Questions tagged [whitespace]
Question about how Vim handles non printable characters.
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How to show illegal whitespace (such as unbreakable space) in source code?
I sometimes type (by accident) shift-space, inserting unbreakable space into code. With c++, I get this:
error: stray ‘\302’ in program
error: stray ‘\240’ in program
while in other formats (like ...
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Preventing the join() command from adding extra space
I am trying to use the join command to join multiple strings. The join command seems to add one character of space in between each of the strings. But I don't want any space added.
As an example, I'm ...
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Tab multiple lines [duplicate]
I have my tab set to 4 spaces with :set tabstop=4.
Now I want to highlight multiple lines and tab them, or indent all them 4 spaces. If I highlight the lines and do >, it seems to indent them more ...
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How to remove trailing white-spaces automatically while typing?
I'm often editing code where others didn't care about trailing white-spaces. I'm using the TrimWhiteSpace()-function from this answer to remove white-spaces when saving the file.
However that leaves ...
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Setting TAB to 2 spaces
I've looked through various answers which imply that setting the following in .vimrc would be appropriate to force tab insertions to become spaces.
filetype plugin indent on
" On pressing tab, insert ...
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Removing trailing spaces with the substitute command changes the cursor position
From http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Remove_unwanted_spaces
function TrimWhiteSpace()
%s/\s\+$//e
endfunction
autocmd FileWritePre * call TrimWhiteSpace()
autocmd FileAppendPre * call TrimWhiteSpace()
...
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Expand <TAB> into 2 spaces when and only when editing HTML
My current configuration makes vim automatically expand TAB to 4 spaces for me:
" Define tab as 4 spaces
" Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878974/redefine-tab-as-4-spaces
set tabstop=4 ...
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Dangerous trailing space
In remove unwanted spaces page in vim wikia, it says:
However, this is a very dangerous autocmd to have as it will always strip trailing whitespace from every file a user saves. Sometimes, trailing ...
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Removing redundant whitespaces on save/write
I want all redundant whitespaces to be removed on write/save. How can I do that?
By redundant I mean ones that exists after the last character or if there's an empty line and it contains a few ...
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vim search for arbitrary combination of spaces and tabs
I'd like to construct a mapping that would replace a b with c where the gap between a and b could be zero or more spaces or zero or more tabs, but not zero of both. There have been several ...
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Is there a way to strip the contents of register before pasting
There are times I know I just want to paste the content of the register inline where my cursor is, so the initial and trailing whitespace (newline, tab, etc) is not wanted.
Because selecting contents ...
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Custom highlights not working in visual splits
I'm a tabs kind of guy, so I highlight leading and trailing white spaces with the following commands in my .vimrc:
highlight whiteSpace_trailing ctermbg=red guibg=red
highlight whiteSpace_leading ...
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How to show trailing spaces, while leaving tabs as they are?
I like the ability to show trailing whitespaces, so I have this setting.
set list listchars=tab:\ \ ,trail:·
I never use tabs (although I don't think tabs are bad, it's just a convention), but ...
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Show leading whitespaces, but not including tabs
I am a tabs kind of guy, I do not like when my code contains leading whitespaces instead of leading tabs. I often exchange codes with colleagues and I first have to convert the leading whitespaces to ...
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Shift left or right (with `noet`) without converting existing spaces to tabs
Foreword
I'm using the "indent with tabs, align with spaces" ideology for indentation. This means that each line in a file can be prefixed with an arbitrary amount of tabs and spaces (as opposed to "...
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Disable vim-better-whitespace highlighting for nvim-ipy buffer
I am using the vim-better-whitespace plugin to highlight trailing whitespaces. For some buffers, I don't want this behavior and vim-better-whitespace usually provides an option to list the filetypes ...
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What is the rationale for \r and \n meaning different things in s command?
We all know that, when searching, \n is newline and \r is carriage return (^M), but when replacing \r is newline while \n is a null byte (^@).
What is the origin of this asymmetry? Given that this ...
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How to operate on all of a word without its surrounding space?
In vim you can do daw to delete the entire word, but it also removes the space after the word, (caw too).
Is there a way to operate on the entire word without effecting the space around it?
For ...
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How to prevent indent, unindent (>>, <<) from re-aligning text?
Is it possible to make indenting/unindenting not re-align text, eg:
/*
* Some Text
*/
Indents to:
/*
* Some Text
*/
I would prefer/expect:
/*
* Some Text
*/
I saw ...
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How to center a cursor on the screen, even at the start of the file
I like always knowing where my cursor is. I do this by having it in the center line of the screen.
However if I am working at the top of the file the cursor stops centering because there is no more ...
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Stop vim from removing whitespace on save for diff files
I am currently trying to edit a git hunk file (a diff: .git/addp-hunk-edit.diff), and to say to git that a line containing whitespace is unchanged it needs to have (a line with a single space) as its ...
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ignoring spaces in search like ignoring cases
I frequently search in my files using /, and \c is really helpful in these situations. Is there any similar way to ignore white space and line breaks? It would really be nice to be able to add ...
