Questions tagged [vimscript-python]
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configure VIM with Python support for Debian 9.4 VM Instance
I'm trying to configure VIM with Python support in order to use the You Complete Me pluggin.
This question has been asked before. Unfortunately none of the answers have worked for me. Any suggestions ...
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How do I split a vim Window using python?
The vim documentation of the Python interface to vim mentions:
The height attribute is writable only if the screen is split horizontally.
The width attribute is writable only if the screen is ...
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requires Vim compiled with Python (2.7.1+ or 3.4+) support
I compiled vim8.1 with the following options :
$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Sep 18 2018 09:50:18)
Included patches: 1-320
Compiled by mohsen@ns1
Huge version with GTK2 ...
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How vim invokes and executes python interpreter
What is happening under the hood when we type :w !python3 in VIM. Does it invoke the system-wide python3 or the one present in the virtual environment?
My script:
import sys
sys.path.append('./...
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How to run a python command based on a matched group of a pattern?
Let say I want to run a command that uses a matched group of a pattern for each line matching the pattern.
The natural choice is :g.
With the command :s, there is no problem. If i would do
:g/aaa\(....
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Vim is unable to find Python
I'm using Vim on Fedora 28 and Python seems to be enabled:
vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Jul 11 2018 10:00:51)
Included patches: 1-177
Modified by <[email protected]&...
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`vim.eval('a:items')` fails if 'a:items' contain `BOM HEADERs`
I am using a pluging ctrlp-py-matcher, which is using the python interface to
vim. My VIM is compiled with python3 support
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 17, compiled Jul 1 2018 10:45:10) Included
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Python integration not working as usual
I am compiling Vim on Linux (18.04 Ubuntu) on a new environment and I am experiencing an issue with a lot of my vimrc configuration, which has some inline python logic.
Basically the python code just ...
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Is `width` a parameter of the Python object `vim.current.window`?
I am trying to use PYthon to interface with VIM in my vimrc. I am aware that
this can be done in vimrc in VIML, but I don't want to learn VIML too much,
and am already familiar with Python.
I looked ...
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Python support using pyenv
I am at the end of hour-long research on why I cannot install vim with proper python support. Problems already recognized: Impossible to install python 2 and 3 support together on ubuntu 16.04; oh ...
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Vim package development python support for 2, 3, or both?
Apparently there are some issues preventing vim from being built with both python and python3 support under many linux distributions and OSX. This makes it difficult or impossible for many users to ...
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passing arguments to pyfile/py3file function
I try to do something similar to this question.
E.g. I have a python script in a file /tmp/testme.py which should do different things depending on what argum
ents are passed to it:
import vim
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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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Trying to compile vim with python 3.6. Where is my config directory?
I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Linux, only started using it recently.
However, I am trying to compile vim with python because I am using latex live preview and it needs a python compiled vim ...
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How to write a plugin that works for both Python3 and python? [duplicate]
I feel like this might be because of my lack of vimscript knowledge. Basically I want to write a patch for this plugin https://github.com/actionshrimp/vim-xpath to make it work for python3 (and hence ...
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pyeval not working on vim -u NONE or vim diffs
:echo pyeval('vim.current.window.col') works fine on a normal Neovim instance.
But if I start Neovim in diff mode or with the -u NONE option and try the same command, I get this error:
Error ...
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(OSX) Can't run gvim from gvim
I make a file called run_gvim_thing.sh in my home dir. Inside of that is the command gvim myfile.py && echo "yay". If I run that file from terminal it launches gvim with myfile.py. If I run ...
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Error when trying to call pymode#rope#goto_definition() with vim's -c arg
If I call gvim main.py -c "call cursor(41, 45)" -c "call pymode#rope#goto_definition()"
Then I get this error about parenthesis:
"main.py" [unix] 54L, 1677C
Error detected while processing command ...
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Python quit unexpectedly [closed]
When I start vim (homebrew installation, /usr/local/bin/vim), I get the error "Python quit unexpectedly."
How do I make python work with my vim?
$ which vim
/usr/local/bin/vim
$ which python
/usr/...
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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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Vim 8.0 python support: where to store a per-buffer python variable?
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Python integration in Vim 8.0 provides a handful of useful python objects in vim module. In particular, there are per-buffer objects accessible via vim.buffers list and vim.current.buffer. ...
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Vim crash with :py3 import sys; print(sys.version)
Windows 8
Vim 8.0.584, 32 bit from https://tuxproject.de/projects/vim/ .7z archives: x86
python36.dll, 32 bit from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/python-3.6.0-embed-win32.zip
copied python36....
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Vim 8.0 breaks YCM on Windows 10
I was using Vim 7.4 with YCM quite successfully (thank you for YCM!) and just today noticed that Vim 8.0 was out. I downloaded, installed, started and now it complains that "YouCompleteMe unavailable: ...
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How to automate populating Python's class constructor?
I've done some searching with various keywords, but unsuccessfully. Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker.
I'm new to VIM and to Python, and I'm learning both on the go as much as I can, but ...
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How to get Python support on MS Windows?
I've installed the latest version of Vim to date (8.0) for Windows. But the version of Vim I've got does not have Python support. I've downloaded the .exe version directly from vim.org.
echo has('...
