Questions tagged [argument-list]
Questions about the usage and the manipulation of the argument list. The argument list is the list of file names you give when starting Vim.
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How to force Vim to delete all the [No Name] buffers?
I often use Vim to manipulate clipboard data.
I create a new buffer :enew
Paste the data in it
Modify the data
Yank it :%y
At the end of my day, I end up with several [No Name] buffers.
I want to ...
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List Vim arguments options
Is there a way to list the command line arguments showed by vim -h or vim --help from within Vim?
Besides :r!vim -h which seems to be a workaround to achieve this.
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"vim /foo:123 -c 'normal! zz'" should open the file '/foo' at line 123 with the cursor centered
When I search for a text with grep it gives the filename followed by a colon and a line number likethis, and then I just double click /foo:123:bar with the mouse:
$ grep -rn bar /
/foo:123:bar
Then I ...
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navigating multiple files - arguments and buffers
I've been learning vi (as an autodidact) for some weeks. Actually I'm not yet sure about if I'm using vi or vim (does the command vi open vim if vim is installed?).
Now I'm trying to edit multiple ...
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Disable E173: X more files to edit warning in neovim
How can I make :q and other standard ways of exiting quit immediately even if E173 would ordinarily have stopped me in my tracks?
Because this doesn't seem possible in regular VIM, how can I do it in ...
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How do I pass multiple optional arguments from custom command to function?
Given a function with two optional arguments
fun s:foo(one = v:false, two = v:false)
echom '<' . a:one . ',' . a:two . '>'
endf
and a custom command calling it
command! -nargs=* Foo call s:...
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Navigate arglist via filename?
I like doing things like :b css to jump to the single css file I'm working on.
But of course this only works if I only have 1 css file in a buffer.
I'm under the impression that it is not possible to ...
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Why argdo applies changes only to the last file?
Given the following files with two trailing spaces at the end:
$ echo "test1 " > test1.txt; echo "test2 " > test2.txt; echo "test3 " > test3.txt
$ hexdump -C *.txt
00000000 74 65 73 74 ...
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Macro doesn't run properly when executed with :bufdo or :argdo
I have a macro that looks like:
:reg a
Type Name Content
c "a /^where^MkV%yGo^M-- Some typing...:^[pVG:!/tmp/t.sh^M
It works fine from any starting position in the file when I replay it ...
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argdo vs bufdo for project-wide search and replace in specific folders
I have the following structure:
myproject
----src
file1.cpp, ..., file10.cpp
----include
incl1.h, ..., incl10.h
----data
data1.txt, ..., data10.txt
I would like to ...
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argument list shows wrong current file
The help for :args states:
*:ar* *:arg* *:args*
:ar[gs] Print the argument list, with the current file in
square brackets.
However, it looks like ...
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Plugin to edit whole datasets/projects
I'm using vim all the time for text editing these days, and have a particular use case: editing a dataset using successive commands. The main problem, as often, is fixing things, ideally rather ...
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Can I define window position/contents via command line arguments ? Maybe a sort of parameterised session file? [duplicate]
I would like to open, say, 4 files and then have windows arranged in a grid so that the first file was in top left, second bottom left, third top right and fourth bottom right.
So a command like this (...
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How to pre-process command line arguments provided to vim?
I want to add support for various formats of filenename with linenumber for vim to understand. E.g. I get output from git grep <keyword> like this:
first/foo.py:123:
first/bar.py:333:
second/foo....
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Use cases of ":rewind"? How does it differ from ":b1"?
After reading :help :rewind
:rew[ind] [++opt] [+cmd]
Start editing the first file in the argument list.
This fails when changes have been made and Vim does
not want to |abandon| the ...
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How to set read only for only one buffer
I'm using vim with some plugins, such as Nerdtree, YCM, to build an coding environment.
Now I want to achieve this:
When I execute the command vim, a file containing some ASCII image, will be loaded ...
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How does double star work in vim?
When I run shopt -s globstar; ls -1 tests/**/Helpers/**/*.php in bash I get:
tests/Helpers/Layout.php
tests/Helpers/Link.php
tests/Helpers/LinksPage.php
tests/Helpers/LiqpayRedirect.php
tests/Helpers/...
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Use the arglist without opening the files
When I use the args command it opens the files:
:args `find . -name \*.html`
I would like to do an operation on the arglist without opening the files at all in a buffer, or either opening them one ...
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How can I see what arguments vim was invoked with?
Is it possible to see what arguments vim was invoked with when it was run?
vim -O foo bar
To show -O foo bar, but especially if there are configurations set like -Z?
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How to add files to argument list without adding them to buffer list?
I would like to run some command on each .js file of project. Argument list seems like a perfect usecase for it.
:arga **/*.js
:argdo 'some_command'
The problem is that using :arga **/*.js adds all ....
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How can i get the arglist count?
I am writing a bash script about session management and what I want is if there's something in the arglist not to source the session.
But I couldn't find a way to check the length of :args
First of ...
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How to call the fzf Ag command with multiple arguments?
The plugin fzf.vim defines the following vim command here:
command! -bang -nargs=* Ag call fzf#vim#ag(<q-args>, <bang>0)'
the fzt#vim#ag function seems to allow passing all the ag ...
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how to use the number returned by arglistid()
In the doc little is said about this number. Can we retrieve the entire arglist using this number and get all the versions of arglist?
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Handling Complex Arguments in a Vim Command
I am working on a VIM plugin that will require a certain level of complexity for handling arguments passed to a command.
:MyCommand -item=banana -command=ls\-ltra -pattern=./*
However, I am not sure ...
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Exiting back to normal mode in terminal buffer from Vimscript
<C-\><C-n> is working as (I'd) exepected, but not from a Vimscript.
I am trying to make a script that will:
open Neovim's :terminal
run a python script
exit from the terminal input mode
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Passing a # character to the shell in vimscript?
In my previous question, I passed an argument into a Vimscript function and concatenated it into the command line. This works great, but when you pass a string that contains the # character, it balks ...
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Can I run -c in batch mode (without opening the curses display)?
I find myself performing a small shell loop (involving vim) to transform files into the correct line endings for my system. It looks as follows:
for i in *; do vim -c 'set ff=dos' -c 'wq' $i; done
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How to remove lines matching pattern in all files changed in one editing session?
I'm trying to create function and a mapping to insert/remove breakpoints in python code.
So far I got this
function! AddBreakPoint()
let l:line = line('.')
let l:indentChar = ' '
call ...
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Is is possible to change the order of the argument list?
When I have multiple files in the argument list, can I rearrange the order of the list?
For example
:args
[A.md] B.md C.md D.md E.md F.md
is there a command/series of commands that gives me
:args
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Is it possible to add a file to the argument list with in netrw?
I am a heavy user of the argument list and I always have the files which are important for my current task in it.
Now I started to use netrw more often to search through the files system.
But I can't ...
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