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I've been trying to utilize Vim to do more writing so I tried to install LanuageTool and a related vim plugin: https://github.com/dpelle/vim-LanguageTool/ However, even after specifying the location ...

I am using vim under Ubuntu under the windows WLS. When I edit SQL files, only inside comments - the word "note" is always highlighted with a background yellow color. This includes, for ...

What is the difference between == and is; ==# and is#; ==? and is? when checking whether or not two strings are equal? Sometimes I see foo is# 'bar', and I wonder whether or not it is always ...

Suppose I have the following line of text in vim: hello, it will be sunny today and I want to change it to: goodbye, it will be sunny tomorrow I could put my cursor on the line and type :s/hello/...

I know how to show absolute as well as cursor-relative line numbers but I do not need to see each line number and they look too crowded. I would like to just see line numbers at an interval, say every ...

I know you can run a command upon entering a filetype with... au! Filetype foo echo "bar" but what can I use to run this command when I leave this filetype?

I launch vim with two files. I can move from one file to the other by :bp or :bn quite happily. But as soon as I make a change to file1 it won't allow me to move to the other buffer unless I save the ...

I use vifm in split mode - it always shows two vertically separated windows each with a directory listing. From there I can open files using the right arrow. However when I open a text file, vifm goes ...

If i have something like foo( 'parameter' ) and I press ya' with the cursor somewhere inside the parameter string then the indentation space gets yanked too and I end up with 'parameter' in my * ...

I want to annotate words /sentences for a "named entity recognition" purpose; inside a text file, I want to annotating words or sentences with this format [pattern](label): [a word where the ...

I'm looking for a word/sentence annotation tool/plugin to be used INSIDE vim editor. Specifically I'm looking for a cli tool NER (named entity) tagging. Any idea/suggestion/tip? By example, I would ...

Ive had no luck solving these issues for quite a while now. Problem1 When writing HTML inside a string in a file with filetype=php, the HTML is not recognized (i.e., it has no highlighting or indent). ...

I've got the following in my vim config: map <leader>ot :call OT()<cr> function! OT() let fname = input("ot: ", "", "file") let res = system("ot ...

I'm trying to map commands that are used with the vim surround plugin. Using vim surround you can type ysiW], for example, while in normal mode and it will surround the word at the cursor with ...

I want to scroll the Terminal inside NeoVim, but it looks like this: That is, since I opened NeoVim inside tmux, and in tmux it "scroll" entire pane. And is there any recommended shortcuts ...

I run a sourced vimscript like this: exec 'g#' . WE_var_searchmode . ' ' . WE_var_pattertosearch . '#exec " A | B | C | make_CTRL-C | ... | LAST " ' The outer execute '...' is needed to ...

I write a lot of Vim plugins. When I make an edit to a plugin's .vim file, I'll often just quit Vim and restart it to test it. In some cases, I would like to avoid quitting and restarting Vim. I ...

I have two plugins (todo.txt-vim and vim-buffergator) that both map the <localleader>b command (for .txt files at least). One plugin ended up dominating the other. I solved this by removing the ...

I have a typical python project structure: ├── requirements.txt └── src.py where requirements.txt is holding the requirements of my project, and src.py has my code. In my minimal example, they look ...

:help errorformat lists the basic items supported in 'errorformat' and one of them is: %*{conv} any scanf non-assignable conversion What does that mean and how can I use it? The fscanf ...

When a vim script is to be watched for errors and interrupts, try is put somewhere near the beginning and catch after a long sequence of code. In this sequence of code it is very probable to have some ...

I edit a lot of files using netrw in gvim. Sometimes, when I mash C-s to save, it will hang my vim session. I'm not sure if this is because of a network error, or because I also sometimes hit C-z at ...

Is there a way to prevent cursor to search forward when using the * or /? I just want to highlight the word I am on & others, but not move to forward nor backward.

Add customise filetype setting file do.vim inside ftdetect folder. Edit gvim/8.2/share/vim/vim82/filetype.vim: runtime! $HOME/.vim/ftdetect/*.vim Open file, run verbose set ft?. From print, filetype ...

I've created the following script on my vimrc file: function! ExecuteOnTerminal() if (&ft=='javascript') :%terminal node elseif (&ft=='sh') :%terminal bash elseif (...

