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noevim lua module not found even though it exist
I have structured my neovim config files like this
~/.config/nvim
├── init.lua
└── lua
└── [username]
├── core
│ └── options.lua
├── init.lua
└── plugins
These ...
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How to bind two sequential keys to one fzf action?
I already know how to bind key to fzf action:
for example: --bind ctrl-d:page-down.
But I want to bind two sequential keys to an action, for example:
--bind ctrl-w+ctrl-d:page-down
Is that available?
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How do I change the color of the deleted text on the left side of a vimdiff?
My colors currently look like this, with the text highlighted green on both sides:
I would like it to be red on the left, and green on the right.
I tried to change the DiffDelete highlight, but that ...
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How to add fonts/icons to a remote terminal running on ubuntu vm?
I am using lunar vim, and want to add icons to a remote terminal running on ubuntu vm.
Is this possible?
On vm, output of echo $TERM is xterm-256color.
I tried the steps given here https://www....
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Cannot connect from python repl to neovim instance which waiting on '127.0.0.1:6666'
I tried to experiment with what the nvim documentation (connecting chapter in api.txt) says.
The experiment is to use python repl to execute an instruction to nvim listening for socket communication.
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Downloading "latest release" gives NVIM 0.7.2
Downloading the LInux package
nvim-linux64.tar.gz from
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/stable
downloads the version 0.7.2.
me@mycomp:~/Downloads/nvim-linux64/bin$ nvim --version
NVIM v0....
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If I set cmdheight=0 I get the "Press Enter or type command to continue" message
If I set my cmdheight=0 then any action I perform like saving the buffer or opening a new buffer or anything trigger the Press Enter or type command to continue message.
It annoys me. I want to ...
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Combine mapped commands in other mapping
How do I combine mapped commands into another mapping?
For example, I have two mapped commands, each of which enters a bracketed string at the end of the current line, and then leaves the cursor on ...
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Cancelling formatting from formatprg when not successfully exited?
Some format programs refuse to format malformed code, but instead sends an error message to stderr and exits with non-zero status. Vim does not seem to care about that, and simply puts on the error ...
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How would I bind a keybind that uses Rubber to compile the current file on NvChad?
I'm fairly new to NvChad and I'd like to learn how to bind a keybind <leader>t which executes rubber on the current file. My previous nvim setup had the code nnoremap <leader>t :!rubber --...
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How to use `Ctrl+c` in Nvim if GNOME terminal SIGINT call was remapped to Ctrl+x?
GNOME terminal SIGINT call was remapped to ctrl+x using stty intr ^X, and ctrl+c was mapped to be 'copy'. In Neovim config I have vim.keymap.set("v", "<C-c>", "\"+y&...
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fzf.vim - How to search git branch command with git log preview?
I'm trying to create neovim fzf command FzfGBranches to use git branch -a as query, and use git log --oneline as fzf preview:
command! -bang -nargs=0 FzfGBranches
\ call fzf#vim#grep(
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Neovim+PHP basic set up
I’ve been using Vim for years want to try out nvim and a bit confused. Can someone please assist me on how to set up a simple config with Lsp intelephense for php, commenting lines, show folds and fzf....
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Vim keybindings and proportional fonts
I want to use vim keybindings to write text other than code in school, but I find proportional fonts much easier to read than monospaced which is not possible in vim, gvim, neovim or any neovim ...
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How to match latin letters + their accented versions?
\a is equivalent to [A-Za-z] so it matches only non-accented letters.
I know of [=name-of-equivalence-class=], so I can clearly use something like \(\a\|[[=a=][=e=][=i=][=o=][=u=]]\), but I was ...
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Packer or config structure problem
I'm trying to port my nvim configuration to another desktop, but I can't seem to figure out how to make packer work.
I enter nvim and I don't see any errors regarding packer at startup, just about ...
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How to prevent left/right arrow from cycling through completion candidates on the :cmdline?
Say I have 4 files in current directory:
file-bar-01.txt
file-bar-02.txt
file-foo-01.txt
file-foo-02.txt
Next, I want to save current buffer to a new file file-foo-03.txt. So I enter :w f and then ...
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How does <cword> work in insert mode?
Basically I want to access the last \w\+ in my current insertion. (Hence I asked this question.)
Another solution I thought of was something like the following (I'm echoing, but clearly I'd pass it to ...
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Is it possible to type a single quote/paren/etc. when you have Vim mapped to always print two?
Recently I have been experimenting with ways to improve Vim's efficiently with keyboard mappings, and I have these mapped in order to make Vim behave like a graphical IDE:
inoremap " ""&...
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Using variable to find & replace while incrementing number with regex
Given the following text:
0 : Container(
alignment: Alignment.center,
padding: const EdgeInsets.all(24.0),
child: RichText(
text: TextSpan(
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Is it possible to have NERDTree open file in a selected window?
Suppose I have 4 split windows with window number 1 the file explorer and window number 2-4 different file buffers. Can I have NERDTree open a new file in a selected window, say window number 4? I ...
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Prevent <c-w>q to quit Vim when there is only one window left
I wish to close windows and wipe out the associated buffers with <c-w>q but at the same time I want to prevent to quit Vim when there is only one window left.
