Questions tagged [whitespace]
Question about how Vim handles non printable characters.
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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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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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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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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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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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