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I have a syntax I'm trying do make. It's yaml embedded in markdown for use with Hugo. The yaml region is enclosed by --- and this must be at the top of the file. --- [yaml front matter stuff] . . . --...

What I want to do is have two mappings. One mapped to <s-k>, and one mapped to <s-k><s-k>. What happens right now is that if I press <s-k> vim delays for timeoutlenms, and if ...

Is there a way search backward from the cursor for a line that doesn't contain a pattern? For example, many of my lines match the regular expression ^ adding: \i\+. I want to find the first line ...

I started using vim 1 day ago and i installed tpope/vim-pathogen and then vim-airline/vim-airline-themes plugin to use these themes. Then i changed my .vimrc to set up the papercolor theme, powerline ...

I am trying to configure TabNine and Intelephense with coc. I like the autosuggestions offered by TabNine. But Intelephense plugin is enabled, I am seeing suggestions from only Intelephense and not ...

I'm trying to do the following mapping in my vimrc: nnoremap <silent> / :call <SID>FooFunction()<CR><BAR>norm! / But when I press /, instead of running the function and then ...

I am getting some unexpected behavior when trying to run the zip shell command using Vim's job_start(). As an example, suppose I have two images (im1.png and im2.jpg) in the directory /home/username/...

Thanks to a comment on reddit I was able to move my FZF search to a floating window and whilst it looks cool my main gain was that it's faster or at least it feels faster because it's no longer ...

after some tinkering with xprop and window resizing, I'm almost certain it's (neo)vim, not the terminal emulator or the window manager that's shortening the x11 window title name (one of these x11 ...

I often repeat the following commands when I edit code: yy - yank the line gcc - comment out the line (so that I can visually see all the changes later) p - paste back the copied version what I will ...

Just noticed that this doesn't work for me. I have to hit Ctrl-Shift-6 (Ctrl-^) to activate the shortcut. Launching up my Vim it worked just fine so it's not something weird going on with my machine. ...

I have a weird problem with VIM, both at work and at home (2 different computers): When I open a text in VIM, sometimes it is displaying it correctly, sometime not (I'd say 1 every 3 it works fine, ...

I'd like to change the highlight colors for the QuickFixLine highlight group (something like highlight QuickFixLine term=reverse ctermbg=DarkGrey). Sidenote: the QuickFixLine highlight group is the ...

Is there a "good" way to rename the terminal buffer in neovim? I know that renaming is possible with the :file command, and that works fine for current session. The problem with this approach is ...

I'm trying to clean out erroneous entries in my command history. Though I could (in theory) use :call histdel("expression") it would be easier for me to just delete the entries from the .viminfo file. ...

I have two nearly identical very large files (890,000+ rows of exactly 899 characters each fixed length file). On rows 289141-289148 one file has a pipe character in column 38, and the other file has ...

I want to move the cursor to the indentation of the line above or below. As seen from the example below, when I move the cursor down (j), it goes to the start of the line. This is both true for ...

I want to replace the default behavior of the arrows in insert mode, so that they behave like gk and gj, I have used: inoremap <up> <Esc>gka inoremap <down> <Esc>gja But this ...

Suppose I have a defined text object. For example, I have a ii text block which defines all the contiguous lines around the cursor at the same level of indentation or deeper. I know what it means to, ...

I need to test a vim plugin. The problem: I already have my vim setup in current env, so ~/.vimrc is occupied. I want to issue a command like vim -u <blah..blah> that maybe specifies the plugin ...

I am new to vim, I just wonder if I want to actually type the keyword in some cases, how do I do it? Do I need to disable the snippets? For example, if I use impd as keyword for import pandas as pd, ...

When i do a ls -l /usr/bin/vimdifff it shows following /usr/bin/vimdiff -> vim Does this mean vimdiff and vim are the same? I know that we can use vim for diff by giving -d. But how does linking ...

I would like to change it to make something like a separator between !python % Change this(my computer is in spanish): To something like: Hello World --------------- Hello World --------------- ...

Is there any way to take a fileencoding setting (for instance utf8 or cp1252) that you might set and find out what it's valid hex range is? When a character falls outside the range, it is displayed ...

Select text in vim and convert it to a hex dump... :'<,'>!xxd (Note 2 hex characters represent a single letter...in whatever encoding I did this in...) Select a hex dump in vim and convert it ...