I want to override NetRW's response to <CR>. When I hit enter, I want to: get the path of the file or directory of the line with the cursor in the :Lex window test if path is a file if the ...

I was looking for ways to search and replace on even/odd numbered lines in vim and I came across some solution on google groups https://groups.google.com/g/comp.editors/c/xk9DMoszgq4. To search and ...

If I do gg=G on a file with the following text - 2018-2019 ICPC Northwestern European Regional Programming Contest (NWERC 2018) - 2020 ICPC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Programming Contest - ...

was hoping someone could help me in changing the color of the ruler in vim? Specifically, the opacity as I'm trying to make it match the rest of my vim opacity, but can't seem to pinpoint where ...

I want to bind Control+Backspace in insert mode to delete a word. I'm able to bind Control+Del in both insert and normal modes, but I can only seem to bind Control+Del in normal mode. I've checked ...

I've been trying to install this package called nerdTree-visual-selection. It is a package that 'defines key mappings that will work on nodes contained in a Visual selection in NERDTree'. It was weird ...

How to setup Vim so you can f.e mouse click in the middle of new opened empty Vim window and place cursor exactly there ( f.e line 23 char 49), instead of line 1 char 1 because? Is there better way ...

From a sourced file I am running my vim script. The aim of the script is to run :global. I am searching for \\%(pattern1.*/)\@<!pattern2 The patterns are variables, so I use execute; for the work ...

After copying text to the system keyboard clipboard in vim, I'm unable to paste the text after exiting vim. I find this behavior frustrating, since I often copy text in files to paste it on the ...

The only time the mouse does not select the numbers when mouse is set is if mouse is set to v. But you cant copy the text with right click or menu key.

I know that I can create shortcuts on a vimrc file like the following: :map <C-W> :w<CR> However, let's say I have some different commands that I can execute on my shell: notify-send &...

Currently: I have some key binding A → ^X^O (in insert mode) to omni-complete something I have some key binding B → ^Ogj to temporarily do something in normal mode (in this case, move down a display ...

I am trying to configure nvim-cmp (https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp), by adding the following lines to ~/.config/nvim/lua/lsp-config.lua. After this, when I start nvim, I get an error as shown in ...

I have read through a lot of the posts on spell checking LaTeX syntax - here, here, and here. I am sure the problem is my lack of regex understanding, but I am having trouble configuring it so that ...

I want to achieve following. Imagine I have a line of code, say: std::cout << "STEP #0" << "\r\n"; Now I want to paste it somewhere else, but I want to stay cursor in ...

I have an autocommand on ExitPre like this: autocmd ExitPre * call PromptSaveSession() I'd like to avoid prompting to save the session if vim was forcefully exited, e.g. ':q!' or ':qa!'. Is there a ...

I did select a few blocks and wanted to move it but i could only move the entire line not just the block i selected. How do i accomplish it?

Generally when opening more than two or three files in vim, I use a single split, navigating between the files/buffers with :n/:N. Sometimes, however, I want to open all of them in visible splits at ...

I'm using Poetry to manage my virtual environments for Python and I'm using Vimspector as a debugger plugin for Vim. How can I use the Poetry venv when starting debugging? I'm thinking that all that ...

Upon compiling a large Latex file with "\ll" inside Vim that contains on purpose an latex command typo (using $\relta$ instead of $\Delta$) I get 3 windows (with the Vim look and feel -- ...

I want to run some command-mode commands when I first open neovim. How to do it? For example the command I want to run is: :IndentBlanklineEnable

If I change the colorscheme by <option>+12345 :colorscheme newsprint Then when I will firstly got the expected result: But then if I move my cursor by j/k, the clean cursorline gone: I can ...

I have the following in after/ftplugin/vimwiki.vim setlocal foldmethod=expr setlocal foldenable set foldexpr=VimwikiFoldLevelCustom(v:lnum) I know this file is loading because if I put a syntax ...

I visited another city and forgot to bring my laptop. A friend offered to let me use his Windows 10 account, but without installing anything (including cygwin from a non-administrator account). It's ...

I would like to tag lines with a certain text property and then sort all lines with that text property to come to the top. How can I sort based on having a text property rather than a pattern match?