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So I have a BASH script I'm modifying and I've been noticing large blocks of script with broken syntax highlighting. They appear as though I have an unpaired double quote somewhere, despite all quotes ...

I am copying multiple lines from different parts. I can for example do 3yy to copy the 3 next lines. Then I would like to scroll a bit and add 5 more lines: 5yy and so on. At the end, I want to paste ...

I have installed gruvbox using vim-plug, then I installed Airline and set the theme following the recommendations. But every time I close Vim and open it, the theme for Airline is reset to default and ...

Is there any existing plugin or gist somewhere that would allow you to embed one text file inside another? Ideally it'd also allow editing the embedded file from the file in which it is embedded. ...

I'm quite new to the VIM scene but I already love it! However, I'm running into a problem with a theme I have created. I'm not really sure how to solve the problems since it is working on Windows, I'm ...

I wanted an easy way to resize the font in gvim (GTK), so I found this post: Quickly switch between fonts at runtime I created the following bindings based on that post: let g:fc_list = [ \ ...

I seem to be unable to undo something in a file I saved, despite that the history of changes shows up with I press :changes. So the change history is known to vim but I cannot access it? I thought it ...

Just had a quick (and probably stupid) question about indentation. When I try editing a script, one of my settings seems to "freeze" the indentation several tabs in, and I can't figure out ...

I've been using the command mode for making replacements in a file. Something like :%s/foo/bar/g and to make a series of replacements: :%s/i/1/g | :%s/j/2/g | :%s/k/3/g | :%s/l/4/g | ... This line ...

Imagine I have a file as follows, 10 10 10 11 ... 10 20 20 20 20 21 ... 20 40 40 40 40 41 ... I know simple regex such as To search two numbers /\d\+ \d\+ To search repeated numbers /\(\d\+\) \1 My ...

I created :term, then I switch to another viewport, but latter when I switch back to the term buffer "!/bin/bash" it is full screen and I don't understand how can I access the vim command ...

When I search for something /search-term and it shows up more than 100 times in my file, vim shows me that I'm on match x/>99 instead of x/121 etc. For smaller numbers it shows me the exact number ...

<C-x><C-o> returns Pattern not found in C/C++ files even with a ctags file. It used to work and I haven't made any configuration/plugin changes that I know of Starting vim with vim -u ...

I am on Ubuntu 14.04.3 and Vim 8.2. I'm trying to figure out how to access either the * or + clipboard on Ubuntu but it seems like it doesn't exist? After doing "*yy and "+yy on lines of ...

I search a way to paste/merge 2 block of text block A apple pear banana block B tomato beans potato to this apple tomato pear beans banana potato I'm looking for an easy way to do this using macros....

Occasionally, when I use <c-w>, the cursor will simply move to the end of the word. If I then immediately press <b>, the word is deleted and I'm placed into insert mode (as expected from &...

Given the limited screen real estate on my device (27x48), I'm trying set laststatus=1 set rulerformat=%25(%<%f%M\ %=%l\|%c%) No matter the minwid prefix, or if I apply it to %() or %f, or if I ...

I have the following in my .vimrc to indent the whole file: nnoremap cu gg=G`` I have a problem using this in source files that have #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif // code #ifdef ...

So i have a bunch of files in a directory. I'm editing another file which have broken links/reference to these same files, and i want to edit them. There isn't too much so doing it manually wouldn't ...

I would like to change the color of part of the command line, the stuff that's echo'd from vim scripts. I know it can be different since when your search hits the bottom it prints a message in red ...

Is it possible to make the nvim terminal always automatically scroll down so you can see the latest messages? For example I have my vim editor setup like this On the button half of the screen I have ...

I'm a long time Vim user but a few months back started dabbling in Emacs. One of the things I really liked about Emacs was when doing a find/replace s/you/me it would highlight the word I was ...

I want to open a file invisibly such that I can operate using normal (programmatic) commands on it. How can it be achieved? Preferably, it should be hidden from the beginning. Thanks

I'm looking to be able to close a terminal buffer without unloading it, as I would with a normal buffer and either hidden or bufhidden=hide set. It appears, though, that said options are ignored for ...

I know that by pressing s, I can delete a character and enter insert mode. How do I do the same for words. Is there an equivalent to s for deleting a word and entering insert mode?

