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I have this mapping in my .vimrc: nnoremap gd :YcmCompleter GoToDefinitionElseDeclaration nnoremap gf :tab split \| YcmCompleter GoToDefinition<CR> When I press gd, it writes the command :...

My init.vim code cd ~/Documents/cp set backupdir=~/Documents/cp/vimtmp// set directory=~/Documents/cp/vimtmp// set undodir=~/Documents/cp/vimtmp// set viewdir=~/Documents/cp/vimtmp// augroup ...

Is it possible to combine the two commands map <F5> :w<CR>:exec '!python' shellescape(@%, 1)<CR> map <F6> :w<CR>:exec '!poetry run'<CR> so that when I press F5, it ...

I'm new to Vim, and I've read that a best practice in Vim is to begin a new Append with each line. In other words, instead of pressing <Enter>, it is more advisable to leave Insert mode, and ...

Im using TabNine YCM fork vim plugin. I'm getting cool suggestions and all, but it's super annoying that it doesn't <Enter> when it should, instead, outputs NULL ASCII Code ^@ Is this related ...

I'm trying to write a function to open a split terminal in Vim and then run the current file in that terminal. A non-working example trying to explain what I'm trying to do is function! Foo() :bel ...

In a Python file, my first line is: from flask import Flask Which triggers an error in the gutter that shows the following message when I drag the cursor over that line: Cannot find implementation or ...

I have 2 perl files opened in vim. A test file test.pl and another perl file Cbonusstat_TEC_bearb.pl. I made a session to save the environment. If I open vim with the session, the two files are loaded....

I need to replace multiple lines using vi. For example, any numbers_Apple to Apple 0001_Apple 0010_Apple 1021_Apple … 8383_Apple to Apple

I use vimtex although I am by no means an expert in Vim, so it may be that I'm missing something obvious. Anyway, I am looking for functionality similar to that of 'cse, csc, csd' (which change the ...

I have multiple versions of python on my ubuntu system, python2.7 which is default one and i have installed python3.8. I have a python module installed in python3.8 which is not installed in python2.7....

I am building my personal and little distro of vim. I've just installed few plugins using this installer: The vimrc file " encoding set encoding=utf-8 " Tabs and spaces set expandtab set ...

After downloading YouCompleteMe from ubuntu repositories and installing it I have used this script as extra config. I suppose this config may help me with in-headers functions auto-completion. :...

I have nnoremap Y y$ in my .vimrc. If I type "*y$, my cursor stays in the same spot on a word. However if I type, "*Y, the cursor is advanced one character. Why is that?

These exist with lambdas function A() let B = { -> 'thing' } endfunction // B does no exist But the lambda returns a value and not a sequence of commands. (I know I could put execute("..&...

I want to run an async command and when it completes open a terminal window. Since the opening is delayed, I don't want it to steal input from me, so the new window should be in Terminal-Normal mode. ...

I have set autoindent in my vimrc at the moment, and it's working how I wanted. However, if I skip over a line that it has auto-indented, the indents are removed after I hit enter or move with the ...

When I open neovim, an empty buffer is shown with nvim-tree to the right. When I open any file, whether it's with :e or nvim-tree's mappings, the empty buffer remains open and a new one is opened with ...

Today I shared my screen with my teacher and she saw me using neovim to edit text and for programming. The exact time she saw I ran the neovim command to open a file, she immediately facepalmmed (she ...

I wanted to add vim devicons support to Spacevim. I have installed nerdfonts by cloning the git repo and running ./install.sh. I am stuck at actually configuring the nerdfonts in spacevim. In the ...

In my tmux config I have focus-events and monitor-activity enabled to detect any changes that occur in other windows. When I open a vim session in one window and switch to another window, a focus ...

How can I repeat the execution of a macro until a character is encountered? For example (just an example, it's not the original problem I want you to solve) I want to convert a CAPITAL_CAMEL_CASE to ...

In a traditional :python3 plugin, I can call print("msg") to echo a message. In a remote plugin function, I expect that calling vim.async_call(print, "msg") would do this same ...

On Linux, how to uninstall a plugin in Vim 8 other than removing the plugin code using a Linux command line rm command? That is to say, is there a way to remove a plugin while in a Vim 8 session and (...

I'm trying to process large error logs and part of that is filtering out lines I don't need to see. Here's what I'm running in vim: :g/.*rsync: stat.*/d | %s/\(.*mkstemp "\)\(.* \/\)\(.*$\)/\2/ | ...

I want to be able to lint my code from within vim, using tools like clang-format and yapf and I'd rather do this without installing a more complex plugin. I can pipe the current buffer through a text ...

