Questions tagged [microsoft-windows]
For questions specific to Vim implementations on the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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24-bit / 256 colorscheme in Windows console
I'm using 64-bit Vim 8.1.0428 on Windows 10 release 1803.
The Windows 10 console now has 24-bit colours, and Vim 8 has been patched to handle 24-bit colours in the Windows console (i.e. using vim.exe ...
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How to un-silent exec in vim only if there is an error?
I have a few hotkeys mapped in my .vimrc (see below) for compiling and running autohotkey scripts but I can either be annoyed by the quest for the any key or I can run them silent and be unaware if ...
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Vimdiff causes command prompt to freeze with one particular file
I recently installed Vim for Windows (10) on my laptop and its mostly been working fine but, if I try to vimdiff with a text document I'm writing, it causes the command prompt to freeze.
In general, ...
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opening powershell from inside vim
I want to run powershell from vim and I have achieved it using the following mapping:
map <leader>cd :cd %:p:h<cr>:silent !powershell<cr>
The problem is that I can't do anything ...
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Run command to disable a plugin in modeline
System: gvim 8.1 1-116 / windows10
A file that I'd like to use modeline (enabled): # vim: ft=python but disable ale plugin that will trigger on save - the file contains some python codes.
Command ...
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Revert effect of source $VIMRUNTIME\mswin.vim
On Windows, Vim does source $VIMRUNTIME\mswin.vim in its system-wide config and remaps many keys.
I'd like to have default Vim key bindings but I don't want to touch system-wide config. How do I do ...
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How to check if my .vim/buflist.txt file is empty or contains whitespace(s) in _vimrc
How to check if my .vim/buflist.txt file is empty or contains whitespace(s) in _vimrc of my gVim on Windows 10?
I tried this:
let BufferListFile = $HOME . "/.vim/buflist.txt"
echo BufferListFile
" ...
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How to add “Edit with gVim Easy” context menu item in Windows 10
I originally just wanted to change the context menu item:
Edit with Vim
to
Edit with gVim Easy
and adjust the respective command appropriately.
But since I found out, some DLL is responsible ...
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Maximizing gVim on Windows 10 while also restoring all open files / tabs
On Windows 10, I installed gVim 8.1, so far I have made the following progress to make it usable for me:
I made changes directly to _vimrc file, in spite I know there is also a gVim specific ...
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Compile vim with python3 support in Windows
I'm used to Ubuntu and know how to compile and edit vim. But how can i compile vim with python3 support on windows ?
Prefer to do it from the terminal. But i don't mind if i need to do it with miniGW ...
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How to adjust gVim to my HiDPI display scaling on Windows 10?
Being a user of GUI editors (mostly Sublime Text) and one simple CLI editor (nano), and just having gVim (the GUI version of vim) installed on my Windows 10, I can't figure out how to adjust this ...
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Extended ASCII characters changed upon opening Vim in different shell
Specifically, I have encountered this issue with the lowercase a with an umlaut ä and the lowercase scharfes s ß. Their (extended) ASCII values are 0xDF and 0xE4, respectively:
This can be seen, in ...
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How to change gVim icon on Windows?
When open gvim, there is a small icon Vim in the title plus buffer name.
I'd like to be able to hack anything about vim, including being able to change this gvim's icon. Is there a way to do that?
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error output when using commands proxied via WSL (asyncrun plugin)
I have wsl - ubuntu installed under Windows 10. Some ubuntu's commands are proxied to use in cmd by create .bat files and add them to PATH environment of windows10, pattern like following:
@echo off
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How do I pass a full filepath to a function in a Vim plug-in?
I have an exe program that checks for certain errors in a text file.
I want to create a shortcut (like \+M) to run that exe file against the text file.
My exe file's path is C:\Users\xyz\Documents\...
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How to create an Edit-with-Vim context menu entry for Vim 8.1 on Windows 10
The Explorer context menu entry does not get created by the installer. Windows 10 Pro v1803 (64-bit).
What I have already tried:
Installed Vim 8.1 using the stock Windows installer https://ftp.nluug....