In complex files, especially when writing packages with basic TeX-LaTeX code, the standard definition of foldmarker, namely {{{,}}}, is unfortunate — in effect is quite common to have pieces of code ...

I am aware of {and } to navigate between blocks of texts , however these jump to blank lines in between blocks of text. When there are several blank lines in between 2 blocks of text these do not ...

What approach would be preferred to allow a cmd-s to trigger a save, regardless of mode: " Allow i,c to call normal mode noremap <leader>S :silent call SaveFile()<CR>asdfidfo ...

I have a shortcut -- ⌘s to save a file. If it's not a vim file it will just run a :w, and if it hasn't been saved to a file yet it will ask the user for a filepath or name. However, if it's a vim file,...

To run an autocommand on a python file I can do: :autocmd FileType python nnoremap ... However, what 'event' does this run on? Is the event FileType or is Filetype python basically doing a ...

Occasionally, I need to type documents in Russian in LaTeX format. To use Russian in vim I follow the guidelines from this Habr post. In short, I have the following settings in my .vimrc file: set ...

I’m using this plugin and find it useful with its regrex search and as it’s not updated recently, I find that when I map it to / to replace default function search of vim and then try to paste text ...

I have a Vim Session file I created by doing: :mksession Then I quit Vim. I then downloaded a plugin to: ${HOME}/.vim/pack/vendor/start/vim-markdown-folding and then I fired up Vim with the session ...

In the following autocmd: " Default filetype, color if unrecognized (like a text file to write notes) augroup DefaultFiletype autocmd! autocmd BufRead, BufNewFile *.txt set ft=markdown ...

What is the difference between the following two ways of calling a function/method in vimscript? " This seems to always work call add (events, e) " This seems to occasionally work events-&...

I'm having a hard time understanding why the following equivalence produces two different results: echom a:events == '*' echom string(a:events) == '*' The first one returns 1 while the second one ...

When logging autocommand events, I came across a few ones that seem a bit strange: User -- seems to be logged very frequently, though the vim help really only mentions "it's not a real event and ...

I have the following script to log various events: augroup EventLogger autocmd! autocmd! BufWrite,BufEnter,User * call LogOutput(" getEventType() ") augroup END How would I ...

Is it possible to suppress the output of a register? For example, I am using getchar() to 'consume' a character, but I don't need it to return anything. I suppose I could add in a hackish ternary ...

In using an iabbrev, vim help gives the following example of how it can be used to ignore the character after typing in the keyword: Towards the bottom of Abbreviations: You can even do more ...

I have the following command which defines an iabbrev: if !snips_installed augroup VimLogger autocmd! autocmd Filetype vim iabbrev <buffer> log hello!! augroup END endif ...

Is there a verbose mode that shows when each of the various events fire? For example, I'm looking for something where I can use vim in the normal course of operations and see which events are being ...

If I want to check weather I (or a plugin) have mapped some key, I can simply use the :map command and check it's output. How do I access and check this this output from inside a vim script? Or is ...

To get the most recent command I can do: :<ctrl-p> Or: :<up> However, this will also show commands that might have been typed in, but weren't run, for example, I may recently typed in: :...

I am trying to use the omnicomplete. It is quite simple to use in insert mode, but I'm having a hard time using it from a function. Here is what I have so far: " Cmd-. to autocomplete tags, ...

How does the following regex (or is it a regex?) work: au BufWinEnter,BufRead ?* loadview I believe that ?* makes sure that the filepath has at least one character, but why isn't this then just .. ...

Is the following a properly scoped autocommand to work on HTML files? " Option-space as &nbsp; in html augroup HTML autocmd! autocmd FileType html,htmldjango inoremap <buffer> &...

What would be the following vim regex to get the word term in: hello my*term*here My thought was: *\zs[^*]\ze* But it seems like there are some things I need to escape here that aren't working. The ...

I have two functions tex#PDFOpen() and tex#PDFClose() to automatically open and close the pdf file created by a TeX document. The way I assign them to autocommands is via the following autogroup in ~/....

I have set foldtext like this: set foldtext=NeatFoldText() Is there a way to: view what the default value is for a option? reset option to its default value (without having to exit/re-enter vim)