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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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Vim 8.0 Python support
I'm trying to upgrade my Vim installation to version 8.0, but it doesn't support both Python and Python 3 as the below image.
(PS: Because of this problem, I cannot use the YCM (YouCompleteMe) plugin ...
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Vim problem installing python 3.5 from source
I have installed python 3.5 from the official source, and everything was working. I decided to try vim as a sort of command line IDE. Most plugins worked with vim, but when I tried YouCompleteMe for ...
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Vim python backend, how to import user installed shared libraries?
I (very) often write python, and I use Vim's python3 backend to test my code. To perform my tests I use:
vnoremap <localleader>p y:<c-r>"<c-b>python3 <cr>
It simply takes my ...
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how to change python interpreter used by jedi-vim
I have Anaconda (including python3.5.2), VIM (7.4) and Jedi-VIM installed on my system. There was also a python installed on the linux system by default.
The autocompletion is working on base ...
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Python integration in Vim on Raspberry Pi
I am relatively new to programming, and I built a mobile computer with a Pi at its heart to learn on the go. Ideally, I would use Vim as my IDE for Python 3. However, every attempt at installation ...
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python-mode python interpreter & cjrh/vim-conda
I'm having a bit of trouble with running scripts with python-mode while in a specific conda virtual environment.
I've installed spf13 & an additional plugin (vim-conda) which allows to change ...
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How can I get more features?
My vim version is "huge" without GUI. Nevertheless, it is missing a lot of features like clipboard and python.
How can I get a more full-featured version? I read that there is a version vim-nox which ...
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How to use the argument of a vimscript function in an inner python function?
I have the following vimscript: it contains a vimscript function which executes a python code thanks to python << EOF:
function! Test(myArgument)
python << EOF
def test(myArgument):
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Start and attach to neovim in same python file
I have a working prototype for some kind of linux-based neovim-app. Sole functionality is "vsplit if 'k' is pressed". It is based on tarruda's nvim-terminal-edit-py.
It is started through start_nvim....
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Conflict between python used by vim and by YouCompleteMe
YCM does not work for the reason given above. When I type :python import sys; print sys.version I obtain:
2.7.9 (default, Dec 13 2014, 15:13:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)]
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How can I get python library help in vim?
I tried python-mode, it seems that it can work when I press K on "numpy.array", but if I want to press K on "np.array", it won't work.
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What does vim try to tell me with: 'Sorry, this command is disabled, the Pythons's site module could not be loaded'?
I try to get python support in gvim on windows to work with the help of this binary distribution.
First I got the error python27.dll could not be located, what I successfully fixed by copying python27....
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How to resolve "requires Vim compiled with Python 2.x support" when launching Vim?
I have Vim 7.4 installed on Windows 10 as part of a Mingw64 installation. I installed the YouCompleteMe plugin on it through Vundle, then ran the install.py, which completed successfully.
Now, every ...
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How to access a custom python module inside vim?
This is a Python 2.7 question. I have a custom python 2.7, that I have compiled and have been using successfully across my system. My custom python has the YAML modules installed as well.
The system ...
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neovim: autocompletion on user defined command plugin
I am write a plugin for neovim in python using this client and I looking for a way to offer completion when executing a command. I have look at the following example to structure my plugin. As an ...
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How do I use Python plugins on Windows?
I have Windows 7 64-bit, with python 2.7.11 and python 3.5.1 (both 32-bit) installed, and I have compiled vim with python/dyn and python3/dyn, but I keep getting the following error:
:py print "hello"...
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How can I build vim with just python 3 support?
I'm on Arch, and recently the vim-python3 and gvim-python3 packages were removed, so I'm working on building vim from source such that the :python command will act as python3. Specifically, I'm doing ...
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Neovim Python script hangs
I'm thinking of migrating from Vim to NeoVim. I decided to begin with a bit of Python code in my .vimrc that sets the backup directory.
Using the documentation, I wrote the following script:
"-------...
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Vimscript-python support not working in terminal
When starting vim in a mingw64 terminal emulator on windows, the command :py print(1) fails, saying
Could not load library msys-python2.7.dll
Sorry, this command is disabled, the Python library could ...
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How to detect the buffer number of new buffer?
I would like to create a new scratch buffer in vim script. I would like to use this buffer to output the result of the execution of a scala script.
I am creating the buffer with this function:
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Is it possible to start python thread from inside Vim under HP-UX?
I've compiled Python 2.7.10 and Vim 7.4 with Python support (HP-UX 11.31 ia64).
Everything seems to be working well except for threads. Here's simple example.
from threading import Thread
from time ...
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Calculating with python and appending result to file or register
I found this vim tip which allows you to evaluate a Python expression and displays the result in the command line. You just have to add
:command! -nargs=+ Calc :py print <args>
:py from math ...
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What is the best way to embed external python modules to vim plugin?
I decided to write a plugin for vim. I want to write it mainly in python, as I am most proficient in it. I started development with this example: http://brainacle.com/how-to-write-vim-plugins-with-...
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How to execute python statement for each line?
I've the following sample code which modifies the current line using Python statement:
:py import vim; vim.current.line="["+vim.current.line+"]"
How I can execute this statement for each line in the ...
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