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Cannot find color scheme error in Neovim
I installed Neovim on Windows 8.1 using Chocolatey.
But the problem is I cannot see any color scheme as shown in the tutorials.
I have cloned a repo from GitHub to ~/.config/nvim/colors/ and it has ...
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How to use WSL's bash shell as default terminal of gvim/windows 10?
gvim 8 1-26 / windows 10
I'd like to use Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL)'s bash shell as a gvim's terminal instead of cmd.
So if I type in command potion of gvim: :!.\test.sh, it will echo result ...
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Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
I am new to vim. As much as I love it, there seem to be a lot of bugs or errors every time I try doing something.
I am unable to run the plugin "browserlink.vim" (https://github.com/jaxbot/...
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How to install emmet-vim and pathogen in windows properly?
Download vim and gir for windows ,then install them.
1. Install vim in "C:\Program Files\Vim\".
2. Download git for windows from the url.
git for windows
Opne git for windows as ...
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How to run/debug ahk (AutoHotScripts) scripts using Gvim, vim
How to execute ahk (AutoHotScripts) scripts using Gvim. Let say I have interpreter:
"C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe" /ErrorStdOut "d:\ahk\myscript.ahk" 2>"Syntax-Error Log.txt"
While ...
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init.vim cannot be found
I hope this question is a duplicate one because I have already tried to find init.vim inside the nvim folder but I am unable to locate the file.
Also, would I have to create it explicitly or would it ...
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Does Windows GUI Vim perform font substitution for glyphs unavailable in current font?
MacVim specifically (if obliquely) mentions font substitution, and I've found evidence online that GTK2 gVim does too.
But does Windows gvim?
N.B. I'm already aware of the 'guifontwide' setting.
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Parsing a valid normal-mode command (possibly with regex)? (for Vim-like Word add-in)
I am writing a VBA routine so I can use normal-mode commands in Microsoft Word. (Yes, I am! Edit And here you go!) I am only going to support the d, c, and y operators initially, and only char/word/...
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How to successfully back out to command prompt with Ctrl-Z in Neovim on Windows?
I know there's a number of ways you can suspend a Neovim/Vim session.
One way being CTRL-Z to jump back into the command prompt, and press fg and ENTER to go back into your Neovim/Vim session.
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How to customize the color of an HTML output file generated from Git Bash?
I have used the following command in Git Bash to perform a 'vimdiff' for 2 XML files.
vimdiff xml1.xml xml2.xml -c TOhtml -c 'w! result.html' -c 'qa!'
The HTML file which is getting generated is ...
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Change where a register actually points (in this case, redirect “+” [sys clipboard], to an external program) [duplicate]
Setting up vim on WSL, and I want to be able to redirect the vim internal clipboard to the windows clipboard. This is possible if running an X server like XMing, but I don't want to do that.
I have 2 ...
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What is the correct way to escape UNC paths?
Let's say there is a file \\server-42\tmp\dir\test.txt. When my plugin tries to execute this command via system() it triggers an error:
cd "\\server-42\tmp\dir" && git ls-files --error-...
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Copying From Vim to Ubuntu Bash on Windows
Note: this question is specific to the relatively new Ubuntu Bash on Windows system.
So it seems possible to paste into Vim from the Windows clipboard by simply right clicking in insert mode after ...
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How do I set `$NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS` on startup using windows?
On unix, you can do something like this:
$NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS=/some/path nvim
On Windows, that does not work. What is the equivalent?
My use case is detailed out here: https://github.com/mhinz/...
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Neovim,. PowerShell, and PowerShell ISE
I have neovim installed on Windows 10. It works just fine from the short cut and from a PowerShell console.
However, when I use a PowerShell ISE, the nvim.exe opens a window which closes in less than ...
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Vim Plugin Path Issue
I'm trying to get Vim all decked out with some fancy plugins on my work laptop but I am running into some issues.
Using echo &rtp I can see that Vim will look in several directories for startup ...
