Questions tagged [plugin-system]
For questions about Vim's plugin system. NOT for questions about a specific plugin (use the appropriate plugin-* tag) or questions that may require a plugin.
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How do I install a plugin in Vim/vi?
How do I install a plugin in Vim?
Does it matter:
Whether I use vi or Vim?
Whether I use gVim?
Which version of Vim I'm using?
What my OS is?
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What is the Vim8 package feature and how should I use it?
Vim 8 was released today and the release notes mentions a new "package" feature. What is it and how should I use it?
Most importantly, does it replace the good old plugin managers?
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How to load plugins from my vimrc and from another file?
I have my dotfiles synchronized on github which is a current practice.
As I use several machines I want to be able to have some part of my configuration not synched on my github repo. To do so I ...
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How can I redefine plugin key mappings?
I have installed a plugin that doesn't provide a mechanism to disable the key mappings it defines. I want to redefine one of the mappings (<leader>cc) defined by the plugin for my own pursope, I'...
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Auto back-indent word 'else' in if/else statement in Vim
There is this feature or module in Vim which auto back-indents words during writing if/else statements. For example:
if a == 1:
xx <-- here when I press enter cursor goes right below end of ...
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How to customize colorschemes without editing their source files?
Similarly to plug-ins, color schemes are commonly distributed as clone-able Git repositories, which make it less desirable to directly edit their source files (as sometimes suggested) when wanting to ...
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In what order does Vim read ftplugin files, syntax files, and the .vimrc when the commands (e.g. set syntax=mysyntax, filetype plugin on) are called?
I've had some issues lately reconciling my .vimrc with files in ftplugin and after/ftplugin. In what order are all these things read?
For example: when I call in my .vimrc the command plugin filetype ...
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GitHub for .vimrc and plugins
I know many people store their .vimrc on GitHub to make it easier to get right to work on new machines, and that makes complete sense to me. Including plugins, however, is problematic, because the ...
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how to load vim8 optional packages in vimrc?
I am trying to load my optional language packages based on filetype.
I am using vim8 native package feature.
In vim I can load them with :packadd vim-javascript. However, I read in :help packadd - (...
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Elegant way to support both python and python3 in vim plugin
I recently received a pull request to change my vim plugin to make it support python3. But these changes break the plugin for the vim on my Mac which seems to listen to python.
python import sys
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Easiest way to insert LaTeX matrix?
Recently I found myself in a situation that need to type in quite a number of matrices to LaTeX by hand, so I was wondering if there are some tools that can help me to save some keystrokes.
The ...
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Installing NeoBundle packages with Plug
I have a plugin that only has install instructions for NeoBundle. I primarily use Plug, however. I tried copying the GitHub path from the NeoBundle instructions to a Plug command considering the two ...
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How to see if a plugin is active
How can I determine if a filetype plugin (such as vim-latexsuite) has been installed and activated when I open the appropriate file? Another popular editor would indicate that the relevant "minor mode"...
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Figure out which plugin is responsible for a key binding
I was about to answer a question but realized that my answer depends on a key binding provided by a plugin I have installed. Even worse, I don't know which plugin provides it.
The only way I know to ...
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How to conditionally load plugins
I was searching for an answer to this, but haven't found anything yet, so if I missed something obvious, I apologize. I thought it would be a quick google search away, so maybe it's more complicated ...
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What makes a plugin Vundle compatible and are other plugin managers interchangeable?
For a long time now I've been using Vundle to manage my vim plugins. As best I can make out this basically just organizes plugins in an isolated directory structure and keeps track of updating them ...
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What is a Vim plugin?
I understand that we can extend the power of Vim in order to add new features or modify existing ones and enhance our editing experience.
Although being myself a Vim user for quite a long time, I am ...
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Detect most resource hungry plugin
I have some plugins installed for vim, I would like to know how can I find out what plugin uses most resources (CPU, RAM) ?
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Is it possible to use a delegate or to pass a function as argument in Vimscript?
I am trying to create a small plugin to learn vimscript, my goal is to create some functions processing a selected text and replacing it with the result. The script contains the following items:
Two ...
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How do I install a .vimball Plugin?
