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I'd like the character under my cursor to always be black in normal mode, so it contrasts with the cursor. I'm using windows terminal, which doesn't support this directly, and vim (not gvim), so guifg ...

I've got a new PC and I've compiled vim from source, and copied my .vimrc and plugins from an older machine. Unfortunately the plugins are not loaded. Neither automatically, nor with packadd command. ...

So I have to follow a name convention for my C data types : Typedefs must start with a t_ prefix such a t_mytype. Structs must start with a with an s_ prefix and so on for other data types. So I added ...

Is there a way to make Vim display confirmation prompts in French but error messages in English? I have gotten very used to responding to the French confirmation prompts. A change to English would ...

I am trying to re-indent a foo.html.erb file, however when I do gg=G everything gets aligned to the beginning of the line. I couldn't figure out why that happens. I've tried installing polyglot or ...

I use vims autoformat feature a lot. But it doesn't work properly for postgres CREATE TABLE foo (fooid INT, foosubid INT, fooname TEXT); INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1, 2, 'three'); INSERT INTO foo VALUES (...

When I am working in vi there pop up things that look like uninterpreted escape sequences. They come for example when I type i to enter insert mode, or ESC to leave it Example, triggered by typing i ...

Is there a way to show showbreak character at the end of the line that is wrapping, not at the beginning of the next one? 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur \ adipiscing elit, sed do ...

Is it possible to remap comma in select mode to exit select mode, enter insert mode, [optionally: go the end of the last selection (which the cursor seems to be for ultisnips)] and append a comma? ...

I am using iterm2 and enjoy using vim terminal vim within it. A really annoying issue i'm having is that when writing python .py files and compiling using commands like: :!python % The code compiles ...

How can I configure following behavior in nvim through ftplugin file, as soon as I open a specific file (eg .clj files), I wish to automatically in vertical split on RHS start a terminal buffer ...

In insert mode, scope indentation is not taken into account if I navigate rows during insert mode. Example: In such a case, if I would press the up arrow key, Vim would place my caret at the start of ...

I just installed the jellybean theme and when I opened a random cpp file I got a black area that disappears when a new line is added, like in this picture: How do I prevent the black area from ...

Let's say I have a file that contains a specific number that is always the same, something like the following: 1 1000 10 1000 100 1000 1000 1000 10000 1000 100000 1000 1000000 1000 10000000 1000 ...

Currently we can use many different languages to write a (neo)vim plugin. I heard that the vim language is actually pretty slow which was surprising me. I don't have the links of the websites anymore ...

I have files which are encrypted by vim. From the command line, how can I determine which encryption method was used on a given file?

With chansend function I can send any keys to neovim terminal buffer and execute any commands. ex: chansend(<job_id>, 'ls\n') But the buffer doesn't scroll automatically...(Of course, I can ...

I have a vimrc file. In that file i have the following two lines. noremap gg :silent exec "!/home/john/gf.sh /home/john/guides/"<enter><C-L> nmap gh tlet @"=system('perl /...

vimwiki's help docs, and this answer, both explain how to set g:vimwiki_folding so that list folding is enabled: let g:vimwiki_folding='list' But a few lines down in the docs, I've followed ...

I have set up Vim-Airline, but Vim-Airline-Tabline's tab seperator is showing vertically rather than as arrows. My tabline: Expected tabline: init.vim relating to airline: let g:...

If I type 2daW, I can delete the current Word and the next (though I can't really see that case covered in the manual). Is there a way to visual-select around two words? I tried 2vaW, but of course (...

I have this set of maps: nnoremap <C-s> :^[:w snoremap <C-s> <Esc>:w<Return>v<C-o> xnoremap <C-s> <Esc>:w<Return>v inoremap <C-s> <Esc>:w&...

Background colors in the status line (and elsewhere in vim) are not displaying. This may be because I am using someone else's Lightline config, but it looks quite different to what I am seeing. My ...

I am using vim as a book reader. For this purpose I have three windows open as shown ________________________________________ |~ ||The book I'm||~ | |~ ||reading ...

I was looking at the documentation for search() (:help search()). I noticed that there is a "z" flag: 'z'    start searching at the cursor column instead of zero When the 'z' flag is not ...