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Toggle highlighting of trailing whitespace
I put the following lines from this page into my ~/.vimrc to highlight trailing whitespace in red:
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
autocmd BufWinEnter * ...
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How to add space around a symbol using vim?
I have following code. I want to add spaces around =. With the minimal keystrokes (May be with the help of macro). Do not want search and replace approach.
<div className="row">
<div ...
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Vim displaying incorrect indentation
I have encountered something that I have never seen before in Vim. While I was tentatively modifying some of the source code for software I've been planning to work on, I noticed vim was displaying ...
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From a TextChanged autocommand event, how to get the range that has been changed?
Problem
I am trying to implement "trimming trailing whitespace in changed lines only". For this purpose, I intercept TextChanged and TextChangedI autocmd events and record the current line (line(.)) ...
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SpecialKey foreground color w/ cursorline set
In this Q&A, it's observed that there is a highlight group for CursorLineNr, which applies to the line number for the cursor line when set cursorline is on.
I notice that using cursorline also ...
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delete entire line after first whitespace on every line
I have a file (around 1.6 million lines) which formatted like this:
-0.00697468 0 -1.95966e-49 101325 -3.06381
-0.00697468 0 -1.95966e-49 101325 -3.06381
-0.00697468 0 -1.95966e-49 101325 -3....
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Any way to display *all* characters?
So, I got it that Vim has no option to display all characters (including whitespace and CR and LF distinctly)
I already saw the question How to Display Hidden Characters in vim? and others on ...
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What does vim consider a paragragh?
Suppose I have the following piece of code through which I would like to navigate
===>Cursor is here and when I press {
SomeTest
{
line1
line2
line3
line4
...
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Fix spacing with vim
I would like to fix only spacing in badly formatted C/C++ source code.
The Vim command = fixes only indentation. Utility indent is not suitable, because it reformats totally all source code, but want ...
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Avoid spaces getting converted to tabs automatically during shift(>>)
I use 2 spaces as indentation. So I set shiftwidth using :set sw=2.
However when I do the shift operator(>>) on a line twice, the indentation converts the 4 spaces automatically to a tab. So to ...
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How does vimscript know which buffer these buffer-local variables use?
Consider the following vimscript:
function! DecideWhetherToStrip()
let l:search = @/
" Check if a file being opened has trailing spaces in the first place.
let b:dostrip = !search('\s\+$',...
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Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment
I am trying to make vim auto indent with tabs, and align with whitespaces, but actually, vim indent with tabs and fill the alignment with tabs + white spaces.
Vim does it :
(each block is a tab)
{
&...
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How to skip over indentation whitespace with horizontal motion?
I have a file that uses 4-space indentation. By default, when I move horizontally, Vim moves over those spaces one by one.
How can I configure Vim so that it moves 4 spaces horizontally when moving ...
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How to indent as spaces instead of tab?
I am coding some html templates in JADE files. I want to auto indent code with spaces instead of tab. I tried shiftwidth=2, tabstop=2, but no matter what, it's still indents using tabs instead of ...
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How can I make Vim position the cursor at the start of a tab character instead of the end?
Open an empty buffer and insert a tab character then exit to normal mode. When you place the cursor (normal mode) on the tab it will be at the right side of the whitespace. I'm looking for a way so ...
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How can I remove additional whitespace in the middle of line?
I know how to remove trailing white spaces at the end of lines.
Does anyone know how to remove white spaces in the middle of a line?
The white space I mean is before tab and after tab characters.
For ...
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How to split a line into multiple lines efficiently?
I've been receiving logged data in a text file that is just one long line with each value separated by a space. Is there a command or set of commands that will split one line into multiple lines?
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How to differentiate visually the white spaces in vim? [duplicate]
My goal were to somehow make visible, if a whitespace is space, tab, or even newline (and, ideally, in case of newline I would be happy to see \r\n and \n differently).
I am thinking to a similar ...
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equalprg to use for Python
Python is whitespace dependent, and it can't be totally autoindented for that reason, but there are a lot of extra stuff that should be possible to do automatically to comply with PEP8.
Things like ...
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Running cleanup commands only for edited lines possible?
Referring to clean-up tasks like (but not limited to) the ones detailed in these questions:
Re-indenting badly indented code
What's the simplest way to strip trailing whitespace from all lines in ...
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What's the simplest way to strip trailing whitespace from all lines in a file?
It's pretty common when programming or opening text files to encounter files with trailing whitespace at the end of a line. vim has a way to show this by setting the trail option in the listchars ...
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How to join lines without producing a space?
The standard J command for joining lines replaces the newline character(s) with a space. It's useful when editing 'literature' but can be troublesome if I, say, edit a hex dump by hand if I forget to ...
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Displaying tabs as characters
When I work on files in python, I sometimes mistake tabs for spaces and vice versa. Is there a way I can get Vim to display a character for a tab instead of a tab?
