Questions tagged [formatting]
Questions about how to format a file with vim - this includes, but is not limited to, foldings, indents, wrappings, and so on.
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Formatting with par and justified option
I just learnt from a vimcast (#18) that one can format paragraphs justified. This seemed very attractive to me, but I had one problem with it: I use double spaces after the end of sentences to ...
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Format options setting collapses lines
I set up this nifty custom function to help me use Vim for word processing:
func! WordProcessorMode()
setlocal formatoptions=ant
setlocal textwidth=60
setlocal wrapmargin=0
endfu
com! WP ...
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How to wrap plain text honoring existing text indent?
With at least these settings:
expandtab
textwidth=79
sw=4
ts=4
fo=tcq
If I have a long line of text that starts with a * (like a C/javadoc comment) it will honor the current indent level when I gqq, ...
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Neovim format ruby code like rubocop
is there any chance to format code to satisfy rubocop?
By default my neovim is indenting code like that:
class Test
attr_accessor :a, :b, :c,
:d, :e, :f
end
However, it would be nicer to have ...
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Make vim respect custom, defined paragraph when formatting text?
Let's say I have that text in my file:
At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio
dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et
quas molestias ...
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How do I make Vim respect Markdown headers when formating text?
I want to use the combination gggqG to go to the top of the file and format the whole file from there, so that it fits into my 80 col textwidth border.
But when I do, vim ignores my markdown headers. ...
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Text formatting CVS-friendly
I have seen this very interesting article: http://dustycloud.org/blog/vcs-friendly-patchable-document-line-wrapping/ --- basically it is a suggestion for hard-breaking lines of text (for example, in ...
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Reformat within comment
In my vimrc I have the following:
vmap Q gw
nmap Q gwap
set formatoptions+=cj
set formatoptions-=t
This disables automatic text wrapping, and allows me to correctly wrap the paragraph my cursor is ...
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How to align a Latex table that uses \multicolumn?
I want to align a Latex table the way it appears in the final document.
There are various Vim plugins for aligning tables (2, 3, 4), but none of them handle the spanning cell correctly. The code ...
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Can't get autocmd with two events to work
I have the VIM Clang Format Plugin and I would like to format my code every time I save it.
This is in my current .vimrc:
" map to <Leader>cf in C++ code
autocmd FileType c,cpp,objc nnoremap ...
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visual mode gq not reflowing comment block
I am looking for an easy way to reflow blocks of comments (in GO). According to this post I should be able to just run gq on a block and it will reflow automatically, but this doesn't seem to work.
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Unexplained gq indentation issue
I insert this text in Vim:
t tttt ttttttttt tt tttt tt ttt tttttt-tttt-ttttttt
tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt ttttt ttt ttt tttttt
ttttttt tttt ttttttt: ttttttt tt ttttttt, ...
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Remove unecessary indents while keeping the relative indentation
I am looking for a transformation that would change this text:
text
indented
text
double
indented
text
indented
again
to:
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How to temporarily make gq consider hyphen (-) a normal word, to not indent the following lines in the same paragraph
I have tried this in a JavaScript file after disabling smartindent and autoindent options, with textwidth = 80, but it is still the same.
It also happens automatically because of the textwidth option ...
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Hiding text as entered
Is there a way to hide all text that is being entered, just as passwords are hidden? so that the cursor moves but the output is æquivalent to spaces, until the function is turned off? Variants of this ...
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Formatting blocks of "commented out" text
I would like to be able to edit and format blocks of comments (in different markup and programming languages) as if the commenting characters (generally in the beginning of the lines) are ignored.
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Auto Indent (the = key) of C switch block
For the following switch block:
If I select the switch block and apply the auto format command, the = key, I get the following:
The block is formatted correctly in the first image, but it gets ...
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Edit comments as if separate lines?
Is there a way to edit comments so that they will all be aligned without having to align them manually with tab?
i.e., How can I get something like that?
some text %comment
some more text ...
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How to convert code to html **with** arbitrary html page breaks?
Thanks to @BobHyam's question and to @BenjiFischer's answer on the list vim_use@googlegroups.com, I found out how to print to hardcopy while integrating form feeds:
in ~/.vimrc
" ^L
by analogy, ...
