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278 questions linked to/from How do I debug my vimrc file?
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Can using too many abbreviations slow down vim?
Recently I started using the iabbr to the best of my abilities. While editing a file I may have sourced as many as 500 abbreviations. I have also noticed that my vim is slowing down recently.
The ...
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Strange characters appear after leaving insert mode on Windows
I use Vim v7.4 on a Windows laptop. Recently, I copied my .vimrc from a Mac, only to find that every time I leave insert mode, a sequence of strange characters will appear:
These characters (right ...
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How do I restore visual mode selection highlighting?
Somehow, over the last few days, the visual mode in Vim no longer flips the background highlight, as it used to. Now, if the file is recognized by something it can syntax highlight, it seems to ...
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use comma as leader but keep comma's original functionality as <leader>, (i.e., two commas)
I use a comma as my leader key. I would like to be able to press the comma twice rapidly (i.e., <leader>,) to achieve the native functionality of the comma (i.e., jump back after f/F and ;).
To ...
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Why does Rename fails with Python files if there is no trailing space?
:Rename (from vim-rename) fails with Python files in my current set up with the following error:
line 46:
E486: Pattern not found: \s\+$
if the file does not contain trailing whitespaces in at ...
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Slow startup time unrelated to plugins
When I open vim (or gvim) on MacOS X, the window opens immediately, but there is a pause of about a second before the cursor appears. I've profiled my plugins, but their startup times don't account ...
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Vim slows down with multiple buffers etc
I think noticing a slow redrawing and slow cursor movement on a fastest PC, is one of the popular frustrations with Vim. Here I am as a yet another instance.
I have a fresh installation of VIM, with ...
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Adjust syntax highlighting for region included with syn-include?
I have a terminal color scheme that makes the default highlighting settings for diffs relatively hard to read. To address this, I’ve added my own custom settings inside of ~/.vim/after/syntax/diff.vim:...
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# key causing delay in Neovim
Whenever I input # in Neovim I get delay. I tried to fix this with
nnoremap # <nop>
vnoremap # <nop>
In my init.vim but that seemed to only fix it in non .tex environments. I assume this ...
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First new line in multi-line vim commands has broken highlighting
In my init.vim I have the following command:
nnoremap <Leader>s :echo "hi<" . synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),1),"name")
\ . "> fg<&...
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Wrong abbreviation expansion
I have these abbreviations in my .vimrc:
iab seq sequent
iab seqs sequents
seqs expands to
sequents
i seq sequent
in a tex file (I have installed vim-latex).
In an empty buffer seqs expands ...
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Delay When Closing `:terminal` Window
Long story, short.... Everything's fine on my MacBook, but I have an issue in Neovim 0.9.1 on Windows 10. I see this behavior when
starting nvim from the usual shells - Command Prompt (cmd.exe), ...
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neovim: vim.fn is nil
I have a lua plugins script defining local fn = vim.fn. A couple of lines later it defines local install_path = fn.stdpath('data'). This script is called from my init.vim by lua require('plugins').
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:Telescope commands throw error
My environment:
OS: OSX 11.6 BigSur
nvim: 0.6
I had never used vim telescope before, so this is my first encounter with it. I followed the instructions of installing telescope.nvim and plenary.nvim....
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^O (Ctrl+O) works slowly
In my system, <C-o> works really slowly compared to <C-i> or <C-p>. Is it just my experience or is there a subtle reason behind it?
Is this in any way related to ttimeoutlen? I saw ...
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