My init.vim code: cd ~/Documents/cp nnoremap <leader>lcd :tabdo lcd %:p:h<cr> suppose, i have 4 tabs opened in nvim via using nvim -p A.cpp B.cpp C.cpp D.cpp A.cpp B.cpp C.cpp D.cpp ...

Using set syntax=lang we can override syntax highlighting of current buffer with lang. Suppose we're editing a Bash script and some string variables are actually HTML code. How to force vim to use ...

EDIT2: A user suggested that I may be going about this in a fundamentally wrong way, in particular in that I am not using remote (new-style) plugins and am trying to use async python code where it ...

I have just noticed on my version of Vim (vim-tiny package on FreeBSD) VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Jul 5 2021 16:53:06) Included patches: 1-3081 Compiled by root@130amd64-quarterly-...

When I open more than one tab, in the top appears a bar with the names of the focused files: but when I close the second tab the bar disappears: How can I keep that top bar always open? I also want ...

I am new to VI. How do you replace two forward slashes with one globally? I did: :%s/\// and :%/\//\/g Those don't work as desired. Example or Goal //This is good//because it//works; //on every//...

I am trying to modify Vim's syntax highlighting rules for Python to suit specific needs : in particular, I need to capture all the line after some regexps (^Out [.*]: and ^\h\w*Error:). After some ...

I searched this issue on the web to no avail and it's most likely not here too. The issue I'm facing goes like this I am trying to switch to vim since I find it cool. I was writing my vimrc and ...

I am wondering how to open a file or load it into a buffer using the index shown by :scriptnames? 23: /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/tarPlugin.vim 24: /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/tohtml.vim 25: /usr/...

the simple why to remap key in lua is: vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', 'foo', 'bar', { noremap = true, silent = true }) but i want a simple syntax like vimScript: nnoremap foo bar n_keymap('foo','bar') ...

I often need to delineate "sections" of source code files using a comment character to create horizontal lines. For example if I wanted to draw such a line in a python file I could do :Hline ...

I frequently use EasyAlign in my tex files to align tables around the $ delimiter such that this header1 & header2 & header3 \\ data1 & data2 & data3 \\ becomes this header1 & ...

I have a tmux + vim setup in which I use split panes. Every time I press ctrl+w to move between the vim panes, my vim instance becomes completely unresponsive. At first I thought this was a tmux issue ...

I've recently switched to neovim (NVIM v0.4.4) from vim. Previously in my .vimrc file I had these two mappings that allowed me to run javascript and c++ files inside vim. nnoremap <f4> :!node %&...

So this is a continuation of my adventures into creating my first plugin ;-) Today's issue is that I want to execute some shell command, and redirect the output to a separate window that respects my ...

It is possible to modify buffer at the line granularity. E.g. :py3 vim.current.buffer[0] = "abc". But it deletes the attached marks even if a single character is replaced. Is it possible to ...

I want vim to ignore whitespace copy Default cut x will work same but When i cut one whitespace character or a visual block of whitespaces with x, vim register won't copy like this thread, Vim ...

related to this thread, How can vim tell me which buffer is changed on disk among multiple buffers? My vimrc code set autoread autocmd FocusGained,BufEnter,CursorHold,CursorHoldI * if mode() != 'c' | ...

Disclaimer: I posted part of this question here with a focus on how to use Emacs+ESS, but a solution with vim or neovim is also of interest to me. I'm using Debian Stable (currently Buster) to do my ...

Vim has comma-separated dictionary options like 'comments' and 'listchars': :set comments? comments=s:--[[,m: ,e:]],:-- :set listchars? listchars=tab:⇥ ,trail:␣,extends:⇉,precedes:⇇,nbsp:⚭ Commas ...

I'm using bracket a lot and I'm trying to quickly circle through the bracket in both back and forth with the following mapping: nnoremap 0 f) nnoremap 9 F( Unfortunately, it does not work. Any ...

I don't do tabs, so usually my listchars=tab:▸ ,nbsp:␠,trail:·,precedes:«,extends:» But it gets annoying with some sources. I'd like to subtract tab: from lcs in some filetypes. I've tried setlocal ...

The problem is solved My purpose is that: I use vim to edit my m-file and debug it in Matlab. There is no easy-to-use interface plugin between vim and Matlab in Win10. So I just edit m-file in vim ...

related to this thread Multiple error messages in vim message history How can i define g:errorMessageString as a List? Can anyone help me fix this? i am using this code in my vimrc but i don't know ...