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Merge blocks by interleaving lines
Is there a dedicated way to merge two blocks of text by interleaving lines, like passing from this:
a1
a2
a3
a4
b1
b2
b3
b4
to that:
a1
b1
a2
b2
a3
b3
a4
b4
in a few commands?
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Vim "gq" command doesn't recognize Haskell-style comments
I have a Haskell file on VIM with a Haskell-style comment block:
When I select that comment block on visual mode...
And press gq, I expected VIM to format my comment to something like:
But instead, ...
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Is there a way to push existing text left while inserting (e.g., insert right-aligned text)?
In insert mode, typing normally moves the cursor right and pushes text to the right of the cursor farther to the right on the line. I am typing some right-aligned text and am wondering - is there a ...
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Auto-format: wrapping later in line when inserting text
After reading help textwith and help fo-table, I expected that when I set
set textwidth=20 " for demonstration
set formatoptions=tcq
then inserting text would always eventually cause a line to wrap,...
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Using single quotes blows up syntax formatting in .js
Just noticed that using single quotes in javascript blows up automatic formatting sometimes:
See the public/sass/*.sass line:
Double quotes:
gulp.task('compile-sass', function(){
gulp
.src("...
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Blocking changes to read only file
When using Vim to edit a read only file it will just provide a warning the first time it is edited but allow any changes to take place. I can understand this behaviour could be useful for someone ...
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How to prevent vim-jsx from mangling my indentation?
Looks like the issue is caused by vim-jsx.
Given:
componentDidMount: function() { ▐$.ajax({ });
I press enter to move $.ajax onto a new line and the top line folds as well:
componentDidMount: ...
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How to format xml or html's attributes into multiple lines instead of lining up on one line?
I'm using plugin Chiel92/vim-autoformat auto formatting xml files. So the default format program used for xml file is tidy. The way it formats xml file is like below:
<List id='list' items='{/sss}'...
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Indentation with "#." start of paragraph
When I type 1. blah blah blah Vim recognizes the 1. prefix and it indents the rest of the paragraph tidy.
I would like to configure Vim to do the same thing with #. literal prefix, since ReST files ...
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`gq` with left whitespace intact
When I have heredoc and I format it with gq I want it to be aligned in a way so each line starts at the same column like this:
Long text goes here ... 80 chars |
<- ...
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Run macro over a visual selection with line movements
I can find an answer to a similar problem here, however although I can get that example to function I can't get what I want to do to work.
Here is the example text to be edited, a partial section of ...
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Tips for quickly formatting a single line of XML?
I have a log file with lots of web service XML data (example follows). Ideally I would like to just go to a line and type ,x to create pretty formatted XML for readability.
Response XML: <...
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How to set up Vim to work with one sentence per line?
I'm currently writing a lot of plain text (and LaTeX with minimal formatting in paragraphs), and it would be nice if I could set up vim to keep each sentence (for simplicity, text terminated by a '. ',...
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Is there a way to have sidescrolloff behave differently depending if I am end of a line?
I work in two broadly different ways in vim (that are relevant to this question):
I am writing text or markdown-formatted content, writing paragraphs of text. In this case I am generally writing new ...
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How can I make text formatting ignore concealed characters?
Question
Working with text and various markup languages in Vim I have recently experimented with the conceal feature to hide some of the more verbose markup. I switch conceal off when writing and ...
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Change formating of `\im' command in c.vim
I have recently installed the c.vim plugin. The only issue is when I type \im (automatically adds the main function) this is the way how it displays it.
int
main ( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
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How to write vertically?
Lets say I want to produce the following text in my document:
%
% Not Important
% O ------------------------->
% |
% S |
% o |
% m |
% e |
% |
% M |
% s |
% g |
% |
% ...
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How can I get vim to stop putting comments in front of new lines?
I'm editing my .vimrc file, and I am including comments. When I have a comment like this:
" example comment
And then hit enter at the end of the line after finishing the comment, the next line is ...
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How can I reformat a multi-line string in Vim when using the Python filetype?
Let's assume I am editing some Python code in Vim that looks a bit like:
myobj.myfunc("Some string parameter that goes on and on and on and on and sometimes doesn't"
"split ...
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