Questions tagged [mark]
Question about the navigation in a buffer via the marks mechanism and the general usage of marks.
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Using marks in custom functions/plugins without changing user's marks
I am looking for a way to save and restore marks at the beginning and end of my custom Vimscript function. I am writing a plugin and I don't want my plugin to change any of the user's marks, so I ...
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Is there a way to have somewhat globally persistent marks?
Basically, I like marks.
I'd like to save/keep my marks either in the file, or as a project configuration, is there an extension or a way to do so?
I know that the project or file based settings are ...
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Is there a way to make marks in color or at least visible?
Is there a way to make marks in color or at least visible?
Actually I need to put visible marks on the text (code) in Vim.
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How to yank from EOL, including the last character?
In normal mode, I want to set a mark (ma) and then yank until the end of the line, including the last character ($ and y`a). But $ doesn't include the last character. What is the solution?
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How to "Set previous context mark"?
From the vim manual:
m' or m` Set the previous context mark. This can be jumped to
with the "''" or "``" command (does not move the
cursor, this is ...
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Organize :marks list?
Is there a way to organize / parse the :marks list? E.g. list them in the order they were created, rather than alphabetically. Or see which marks are associated with currently open buffers.
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Deleting between two marks (or, from the previous mark to the cursor)
I'm a long time vi/vim user from college days in the 90s, but never considered myself a power user. I'd like to improve at it and the other day I was staring at something in an Ansible playbook like ...
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Delete all marks except bookmarks in nvim
I use dashboard so I like my marks clean.
So I generally make many marks while working on something and then delete them all except the file bookmark in the end. Is there any way to delete all marks ...
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Quickest Way To Fold Using Marks
I've found if do :set number, I can fold between specific lines x and y with xGzfyG or easier for me xggzfygg. That's great but it's a distraction to find the line numbers as is [visual]zf. I use ...
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How to move marked line to current location
Say I put a mark down somewhere with ma. Then I jump somewhere else, GG3k. I want to move what's at my mark to the current line.
I could have just dd'd it if I'd had some forethought, but is it ...
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Handling multifile projects using portable bookmarks
I am trying to manage multiple projects each with multiple files so:
project1
----src
file1.cpp, ..., file10.cpp
----include
incl1.h, ..., incl10....
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Unmark as foldable
I have recently discovered that it is possible to visually select and mark that selection as foldable through zf. I tend to use zM & zR to toggle the whole foldable text. However, sometimes I want ...
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How do I convert a file mark to a string?
If I for example create a mark inside the file ~/.vimrc with mV.
How do I convert the mark 'V to the path of the file the mark is in?
When I type :marks I can see a list of marks and the corresponding ...
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How to get strings between `[ and `] in lua?
I'm trying to play around with text objects in lua, here's what I got:
https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/33.html
On that webpage, I found that I can operate on the text send to ...
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How to set more than 52 marks?
Possible marks are {a-zA-Z'}. Is there a mechanism to set more of them? The goal is to track certain (modifiable) lines and detect when they are deleted (e.g. with dd).
Background
I am building a UI ...
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Visually selecting from mark to cursor
How can I visually select the area between a mark and the cursor?
According to
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Using_marks
I can yank this range by
y`a yank text to unnamed buffer from cursor to ...
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Marks and insertions of lines
Assuming I have a line such as the following one:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXABCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXABCXXXXXXXXX
mark a is at the first instance of ABC, mark b on the second one.
Now I run a macro on it, breaking the ...
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Efficient copy->paste onto mark
I typically write all my software in the same way (omitting the TDD parts):
Iterate pseudo code until it is granular enough that each part can be written in, hopefully, under 20 minutes.
Implement ...
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Get list of marks inside Vimscript
some time ago, I wrote a small plugin in vimscript that was using builtin function getmarklist. Recently I reinstalled Vim and was surprissed that this plugin no longer worked because Vim couldn't ...
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Is it possible to list only my marks?
When I run :marks it lists all the marks including the standard Vim marks. This is somehow distracting.
Is there a way to list only my marks that I created using m-X for example?
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Is it possible to enter visual mode without changing the last visual selection?
In a script, I want to delete a rectangular block of text. For example, I want to convert this:
ABCD
EFGH
IJKL
MNOP
into this:
ABCD
EH
IL
MNOP
One way to do this is with visual block mode. Move the ...
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Do you know any plugins which allow marks to be longer than one char?
I'm looking for plugin which emulates marks behavior for longer key sequences. I want to be able to mark two distinct files with 3 char mappings and jump to files when sequence is typed. Do you know ...
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Understanding a few of the preset marks
When doing :marks, there are a few marks that show up that I'm not quite sure what they do, even after reading the entry in the help section. For example, the following marks seem a bit obscure (at ...
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Understanding and navigating Mark / Mark not set
Sometimes I enter in characters and my screen shows "Mark not set", and it seems like I have to either press escape or q a bunch of times to get out of that 'mode'. So, related to this:
What does '...
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VimScript - Save specific positions consistently even after buffer changes
I want to save multiple positions in vimscript, and make sure that they stay at the right place, even after the buffer changes
Here are the solutions I found so far, and why I want something else:
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Is it possible to place marks at the end of a line?
