Questions tagged [whitespace]
Question about how Vim handles non printable characters.
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Avoid colours of white space
Added a lot of stuff to my vimrc lately and I am not sure what is causing vim to colour the whitespaces. The colour disappears when I save the file. However I would like to disable this feature. Is ...
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Matching any Unicode whitespace
I'd like to match in Vim any whitespace character, not only normal space (U+0020) and tab (U+0009) with \s, and the other ASCII ones like form feed (U+000C) with [[:space:]], but any Unicode ...
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Keep whitespace from indent even on empty line [duplicate]
I am working with python files with filetype indent on. I like a lot of the default indenting features for python, but I would like vim to keep the tabs, even on empty lines.
For example, using set ...
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How to convert spaces on a line to tabs?
I know there's a way because it happened by accident. I was frenetically moving in a short region of text and at some point, with some wrong keystroke, the leading spaces on the line became a tab (and ...
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What is the shortkey for adding a space before a word in normal mode?
I have the following text:
#Text
My cursor is on character T; I want to obtain
# Text
i.e., to put a space between # and T, without "pressing i and then space". Instead, I want to do so in ...
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How to use different rules for highlighting trailing whitespace inside a gitcommit diff
In my ~/.vimrc, I have:
highlight TrailingWhitespace ctermbg=blue
autocmd BufReadPost * syn match TrailingWhitespace /\s\+\%#\@<!$/
This highlights trailing spaces, except when I am still typing ...
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Why do some Ex commands not need a white space before a path argument?
For example, why does this work:
edit/home/foo/bar.txt
(I had to enter visual to see the changes)
I was expecting a whitespace after edit, like:
edit /home/foo/bar.txt
I couldn't find a reference in ...
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Stop vim from deleting expanded tab as a block of spaces
I am on CentOS 8.1 and using vim 8.0.1763. When I open a python file, e.g. vim tmp.py, I type tab and it inserts 4 spaces (see .vimrc below). When I type delete, it deletes all 4 spaces. I want it ...
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<Space> doesn't insert a space within a function
So I'm trying to have a function type out a space which goes as follows:
function! UnderlineHeading(level)
if a:level == 1
normal! yypVr=
elseif a:level == 2
normal! yypVr-
else
...
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Turning the `match` command on and off
I found this useful setting form this post, which highlights trailing whitespaces :
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=grey guibg=grey
noremap <F10> :match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/<CR>
This ...
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How to delete and replace a block of text with spaces?
What I want to do
I want to select a block of text in Vim, delete it, and replace the selected block with spaces.
Example
Suppose I have the following text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ...
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Function to remove all trailing whitespace
I have the following function to remove every trailing white space from the document, without changing my cursor position
function! StripTrailingWhitespaces()
let l = line('.')
let c = col('.')
...
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What option controls how much space is added after a new line?
When I set tw vim will auto wrap lines at tw. When breaking that line vim usually places some spaces to keep the indentation of the previous line. Example
foo
bar<suppose that a wrap happens ...
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Leading blank line with execute function()
When I run :echo execute('echo "oh"') I get a leading blank line before the "oh" message. This happens with when I use no vimrc as well. Why is this?
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Disable automatic whitespace marking in red
I am experiencing a behavior as depicted in the picture below: vim marks the redundant spacing in red.
I would like to completely remove this behavior. At the moment my .vimrc file reads as:
set ...
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Visual indicator for a file that doesn't end in newline
Inside of my editor (almost fresh install of neovim) there is no visual way to distinguish between a file that ends in a newline and a file that doesn't.
In my command line (zsh default?) there is a ...
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Listchar for Preceding Indentation Space
At the moment, I'm trying to highlight the spaces/tabs used for indentation and the end-of-line with special characters.
Although I prefer tabs over spaces I also need the spaces highlighted in order ...
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Moved from vim to neovim and now <BS> deletes 4 spaces at a time, instead of 1 as I'm used to. How to fix?
I've used vim for ages and am really used to inserting four spaces by hitting tab, but then being deleting them one by one. Now that I've switched to neovim this has changed to it inserting four ...
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Moving to the end of the last word on a line
There are commands to distinguish between the beginning of a line (0) and the beginning of the first word of the line (^), basically ignoring leading whitespace. But I can only find one way to move ...
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Delete whitespace before and after word
I have some text with two dashes:
This is some text -- with two dashes.
I want to delete the space before and after the dashes:
This is some text--with two dashes.
Is there a way this can be done ...
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Stop Vim from deleting trailing whitespace [closed]
Vim automatically strips trailing whitespace from my files on save, which is extremely annoying in various contexts. How do I disable this behaviour?
This question is not a duplicate of this one, ...
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Replace tabs with appropriate number of spaces
I have this texts
drwxr-xr-x enan enan Jan 15 16:10 Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x enan enan Jan 16 20:09 Documents/
drwxr-xr-x enan enan Jan 20 19:52 Downloads/
drwxr-xr-x enan ...
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Expandtab converts spaces to newline character?
When I enabled expandtab in vim by putting these in .vimrc:
set tw=4
set expandtab
Vim comverted every space typed by me to a newline character.
Like with the above settings whenever I type a new ...
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On the length of tabs after an initial character
Length of tabs after initial char
Start gvim with the --clean option, to get a clean slate, and then do:
:set noet ts=5 sts=3 sw=2
Then enter the following
1234567890
and on the next line, press ...
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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, ...
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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 doesn't use the correct indentation in Python files
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(.)) ...
