Questions tagged [vim-windows]
A Vim window is a view of a buffer. A tab page comprises one or more windows. For questions about interaction with the Microsoft operating system, use [microsoft-windows]. For questions about interaction with the desktop windowing system, use [window-management].
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How do I instruct plugin BufExplorer to open a buffer in an existing window?
How do I instruct Vim plugin BufExplorer to open a buffer in a specific existing window rather than open the buffer in a new horizontal (key f or F) or vertical (key v or V) window?
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rightbelow not exhibiting the correct behavior
I am not seeing the correct behavior when I use the rightbelow command. If I run :vertical term then a terminal opens in a vertical split (terminal on the left, existing pane on the right), but the ...
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Pause the rendering/refreshing/drawing of the gVim/Vim screen
I am developing a gVim plugin that manages/reorganizes panels, buffers and tabs.
However, while most programmatic re-arranging take milliseconds, they can still look very messy to the eyes while you ...
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How to make left,right,up,down window movement behave like if windows were a ring?
This is, in the current window layout:
+---+---+---+
| | | |
| A | D | C |
| | | |
+---+---+---+
| E | F | G |
+---+---+---+
If the focused windows is A, then moving to the left should ...
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How can I run an autocmd before (!) a window is split?
TL;DR:
I want to avoid split windows and tabs. Is there a way to intercept a split command with an autocommand that translates every window split, including those of plugins, into a simple buffer ...
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Cannot get block-wise visual selections in vimscript?
I am searching for how to get visual selection in vimscript. And I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61486601/4438921, it is great, but the only issue is that, in block-wise visual mode, I ...
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LeftMouse focus window without moving cursor
Is there a way for clicking on a Vim window to focus that window if inactive (without moving the cursor), then move the cursor if the window is already active?
Here's what I've got so far:
function ...
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Misunderstanding of interaction between local options, moving between windows, and WinLeave, WinEnter, BufLeave, BufEnter events
This what is logged in :messages when I'm printing the value of nu and rnu upon the 4 events WinLeave, WinEnter, BufLeave, BufEnter during the action, done twice, of opening :help and closing it. The ...
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Starting from three horizontally split windows in Vim, how to have a new window vertically split to the left of all three initial windows?
Let's say we have three windows split horizontally in Vim and we want to have a new window that is split vertically to the left of all three current windows.
How can this be achieved?
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How to re-open the same window with the same buffer therein?
Consider the following snippet:
vim9script
# Set stuff in the newly created window
var my_win_nr = winnr('$')
var my_win_id = win_getid(my_win_nr)
win_execute(my_win_id, 'wincmd L')
win_execute(...
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How to get the number of columns to the left border of the current window?
As title. I want to know the offset regardless of the current buffer. It's not the column number of the current buffer.
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How to always open the `:h` as a split from the current window?
As title. Say I have A|B and already called :h foo on B then if I call :h bar on A it will not create a new split under A but change the content of the split from B instead. What I expect is that I ...
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How to map both keymaps `<C-w>q` and `<C-w><C-q>` to do nothing?
As title. I usually mistyped <C-w> into <C-w><C-q> and it close the window I was working on. That is really annoying... I have tried mapping this keymap into <nop> but it didn'...
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Can I copy options (everything shown when I run `:set` with no arguments) between active windows
I have two windows opened in the same terminal. These are actual vim windows within the same vim instance. The first window is a .py file which has many options set by default, plus additional options ...
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Is it possible to resize a floating window?
As title. Say I just created a floating window and some lines of it are too long to be displayed properly(to me), then in this case I would prefer to resize that window to make it larger instead of ...
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Is it possible to prevent the buffer of a window from being changed?
As title. In fact, I just encountered a situation where I cannot change the buffer of the current window, which is created by some plugin. So I guess there might be some window/buffer option(s) to ...
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vim-plug error on Windows
Longtime Linux, vim and vim-plug user, setting things up on Windows for the first time.
For debugging, I've reduced my .vimrc to just this:
call plug#begin()
Plug 'lifepillar/vim-solarized8'
call plug#...
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How to increase one window and make all others equal height?
I use Vim version 8.2
I have e.g. 5 windows.
I have made these of equal height by normal command
CTRL-W =
first question:
How to write this to be executed as :excommand in the EXcmd line?
second ...
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@: does not work to repeat the :qa command
I open the diff files between 2 code revisions using git difftool. I can use :qa to close the current diff and go to the next one. Rather than pressing :qa repeatedly, I would like to use @:, but I ...
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How can I change undo behavior in vim?
I'm new to vim and install that in windows 10.
I write this instructions in Vim then in normal mode pressed u and all the instructions disappeared.
console.log(899) hello you can write some simple ...
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Event with the same timing as BufEnter but triggers on vsplit?
As title. I have a pair of autocmds which needs each other:
One on WinLeave, this one is fine since it will be triggered when I call :vsplit.
One on BufEnter, this one is NOT fine for the edge case, ...
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What's the filetype of winbar? Is it a kind of window?
As title. I have some plugins that conflict with each other. If I can know the filetype of winbar then I save much time debugging.
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How to read a swapfile, but not touch the file which is open in Vim?
I am using vim 9.0 (2022 Jun 20, compiled Nov 30 2022 23:37:37).
I am running KDE and under Konsole I have very many windows with terminals /dev/ptsnn open with shell bash in each.
Many Vim instances ...
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Vim change window position with precision
Currently my Vim layout is this one :
________________________
| N | | |
| E | | |
| R | | |
| D | | |
| T |---------| |
| r | ...
