Questions tagged [user-commands]
Questions about :command and how the user can define custom commands.
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Insert current date into buffer
I want to insert current date into buffer.
I did in my .vimrc - it works:
nnoremap <F5> "=strftime("%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S %Z")<CR>P
But how can I create a Vim command (e.g.: :...
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Can I make a user command non-silent?
Summary
I use a command and it prints a message. When I create a user command that runs the same underlying function, I don't see the message.
Example
The command :Telescope git_status from the ...
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How to pass an argument to a user command that contains a space
I have a user command that grep-replaces files recursively using vimgrep and cfdo:
-- Grep
vim.api.nvim_create_user_command(
'Grep',
function(opts)
if #opts.fargs < 1 then
print("...
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Lowercase user-commands?
After years of torture, my trusty rusty keyboard is finally waning its power—it now seems to believe that I'm jitter-clicking whenever I press q. Before getting a new one, I would like to ask if there ...
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Can I use Telescope to find all commands and functions?
I am switching over from Emacs, Doom Emacs specifically. It had a very nice feature where you could just press M-x and then start typing the command you're looking for and it will fuzzy find it for ...
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How to get both the start and end (row, col) of the visual-selected region in `nvim_create_user_command`?
I want to create a user command that can get the visual-selected text (may across multiple lines) from users when the command is calling upon the v-selected range. (so the cursor columns of both the ...
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How do I call a user-defined command from a function, and wait until it finishes?
The two functions in the script below can be called independently via key mappings <leader>1 and <leader>2. In a perfect world, <leader>1 will always be called first. If the user ...
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Sort from current column from visual selection
I am trying to write a :sort wrapper that sorts from current column.
command! -bang -range=% -nargs=* Sortc exe '<line1>,<line2>sort<bang> <args> /\%' .. virtcol('.') .. 'v/'
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How can I rename a command but still use the original command?
I have the following Vim code:
function! TabClose(...)
if a:1 == ""
tabonly
elseif a:1 == "left"
Tabops Close Left
elseif a:1 == "right"
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How to write a user-defined command in vim?
I have read map.txt in vim doc and tried to create my Ex command. But the doc is quite hard to understand.
I wanna write a command to call 2 command is PlugInstall and CocInstall.
command! MyCommand :...
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Custom Arguments to User Command
I am trying to create a command that runs a function, however, I can seem to get custom arguments that are autocompleted when pressing Tab. How would it be possible to set these arguments?
The current ...
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How to delete all user-defined commands starting with XYZ?
How can I delete all user-defined commands where names share a common prefix (e.g. XYZSomeCmd, XYZAnotherCmd, ...)?
Found myself with a lot of dead commands while writing a plugin and changing prefix ...
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How to make an user-defined command that works in normal and visual mode?
Goal
I would like to create a command that can automatically put an x inside a [].
This command should work in both normal mode and visual mode.
normal mode
If it is in normal mode, and the cursor is ...
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How do I call a function from a user command? (Getting a "trailing character" error, E488)
So I was trying to setup a custom command to change tab width on the fly.
function! SetTab(width)
set tabstop=a:width
endfunction
:command Tab -nargs=1 call SetTab(<args>)
The idea is to ...
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Intercepting & modifying commands
Is it possible to intercept incoming user commands? For example, if the user executes :echo 'hello', then I would like to compare the string and the command, and change it to execute :echoerr 'hello' ...
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How to create user command to delete current file and saveas to new file?
I use :saveas to move a file while maintaining its undo history. Most of the time I immediately delete the old file. So if I'm editing foo.txt I'll issue
:saveas bar.txt
:!rm foo.txt
I wanted to ...
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How can I execute commands or move to other tabs without first closing the terminal executed by `:term`?
I've created a new terminal by executing :tabnew +term.
How can I execute other Vim commands or move to another tab without first closing the terminal (:term)?
Currently, all input is directed to ...
