Questions tagged [whitespace]
Question about how Vim handles non printable characters.
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How Can I Use The Error Color for `guibg` and `ctermbg`
I have the following Vim code which highlights trailing whitespace in red:
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
But instead of making the color "red"...
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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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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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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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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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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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Only highlight trailing whitespace in normal mode
I have some code in my ~/.vimrc to highlight trailing whitespace.
" Highlight trailing whitespace
hi TrailingWhitespace ctermbg=red guibg=red
matchadd("TrailingWhitespace", '\v\s+$')
I ...
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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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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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<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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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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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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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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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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Next paragraph - don't skip lines with white spaces
When using { and } to skip to the next paragraph, the behavior is unpredictable since I can't see white spaces. I have tried to show line endings to see which lines have spaces, but I don't like the ...
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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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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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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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What is the empty space in this document and how do I. get rid of them
Here is my document:
What is the thing that my cursor is on? It is definitely not a whitspace as all white space should be marked with ␣.
And more importantly, how do I get rid of it?
I have tried
:g/...
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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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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 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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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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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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Convert spaces to tabs on only one line
So I know that, in Vim, I can use the :retab command to convert an entire file from multiple-spaces to tabs or from tabs to spaces, depending on the value of :set expandtab.
But is there a way that I ...
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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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How do I add spaces to a file path in vimrc?
I am trying to set the shell to git bash in my vimrc.
I have this:
The code says:
set shell=C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe
But because there's a whitespace in Program Files, it acts as a separate ...
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Vim search: how to factor in the white space during the search?
Doing a search with / can be useful, however, it becomes harder to find things if the term you are searching for is a part of other words. I have a large text document with notes i've made about the ...
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zf add fold marker comments with preceding spaces
Setting foldmethod=marker, I can highlight a few lines, press zf to fold them. By default vi will add {{{ and }}} at the ends of the beginning and ending lines. I am working on shell scripts with ...
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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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How to configure pylsp installed by Mason with lsp-zero for nvim?
I want to disable a specific error/warning - E203.
This is my lsp.lua where I tried to add ignore config according to this doc from lsp-zero git
local lsp = require("lsp-zero")
lsp.preset(&...
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How to make `lead` override `trail` in listchars
I have the following lines in my .vimrc.
set list
set listchars=lead:·,trail:⎵
Whenever I have a line consisting of only spaces, the character shown is ⎵.
How can I make vim prefer · in this scenario?...
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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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Remove blank lines appearing between non-blank lines without a regex?
What is the quickest way to un-doublespace in Vim, without using a regex?
I.e., convert
line one
<emptyline>
line two
<emptyline>
line three
to
line one
line two
line three
There's gotta ...
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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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