Typical mark placement using m places the mark at the cursor. When the cursor is on the last character of a line, this means that jumping to that mark for the purpose of copying text starts the ...
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Jump to where insert mode was entered?
`. seems to take me to where I last left insert mode, but I would like to jump to where my cursor was when I entered insert mode last.
How can I do that?
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Jump back to the position I started a search
I have a small question: let's suppose I'm at the beginning of line 10 and I search a term with the command /term_to_search and then I press <Enter> to start navigating search results with n or ...
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marks between windows
If I make a mark ma in one split pane and then from another I try to jump to it 'a I can't.
I guess marks are stored per-buffer.
Can I store marks per-tab?
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How to make mapping for any mark
I want to make a mapping that jumps to the file of a mark but on the last visited line. Ideally I would write something like this:
nnoremap z<mark> '<mark>`"
Where z is some command ...
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Can I get a visual indicator when I drop a mark?
I like using marks, but I wouldn't mind having a visual indicator of some sort that maybe shows me "you've dropped mark x here", perhaps a letter in the gutter or some sort of line or character ...
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undo mark overwrite [duplicate]
Sometimes I accidentally type ma instead of 'a and overwrite the mark I had at a instead of jumping there.
I know that by default vim has no way to undo an ma, but how can I add this functionality?
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Can capitalized marks be saved in session INSTEAD of viminfo?
Marks are saved in .viminfo
I would like to have separate marks saved per session.
Is there an easy setting to make this switch? I know I could write some vimscript to save my session marks ...
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Why doesn't the cursor return to its original position in this command to create a new line?
I added the following command to my .vimrc, which is designed to insert a blank line below the cursor
nnoremap <leader>o mzo<esc>`z
The sequence of this command is
mark the cursor ...
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difference between marks and tags?
Reading the manuals, seems to me that marks and tags are the same thing, only difference is that mark names can be [a-zA-Z] values, while tags can be alphanumeric. If I'm wrong, what is the difference ...
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Find only between marks
Suppose that I have marks 'a and 'b, and I want to search for all occurrences of foo between them.
The ex command
:'a,'bs/foo/bar
will replace only between 'a and 'b. Is there any command like
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Go to the last cursor position using marks
I like to add marks for move across files but most of the time, I don't care about the line. I want to go on the last position of the cursor.
For example, I have this marks :
:marks
mark line col ...
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Plugin vim-signature: How to change mark column character color?
Currently mark character is bright red as in below screenshot.
How to change it?
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Plugin for showing marks by *highlighting entire line*, instead of using signcolumn?
I write code mostly on my laptop for portability. It's a small monitor, so plugins that use the "sign column" tend to take up too much space. For example, I have my Syntastic plugin configured to ...
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How do I delete a mark in current line?
Lets say I jump to mark with ]' and I want to remove it, how can I do it without typing :delmarks a?
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how to remap backtick mark with single-quote mark globally [duplicate]
I want to swap ' with ` for all combinations of commands in normal mode.
I have tried the following:
nnoremap ' `
nnoremap ` '
It works for commands like '', ``, but failed for d'', y'', etc.
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marks with fullline visualization
There is any solution to highlight the entire line where a mark has been inserted (e.g. with command ma)?
The best could be to have marked each mark with a different color of choice.
Any idea?
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Stop curly braces navigation from leaving marks
When using curly braces navigation, {, }, to move between paragraph, overwrites the "last jump" mark (the one accessible via ''). I would find it more useful if it left this mark untouched. Is there ...
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Is it possible to use the :put Ex command using column numbers?
The documentation for :put says that the command accepts a line. That is, it puts the content after the line specified. Is it possible to put the content at a particular mark?
For example, say I am ...
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Shortcut for applying a command between the last two marks
When I first started using Vim 10 years ago, I found myself typing
:'a,'fs/target/replacement/g
a lot. I was used to using 'a and 'f as my go-to marks. So I also had this in my .vimrc:
map qq :'a,'...
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What does `1 do?
I tried to set a mark using a digit: m1 and apparently that does not work, because later I typed `1 and I think it opened the last opened file or something else, I'm not sure.
What does m1 do?
Are ...
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Is it possible to have Vim displaying the list of available marks when using marks?
That is, when you hit the marks operator key ` or ' you get a list of the available marks - i.e. the list Vim gives from the ex command :marks. Then, when you press a letter to jump to the mark, you ...
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Why is navigation to mark a ('a) not working?
I'm using Vim 7.4.1825, huge version without GUI on OSX.
When I start Vim with Vim -u NONE, navigating to mark a - set with 'a - is not working. Every other mark (b-z) is working well, only jump to ...
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Compute the distance between two marks
I came across a question, while writing some vimscript. I wanted to know the "distance in motion" between two marks in the buffer.
The interesting point of this can be to know how many time I have to ...
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How do I jump back to the next-to-last insert position?
I can't find an easy solution to the following problem.
Consider I'm in insert mode and I need to modify something in another point of the text. I exit insert mode and then move to the point I need ...
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