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Sometimes I type a long substitute command /%s/foo/bar.../ and while I am typing it or only after hiting enter I notice that I have mistakenly used a the search key (/) instead of the ex-command key (...

i have foldmethod=indent on a .sass file. it auto-folds most blocks fine, except for #id selectors, which it folds into the block above it. for example: :root // folds 3 lines below --base-bg: #...

I opened up a document in vim and I want to search the document for IP addresses. So I used this command /[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3} But this pattern doesn't seem to return any of ...

It seems to me it would make more sense to have a :browse oldfiles for the last n sessions you opened up / saved in vim. Is there such a thing?

With Commentary I've set the commentstring for markdown: autocmd FileType markdown setlocal commentstring=<!--\ %s\ --> When I visually select the lines and gc a b c I get <!-- a --> <...

I am trying to set up a shortcut that allows me to start gdb from within neovim while selecting the executable that I want to debug via fzf. Using the following command com! -bar -bang Debugger call ...

Specifically, I'm looking to bind the search /\(<<<<\|====\|>>>>\)/ (i.e. "find the next git merge boundary"). Ideally to <C-/> or <A-/>, but that part I'...

When I open up vim, it starts off with :2R already entered into the command line. I tried commenting out my entire .vimrc, and then it opens up starting in replace mode, with the 2 key pre-pressed (in ...

So I'm using Vim's line numbering with set number set numberwidth=4 But I find that if line numbers exceed 999, then the gutter is automatically expanded to accommodate them. I actually don't want ...

Say I have an indented block like so int main(int argc, char **argv){ printf ("odd numbers between 1 and 10:\n"); // level 1 for (int i = 1; i <= 10 ; i ++) { // ...

rephrased my question based on Matt's answer and Christian's comment: I really like the indentLine plugin that shows vertical lines to visualize indentation levels. However, when using it, it does not ...

Is it possible to configure VIM so that when an attempt is made to edit a file encrypted by VIM, or to encrypt a file, VIM would warn or refuse such action?

I have a folder of third party libraries called add-libraries and the location for this specific library is /home/yapjiahong/projects/cpp/add-libraries/plog/include. I want to write a function called ...

I'm new to vim language and I'd like to see a new tab opening when I hit the enter keyboard on a line containing only a path of a file. When I create a map like this nnoremap <buffer> <cr> ...

I'm trying to create a highlight that changes the text color of a strikethrough syntax, like ~~hello~~ should turn the whole thing gray. Here's what I've put in my vimrc: au BufRead,BufNewFile *.n ...

Whenever I create a file, Vim also creates a .extension~ file. For example, when I create a main.cpp file, another one appears with main.cpp~. Is the .cpp~ file an older version of my .cpp file? Is ...

I am preparing for the Egyptian Olympiad in Informatics and I prefer vim to be my code editor, but my problem is my vimrc, I think it is a bit long to type at the beginning of an onsite competition, ...

I have several instances of variables in a file and I need to modify the variable and append "new" to each of the names. var Modelfrfr = .... var Modeldede = ... var Modelenen = ... ...

I apologise if this seems very basic but I wasn't able to find a satisfactory answer. In my vimrc I want to check if the lightline status bar is loaded and set options accordingly. call plug#begin('~/....

I have simple regex to search for lines that only contain alphabetic characters: ^\(\a\)\{1,}$ which works in normal search /^\(\a\)\{1,}$ but not when invoked from my script: "in .vimrc file: ...

I've found many questions about disabling search highlighting in vim, but couldn't find the way to disable highlighting in location list. As you can see, yellow highlighting is shown on the first ...

The original text: line1 lline2 line I want to add strings into the below format: line1 lline2 x y z line Move cursor at the 2th line,and ctrl+;,enter into ex mode: for s in ['x','y','z'] call ...

I already know that a and i makes the cursor one space to the right and left respectively, but when would I use i to edit a file? Is there some special circumstance that makes insertion mode more ...

When I use the mouse wheel to slide the document, the document does not move at first, but the mouse cursor moves. How can I set the mouse cursor not to move while the document moves, so I don’t have ...

Right now, all my vim files that I create are stored in C:\Users\dinosauce33 (My user). How do I change it so that all of my files that I create are stored in documents?

I have set up some syntax highlights for some patterns, for example: sc.nextInt() nextInt will be highlighted as a Function... Then I have included :set iskeyword+=(,.,) in order for autocompletion ...