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Chaining user-defined commands [duplicate]
Assuming I have defined 2 commands in .vimrc
MultipleEmptyLinesToOne
RemoveExcessiveSpaces
I can run them in command-line mode:
:exec "'<,'>MultipleEmptyLinesToOne" | exec "'<,'>...
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How do I remap the :make command to run a docker container?
I use a custom docker container to build my project so my "make" command is actually docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src container make $arg.
I'd like to be able to type :make $arg in command mode and ...
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How to use variables in a user defined command? [duplicate]
I have this user defined command:
command! PS silent! w | PlugSnapshot! ~/.vim/plugins/plugins.lock
How could I change it to take the filepath from a variable, something like this:
let ...
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What is the purpose of user `command` in Vi/Vim?
What is the purpose of user command in Vi/Vim? I noticed that a lot of commands are usually used to call functions like this:
command! TrimWhitespace call TrimWhitespace()
From my observation, ...
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Is it possible to non-recursively remap a command?
So Fugitive defines :Glog. This is, apparently, aliased to a call to the script-local s:Log() function (according to :command Glog.)
My muscle-memory has been using glog at the command-line, for ...
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How to edit a file in a new tab?
I want to map :e file.txt to :tabnew file.txt, or the equivalent setting for editing file in a new tab. What do I need to put into my vimrc?
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Using arguments in a .vimrc command
I've discovered that I can edit the .vimrc file to create custom commands and would like to create simpler search and replace alternative commands, but have no idea how to edit %s/foo/bar/gc so that ...
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Mapping using tpope/vim-surround only works with command
I have this mapping to surround a Word with jQuery id selector $("#...") and it works fine using a command:
command! JqId normal viwo^[i#^[ysiW"ysiW)i$^[E
nnoremap <Leader>jqid :JqId<CR>
...
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Extract JavaScript variable (feature example): how to improve it?
I am a Vim newbie with one week experience and I'm already enjoying it.
I've successfully written an (ugly) command+function+mapping with which I can extract some code to a new variable in JavaScript....
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Passing visual range to a :command as its argument
I have a command:
command! -nargs=1 TmuxSession !tmux.session "<args>"
and I want to run it in visual mode so that selected text will be passed as argument.
By selected text I mean selected in ...
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How to create user command without a capital letter as first letter?
I know I can set user-defined commands using the :command Foo bar syntax, but I want a way to set a command without using capitals.
For example, to save all open buffers, the command is :wa, but that'...
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Better "bro ol"
Inspired by a nice solution on a Stack Overflow, the following was put in my vimrc:
command! Bro :vnew +setl\ buftype=nofile | 0put =v:oldfiles
\| nnoremap <buffer> <CR> :e <C-r>=...
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Why does the <count> escape sequence insert the current line number in my user command?
I've added the following to my .vimrc in order to test how <count> works in a user defined command because I was noticing odd behaviour:
:command! -count=1 CountTest :exe "echo " . <count>...
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Why only part of a command is executed
I have created a new command
command! Tags execute '!GTAGSFORCECPP=1 gtags' | cscope kill -1 | cscope add GTAGS
However, for some reason cscope add GTAGS doesn't execute when I execute :Tags.
Can ...
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Filtering text out to new tab with custom command
I would like to add to my vimrc a custom command (:customFilter {pattern}) for filtering text and placing result in a new tab.
I tried using :global or :vimgrep /{pattern}/ % but the problem is that ...
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Is there a command to enter Visual Block mode?
I've set up a bunch of key mappings that would cause many Vim users to cringe. Now I am unable to get into Visual Block mode using Ctrl-V (Ctrl-Q isn't mapped, but it doesn't work).
Is there any ...
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How to define a custom user defined command to filter a range?
I want to select some lines in visual mode, and enter a custom command :Ex<CR> so that:
'<,'>!expand -t4
is run to expand all tabs in selected range. How to define the Ex command?
I ...