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Unable to map ctrl-l
My _vimrc contains the following lines:
set nocompatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin
nmap <c-l> :w<CR>
nmap <c-m> :w<CR>
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E117: Unknown function: emmet#util#closePopup [duplicate]
I downloaded the latest version of emmet.vim from this page (which is 0.86). I copied emmet-vim\autoload\emmet.vim to vim\vim80\autoload\ and emmet-vim\plugin\emmet.vim to vim\vim80\plugin\.
When I ...
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Vim error: Unable to open swap file when using backslash as path separator in Windows shell
I'm using cmder as my Win7 shell. I see the following behaviour:
Works fine (file in current directory):
vim test
Works fine (absolute path):
vim ~/test
Works fine (relative path with forward ...
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How to account for special characters \% in mapping
I am using vim on Windows and have following mappings:
imap <f4> <ESC>:w<CR>:!clang -std=c++11 -o output\%.exe %<CR>
imap <f5> <ESC>:!output\%.exe<CR>
As we ...
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UTF-8 not working on VIM
I've searched a lot about this on Internet but nothing's working.
I'm using Vim 8.0.3 on Windows 10 and I can't get the right encoding to work. It's not a problem when writing code, but the problem ...
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Incorrect formatting of file when calling nvim inside NodeJS script
I am formatting elixir files .ex with the help of a contributed plug-in for nvim like this on Windows:
cmd> nvim.exe -i NONE -n -E +"norm gg=G" -cwq c:/file.ex
This works fine when the command is ...
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How do I debug normal/insert/cart mode shortcuts that don't behave as expected? [closed]
I am using exactly the same version of Vim (Gvim 8.0.1123) across all my Windows machines, and only have the following problem on one of them:
Problem
That I cannot use <c-d> in insert-mode, ...
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Change runtimepath of Gvim on Windows 10
This's kind of odd question but I can't change the runtimepath of gvim to comply the same manner like under linux (plugins put under .vim)
I tried to append .vim at the begin of runtimepath like: set ...
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Why can system directory files not be edited
It seems that vim does not work correctly when editing files in Windows systems directories. For example, editing the PowerShell all users, all hosts profile script fails. The current file has only ...
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Where do I put my “vimrc” file for Neovim on Windows?
:help nvim-from-vim says:
create ~/.config/nvim/init.vim with these contents:
set runtimepath+=~/.vim,~/.vim/after
set packpath+=~/.vim
source ~/.vimrc
and:
If your system sets $...
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How to interpret ASCII codes returned by “ga” command?
I'm cleaning data imported from Excel to Access, and ran across funny quotes that I'm having trouble getting unambiguous ASCII codes for.
They are the hooked single quotes ‘ and ’. Vim's ga command ...
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Neovim setup on MS Windows
I'm trying to switch from Gvim to Neovim. Most tutorials are about Linux and not how to setup Neovim on MS Windows?
Two problems:
vimrc
From the document it's %userprofile%\AppData\Local\nvim\init....
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How do I get vim to autocomplete correctly for :! on Windows?
On Vim 7.3 on Windows, if I use Tab to autocomplete paths with nonstandard characters in many cases, it works fine. For example:
:n 2016\ Posts\\feb\something.txt
If I press Tab after '2' and 'f' ...
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How can I run :! commands inline instead of in a new cmd.exe window?
When using Gvim on Linux I can use :!ls to list files and directories 'in-line' in Gvim to navigate around the file structure and open files.
However, on Windows when using :!dir, a cmd window opens ...
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Vim on WSL: synchronize system clipboard? (set clipboard^=unnamed)?
While using WSL/Bash for Windows I want to be able to use y yy 3y and p the same way they always work in vim, but connecting to the system clipboard shared by all apps, not to vim's internal clipboard....
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How to track time-expenditure for Vim operations?
Is there a syntime equivalent global command that can track the overall Vim performance? I am having trouble debugging the cause for a set of very-slow file-operations on a Windows machine.
Since ...
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No python support [duplicate]
I recently started out with gVim 8 for windows and i noticed that the higher end plugins that provide more functionality require python support or something like that. But for some reason i am not ...
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Using Vim-Plug with portable version of gvim (windows)
My university does not (quite understandably) provide administrative rights to users on their public machines (which run only MS Windows 7 OS). As a regular vim user, I use a lot of plugins (...