I was given a plugin for Vim.
It came in something called a .vimball.
What am I meant to do with this exactly?
Where do I put it?
Do I need to be root to install it?
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When should I use vim-addon-manager instead of a regular package manager?
On Debian based systems, there is a package named vim-addon-manager.
My understanding is that it allows to install some plugins based on a repository of available plugins. To be able to install them, ...
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Drawbacks of using Python to develop new code in a VIM plugin
In one of the vim plugins I use, we have been thinking about using python vs vimscript going forward (https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode/issues/813#issuecomment-344754563).
I understand that ...
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How can I prevent plugins from overwriting my key mappings?
In my vimrc I have:
nnoremap <F4> :SyntasticToggleMode<CR>
And this works.
But I also have the unicode.vim plugin installed, which overrides this mapping:
if !hasmapto('<Plug>(...
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Using vim-addon-manager
I just downloaded and installed vim-addon-manager using sudo apt-get install. I'm not sure what to do next, I entered vim-addon-manager at the bash prompt (Ubuntu 14.04). Here is the output:
~$ vim-...
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Vim zebra line coloring?
Is there a plugin or way for me to alternate the background color for each line in vim?
E.g.
Previously I'd found vim-zebra but this looks really ugly:
I'd prefer the whole line to be colored, not ...
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Order in runtimepath of Vim packages or similar plug-in managers
Vim packages work by updating 'runtimepath' to include the top directories of the plug-ins in each package (and also the after/ directory), but the Vim documentation on packages isn't absolutely clear ...
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How do I prevent Vim from loading plugins on older configurations?
I have a couple of plugins that don't work correctly on some machines running earlier versions of Vim.
Is there a way to supress the Error detected while processing... errors when I start up vim in ...
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Selectively enable a subset of vim plugins for specific category of workflows (plugin virtualenv for vim projects)
I use vim for many different categories of projects, typically:
Writing code (3 languages, python, Matlab and C)
Writing documentation ( .rst, .html)
Writing reports (.tex)
Readme file (.md)
As a ...
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Call vim command from shell, and suppress output while it operates
I'm setting up a vim environment install script. I'm using vim-plug for plugin management.
What I'd like to do is, from the install.sh, run vim and call PlugInstall to
trigger plugin download and ...
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Is there Vim plugin that can show keystroke maps or abbreviations for command after it is used?
Is there a tool or plugin for a learner which can display the keyboard shortcuts or abbreviated versions for commands after they are typed in?
If for instance I use : to get the command line and ...
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How can I right-align end-of-line comments with the Tabular plugin?
I often have code that looks something like this:
a = 1 # description 1
longer_name = 2 # description 2
# no_longer_needed = 3 # ignore
another_name = 4 # description 4
and would like to right-align ...
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How do I let the user of my plugin customize a custom highlight group I define?
In this plugin for (soft-)wrapping only the current line, I have defined a highlight group, au ColorScheme * hi SoftWrapHighlightGroup ctermbg=NONE ctermfg=NONE, which I use here as an argument to a ...
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When to use "set exrc" and local '.vimrc' in Vim, and how to manage plugins with multiple 'vimrc' files for large projects?
I'm using Vim for a project that has a lot of pages per chapter, and Vim is a little bit slow. I want to create a local '.vimrc' file for this project with only the plugins I need, and I'm trying to ...
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Syntax folder under plugin/foo/syntax/foo.vim not automatically applied when filetype change?
I have a plugin under nvim/plugin/foo, but the syntax file nvim/plugin/foo/syntax/foo.vim is not automatically applied when the filetype change, but if I put it under nvim/syntax/foo.vim it works
I'...
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How to autoload multiple rc-style files in Vim 8+
I want to split up my .vimrc into multiple files by language or toolchain, use case, etc.
In fact, my end goal is to be able to provide instructions to students in the format of "If you want the ...
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How can I check whether the user has defined a highlight group before Vim 8.2.3917
With this question I've learned of the existence of hlget and hlID, which I use in a plugin of mine like this:
if empty(hlget('SoftWrapHighlightGroup'))
" do stuff
endif
However, those ...
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