When using nvim with deoplete in typescript code, I see autocompletions. I'm not using nvim-typescript, but will see typescript definitions, but the autocomplete box can only show so much. I've ...

I use :terminal in neovim to run a dev server. But whenever I switch to other opened buffer(s), the terminal kills the process. Is there a way to keep the terminal running in neovim?

I recently upgraded to vim 8.2.0100 on Mac, and the markdown highlighting appears to have changed to be buggy. Here is an example: Normal syntax *Highlighting has started* Highlight continues ...

I want to :map <C-t> :some-ex-command with a space at the end so I can continue typing the command and execute it with enter. I cannot find the syntax for how to do this. I tried :map <C-t&...

So this is my env: Windows 10 fzf (installed via choco), and customized so F3 toggles preview gvim 8.1 Now...this does not work, I get the fzf prompt, but when I hit F3 to preview one file, I get [R ...

I often find myself wanting to open multiple tabs at the same time from within vim. I would like something like this: :tabnew src/Class.* which would open all matching files in separate tabs. Is ...

I often press ESC/^[ to ensure that I've left insert mode and entered normal mode. However, if I'm already in normal mode, Vim displays an annoying flashy screen effect: How can I prevent Vim from ...

I write this line to the ~/.vim/ftplugin/c.vim file, but nothing happens when I create a new C file: autocmd BufNewFile *.c read ~/skeleton/c Afterwards, I added this line to $MYVIMRC: autocmd ...

When working in vim, I like to have a toggle-able terminal window that I can bring with me from tab to tab. This works by tracking tracking a buffer, and opening it in a new bot split if it isn't ...

I am not sure why, but when I tried to create a new java file and paste some java code into it, vim turned them into comments and added additional indentation to the code. 16 // import com.myproject....

Consider the following scenario Content of the buffer: I saw the water in a thermal bath. Commands issued: :set incsearch /th^R^W^R^W^R^W^R^W Result thewaterIII Question What exactly is the ...

I have some text like: INPUT ID : <other stuff> NEWS : maybe blank PROFILE : who knows DEL : xxx END; Then somewhere else I want to put: Begin <stuff> create ...

I'm trying to create a buffer for a specific purpose, and for that, I need to add newlines to it to get it to be the same height as my current window. My first idea, using call append("^", repeat("\r",...

I've been trying to integrate Mathematica with my Vimtex set-up, inspired by this article: https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/ The basic idea is to use UltiSnips to run an operation in Wolfram ...

I'd like to map a button to toggle Vim's background between transparent (to see stuff on other apps) and dark. My current settings I'm using onedark theme. There's currently no other background ...

I use foldmethod=indentbut I hate how it starts each file pre-folded. To get around this I put au BufWinEnter * normal zi in my vimrc. That had worked fine so far, but now that I started using CoC, My ...

I run Vim using both gVim and in terminal. Basically, I want to enable a certain colorscheme in my vimrc but only when in gVim, as the theme looks terrible in terminal. How do I accomplish this?

The default message displayed on the prompt when one saves a file is "<file_name>" <nlines>L, <ncharacters>C written and it remains in the prompt until another message is to be ...

I have a markdown file like this: Irish Bands: 1. U2 2. The Cranberries 3. The Dubliners English Bands: 1. Queen 2. Duran Duran 3. The Beatles American Bands: 1. Nirvana 2. Blondie 3. The Doors I ...

I run a Linux/GNOME laptop where the focus follows the mouse, and I have vim's mousefocus feature turned on, so the selected viewport follows the mouse, too. But when I try to switch viewports using ...

In gVim there's guioptions which lets you disable the gui-specific features. I'm curious if I can configure this in Neovim somehow. If it can't be done across the board, what I want most is it be ...

I'm trying to remove (non-consecutive) duplicate lines in a file I have loaded in vim (without sorting them). In several places on the web I've found the nugget awk '!x[$0]++' as a pipe command that ...

I know it should be easy, but somehow I don’t get it right. I've got a text with artist_id, album_id,... and want to replace them with just id. How do I do that? I tried :%s/[a-z]+_id/id/gc, but ...

I've been doing this: au BufRead,BufWrite * if ! &bin | silent! %s/\s\+$//ge | endif The problem is that it moves the cursor sometimes when I save the file.

I'm using vim-airline plugin for my statusline. Now I want to install kite which suggests adding a section to the statusline. I tried adding using: set statusline+=%{kite#statusline()} but that ...