I did the following: I downloaded the source files for 0.5.0 open msys2 mingw32-64 install packages: pacman -S \ mingw-w64-x86_64-{gcc,libtool,cmake,make,perl,python2,pkg-config,unibilium} \ ...

Short Question: This is failing. Is it valid syntax? :tabedit scp://[home]/~/stuff/01234567/update/notes.txt Alternatively, can I easily use a longish somewhat complex shell command in vim to get ...

I have this in a buffer: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee with the cursor on the first line. I do :execute 'normal! jV/ddd\<CR>y' which I expect should result in the middle three lines yanked. But what ...

My keyboard layout is set to international american. And to obtain the character ê just press <sfhit+6> e. However, within the vim I need to press <C-k> e>. Is it possible to map <...

I know there is a short cut to make the fill column indicator visible. But I want it visible a most of the time anyway. Can I set an option or call a function to toggle it automatically at startup? I ...

I recently switched to neovim, but ever since my AG usage have acted weird lately. Here is my current .vimrc file. Here is my neovim init file ~/.config/nvim/init.vim: set runtimepath^=~/.vim ...

In order to invert all characters on each line of a range I could think of the following :s/.*/\=list2str(reverse(str2list(getline('.'))))" where I can put a [range] if I want. Is there any ...

I want to have a key binding to yank the current line into the system clipboard. My current mapping is as follows: nnoremap <C-y> "+yy However, this also yanks the newline. I often use ...

I have made a simple function to echo the visually selected text. The function is simplistic as I am only interested in max one-line selection. The problem is, if the last character of the visual ...

Finding the line with a specific character before the last character. Suppose, I have the following string 1. addar_ctrl1,1,2,0,0,1 2. addar_ctrl2,3,2,0,1,0 3. addar_ctrl3,4,8,0,0,0 4. addar_ctrl4,2,6,...

I have a lengthy scriptin that I'm using to help me convert JavaScript files to Typescript. There are about 30 commands defined in it so far: :%s/^\(\s*\)params\.\(\S\+\) = \(.*\);/\1 \2: \3,/ :g/...

I have a file en.utf-8.add in the folder of a file being edited by Vim. I issue :mkspell! en.utf-8.add to create a new en.utf-8.add.spl. In the edited document, the word int is not flagged as a ...

I have defined the following mapping in my bootstrap-before function: nnoremap <F5> <Space>jw I was expecting that pressing F5 would trigger the jump-to-a-word command now. What happens ...

In ex mode,i get the value for set fileencoding. set fileencoding? fileencoding=utf-8 How can assign str with the value utf-8 and print it? let str=`set fileencoding?` #it is a wrong statement,i ...

For example: [[ and ]] instead of [ and ], and G instead of g. Some ideas: Vim used these keys first, and they were backported to Vi (though G seems like an essential command for a code editor) Vi ...

I need to write Rmd files, but I can't imagine life without vimtex. Is there a way that I can use vimtex with Rmd files? Ideally, I would also like to keep the syntax highlighting that I have for Rmd ...

I'm using neovim's builtin lsp client for ccls. It requires a JSON compilation database for parsing the codebase (or something, I dunno). I used to use Bear for generating the compilation database, ...

From time to time, I'll open up a document in vim and find that my manual folds are completely messed up. It's like vim decides to ignore its usual markers and, instead, start interpreting random bits ...

The screenshot of vim-gitgutter clearly shows its author uses some kind of continuation line character when wrap is on. How do I get that? I thought I could find it listed in :help 'listchars', but it'...

Vimwiki table default mappings include <tab> for moving to the next table column in insert mode. Also UltiSnips default mappings include <tab> for expanding snippets in insert mode. Here ...

Sometimes, when faulty outputs from compilations of C++ files/projects are to long, I like to redirect that output to a file, so that I can inspect it side-by-side with each of the offending files in ...

I am currently trying to externally add a new buffer to a vim instance from the command line. That means I have already opened vim and I modify the files of interest to me. Then I want to go back to ...

When viewing a diff of two files in Vim, you can put changes from the source file to the destination file by pressing d then p, or by running :diffput. However, this doesn't work if the change is a ...

When editing xml, lines are indented when pressing (among others) <, > or <CR> according to the indentkeys setting. For example: <tag> </tag| If the cursor is on | and I ...