I have multiple interesting buffers in my jumplist, but I would like to view two of them side-by-side. How would you do that? That's the general case of this question. In my particular case, it is ...

I've discovered I can execute vim macros from the command line using the following command: vim myfile -c "argdo norm @aZZ" This command executed from the command line will execute a macro ...

This question is a sort of follow-up to this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66466202/how-to-go-back-in-vim-to-last-cursor-position, which asks how to be able to do something like 17j and then ...

I have seen that the .vim directory is in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/, but it isn't. The closest I can find is /etc/vim/, but that does not contain what I need (namely, init.vim). Am I missing something? I am ...

Since I usually use a blank line to denote start of a new codeblock (function, class, etc.) I defined the following syntax rule. The intent is to make the first line of a code block standout. While ...

I have the following command for arranging a few lines in a file using sed and column: :-3,+2!sed 's/- 2021/\&2021/' | sed 's/ 2021/\&2021/' | column -s '&' -t This works fine. For ...

Say we have the following: echo 'This is a test'.$test1.$test2.$test3.$test4.$test5.'and this is another test'; ^ With the cursor being on the first dollar sign, and I want to ...

I use vim splits quite a bit. To switch faster, I use this shortcut instead of doing ctrl + w + h/j/k/l/ " Quicker window movement nnoremap <C-j> <C-w>j nnoremap <C-k> <C-w&...

I want to know how to call a function after a normal or Ex command. Examples: bind a function to search command. When I input /xxxx to search xxxx, also call the function. press * to highlight ...

I have a popup_menu. I want to have the second, for example, option chosen when it opens, rather than the first. Is this possible? I've looked in various threads on the internet and :help popup and ...

I am using gvim. I have checked the location of the RUNTIMEFILE with :echo $RUNTIMEFILE and found that is is located in c:\Programme\vim\vim82. The file _gvimrc is there indeed. However, I do not have ...

Is it possible to highlight unicode characters? When I copy/paste a code sample I sometimes run into problems because the website uses ‐, ‑, ‒ or – instead of - or some other characters that are hard ...

I want to highlight breakpoint() - including brackets as keywords in Python files. I have added these two commands to my .vimrc: highlight link PyBreakpoint Keyword call matchadd("...

all these works git show bf5500a8 | vim -R - vim file1 file2 -O git show bf5500a8 > tmpfile ; vim tmpfile file2 -O ; rm tmpfile but I'd like to know if I can open stdout and other file ...

I use ctags -R * to generate tag files. I have tried exuberant-ctags and universal-ctags. In a c function, I define a local variable, but ctags cannot find the definition of the local variable. Is ...

I haven't been able to find any syntax highlighting for MIPS assembly language. I have CoC installed, but I don't think it supports MIPS. Is there any other plugin that I could use for basic syntax ...

Goal I'm trying to create a commit buffer: write text, save to commit, show errors in new buffer on failure. Progress I'm having trouble with the last step. I figured I'd use bufhidden=wipe and ...

I'm trying to get Neovim to work in Git bash. When I type nvim in cmd, everything works as expected and it opens Neovim, when I do the same in the Git bash, the whole editor just turns blank until I ...

I would like to prepend clear; to all commands in terminal mode. This reduces the amount of 'clutter' in my terminal screen and makes things slightly clearer for me.

After setting up coc.nvim and adding the extension coc-pyright, I'm getting the following import warnings/errors: reportMissingModuleSource reportMissingImports As stated here it's possible to add a ...

When I select a section of text within a line, then indicate I want to substitute on that line with :s, the result is that the entire line is affected. In order to actually do what I intend, I have to ...

Is it possible to declare a function only for a specific filetype? Currently, if I have the following in ftplugin/tex.vim: function! Foo() echom "yes" endfunction Then when I load a *....

I'm new to VIM and I'm loving it. I'm learning slowly but surely. I've passed the point where there's enough benefit and not too much hassle. I'm using the VS code integration. I'm learning VIM (...

In notepad, whenever you hit tab, it will take up all the space up until the next "column". | | | | | # lets say these are the columns sdf f # Pressing "...

Having this strange problem, where when I do vim ...some_file... The shell will freeze until I send a signal <Ctrl + C>, and then the vim opens up properly. I haven't touched anything (.vimrc, ....