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Edit a file in two different terminal windows
It's nice to edit the same file from two different views. I use a vsplit for this, as described here, and it works well.
However, I'd like to have the two views open in different terminal windows, ...
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How to toggle Fugitive status window
Fugitive provides a :Git commands that opens a window with basically the output of git status. To close it, I need to switch to that window and close it, which is tedious.
How do I toggle this window?
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how to pass all open windows to command line in vim [closed]
I want to run clang-format on all open windows.
What I currently do, is:
for each open window:
:!clang-format --style=file -i %
I have 2 issues:
the clang-format runs in shell, so it doesn't ...
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Does gvimfullscreen.dll working with gVim 9.0 on Windows?
I used to use gvimfullscreen.dll to toggle a full screen window state on gvim for Windows. It made gvim full screen, not maximised, with no titlebar.
I have not used gvim on Windows for some time ...
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How can I open netrw in a split when opening a directory?
I have figured out how to open a file browser in a split, using the following in vimrc:
let g:netrw_liststyle = 3
let g:netrw_banner = 0
let g:netrw_browse_split = 4
let g:netrw_winsize = 25
let g:...
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How can I get the active window in a tab?
For example, if I do:
% vim file
:tabedit one
:split two
I end up with two tabs, and one tab with two windows.
How can I get the active window of the second tab? My goal is to get a list of all tabs ...
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Coc.nvim doesn't work correctly
Yesterday, I installed coc.nvim in vim on windows. I remember that it showed up the suggestion tab. But today, I removed go and visual studio, then it didn't show up anymore. I tried to reinstall Go, ...
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Showing text info in window split separators
(I'm using nvim 0.7 and have recently moved from a init.vim to lua, which is baffling me slightly.)
In my old set-up a split would look like this:
→ note that the bar that splits the two windows ...
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How to save a file for which I have no write permissions on Windows
I would like to edit files like C:\Widows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts that need administrative privilege to be modified.
How can save the file on Windows if Vim has not been starter with administrator ...
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Plugin Dev - Keeping Track of Windows inside a single Tab
I'm trying to build a new plugin and I got myself a question about managing multiple windows inside a single tab (hope the terms are correct).
So far the examples and projects I've explored trying to ...
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Neovim 'tab' or 'vert' no longer splits, just creates buffer
When I start a neovim session, my first command is to startup a terminal session within vim. However lately (perhaps due to an OSX update?) any use of vert or tab no longer performs a vertical split, ...
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Overriding syntax highlighting for LaTeX defaults in vim
I am currently using default syntax highlighting for LaTeX in vim on a Windows machine. Here are the contents of my _vimrc file:
set number
set belloff=all
syntax on
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set ...
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How to window leftcol without switching to the window
winsaveview() returns multiple details about the window including the leftcol which is the amount of horizontal scroll. However you need to switch to the window to get that. getwininfo() returns ...
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How to detect split window resized?
I'm aware that the VimResized event happens the main vim window is resized. Is there any event that happens when a split subwindow is resized? I'm looking for something like WinResized.
I'd like to ...
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Prevent subwindow height from shrinking to zero
Working from home on a travel laptop makes one very stingy with screen space. I often have Vim taking up the right-most third of the screen and split up into 2-3 vertically stacked subwindows. ...
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Backslashes being removed from file paths when changing terminal to wsl on Windows gvim
On gvim for Windows I wanted to change the termial from cmd to wsl, so I added this to my gvimrc. which I got from an answer on another StackExchange site:
" Use WSL as terminal on Windows
if has(...
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In a vimrc, how do you preload a register with a string containing Special characters, like a newline?
In a vimrc file I want to preload register C with a string I regularly need when coding. The string has a newline in it but no success in getting it to work properly.
Here is an example vimrc snippet ...
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How do I use the \+ quantifier?
Running Windows 10 (Home) and
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled May 18 2018 18:36:07)
MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support
Included patches: 1
Compiled by mool@tororo.
I have ...
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Getting Server languageserver.ccls failed to start: error, when ever I open cpp file inside neovim
I get the following error:
Server languageserver.ccls failed to start: Launching server "languageserver.ccls" using command ccls failed.
I have installed coc-ccls, and I have pasted this ...
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Auto resize Vim focused window when open it the first time
I'm using vim-autoresize for resize windows. It uses:
augroup _vim-autoresize
autocmd!
autocmd WinEnter * call autoresize#resize()
augroup end
But WinEnter just changes behavior when your ...
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Vader for testing plugin that eases window navigation
Some time ago I wrote a plugin for easy window navigation, and now I was trying to write some test for it, using Vader, which I knew nothing about until a few hours ago.
Basically, with my plugin ...
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How do I open an existing file in a floating window?
For a plugin, I want to open an existing file situated in lua/myPlugin/ in a floating window, so whatever the actual working directory is, this file is always the one to be opened. It sounded easy, ...
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What's the difference between `BufWinEnter` and `BufEnter`?
I need an example to differentiate the two events in Vim, as I'm having a hard time understanding them.
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Preventing extra window split
:help in Vim will do a window split if there is no help window.
If there is a single window, this is fine.
But when there is already a split (vertical or horizontal), I would like to see the help in a ...
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BufDelete running after window is closed
For some reason, the BufDelete autocommand is being executed right after a window is created, instead before, and i think it shouldn't be like that, according to the docs:
Before deleting a buffer ...
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Meta-Model: Shrinking In Correct Direction
This questions sounds ridicolous, but is there any (mental?!) aid for my struggle when resizing windows?
Since the earliest days of my vi/m usage, I have struggle shrinking windows in the correct ...
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