My attempt is as follows:
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How do I position cursor according to filetype (gitcommit)?
Sometimes on start, the cursor is not at the top in gitcommit buffers. I assume that this is because it wasn't on the first line the last time I exited a gitcommit buffer and the position was saved in ...
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How to show the current statusline definition?
I want to see the current statusline definition/string as loaded by Vim. So, taking into account :help statusline, if it is the default, the output would be empty, but if ruler is set (and nothing ...
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Command to set the window width
Using MacVim, I can manually drag the edge of the window (watching the numbers in the title bar) to whatever width I want.
Is there a command that will just immediately set it to a desired width? I ...
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Can we configure Vim tag following to be more intelligent?
In large code bases, there can be multiple hits for an identifier. Sometimes dozens. When you look up a tag, the first choice in the list is often some false positive you don't want.
The user ...
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How to remove paths starting with a certain pattern from a list of paths?
Say that I have the following list:
vim9script
g:my_paths = ['C:\Users\myname\Miniconda3\envs\myenv',
'C:\Users\myname\Miniconda3\envs\myenv\python310.zip',
'C\Mypath',
'C\Anotherpath',
'C:\Users\...
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NeoVim: Following the insturctions in ":h clipboard-wsl" not work? It shows "no provider" but also "ok" in ":checkhealth"?
I am using neovim on archlinux/WSL2, and try to communicate with the Windows clipboard in neovim.
Following the instructions in :h clipboard-wsl, I filled in init.lua with code:
vim.g.clipboard = {
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How do I add the fugitive commands to which-key?
How do I add things like ]c, ]m, etc. to which-key.nvim's menu?
I think I need to register these in some kind of on-attach script?
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Alt > or Alt < mappings do not work
I am trying to configure the key mappings for the barbar plugin commands, specifically the BufferMovePrevious and BufferMoveNext actions. The desired key combinations are Alt < and Alt >. ...
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How to efficiently highlight a region given a START and END position expressed as line_nr, col_nr?
Say that I want to highlight a region expressed in terms of two coordinates of the form (line, column), e.g. C1 = (l1, c1) to C2 = (l2, c2).
I read :h matchaddpos() but it seems that you can only ...
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Pattern works with / but it does not work when used in filter function()
I want to extract the the substring Python 3.11 from the strings like Python 3.11.2.release0 (i.e. I want to extract Python followed by the first two digits separated by a .). Such longer strings ...
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ALE lints but does not fix
I have ALE configured to lint and fix Ruby and Javascript files. Linting works as expected - the tools are found and I get info in the location list, etc. about changes to be made.
However, fixing the ...
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How to autoformat with efm-langserver
I just want autoformat on save, I don't want it to have any delay.
And they say efm-langserver is best choice.
After I installed via AUR yay -S efm-langserver, that's only I know what to do.
How do I ...
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Neovim append method does not works on matchpairs
I want to append <:> to vim.opt.matchpairs, which AFAIK is a string type.
Neovim lua doc says:
vim.opt:append()
Option:append(value)
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Is there any way to automatically adjust OS specific environment variables, path, etc. format?
Often in my scripts I have some ugly snippets like the following:
vim9script
var bin = ""
if has("win32")
bin = "\\bin"
else
bin = "/bin"
endif
g:...
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How to change the internal vim python sys.path?
I have learned that py3eval('print(sys.path)') return the sys.path used internally by Vim.
Say that i want add a new_path to the current sys.path. How shall I do?
I would appreciate solutions that ...
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LeftMouse focus window without moving cursor
Is there a way for clicking on a Vim window to focus that window if inactive (without moving the cursor), then move the cursor if the window is already active?
Here's what I've got so far:
function ...
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Export environment variable to Vimspector
I have some env vars set-up in my .bashrc but when I'm running Vimspector, those variables are not set-up. I want to export the env var when staring Vimspector, but I haven't managed to figure out how....
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Misunderstanding of interaction between local options, moving between windows, and WinLeave, WinEnter, BufLeave, BufEnter events
This what is logged in :messages when I'm printing the value of nu and rnu upon the 4 events WinLeave, WinEnter, BufLeave, BufEnter during the action, done twice, of opening :help and closing it. The ...
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Why does `Ex` apply to both splits? [duplicate]
I noticed that when I split multiple times in combination with Ex, for example I run the following commands
:Sexplore
:q
:Sexplore
It will open netrw in both splits. I expected it to only open in the ...
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Build Vim without the GUI version (gvim) [duplicate]
In Linux, I build and install Vim with make && make install from the project root. It builds and installs gvim along with console vim, but I didn't care.
In windows, I have to be slightly ...
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What do the cursor options do? Like; cursorline, cursorcolumn, cursoropts
Background
I was looking to change the shape of my cursor, the thing that tells you where you are, like the i-beam on this site.
Instead I got these options which highlight text, I don't know the use ...
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Is there any way to set ccze color scheme?
I want to use ccze color scheme for log file specific.
augroup LogColorscheme
autocmd!
autocmd FileType log colorscheme ccze
augroup END
However, this installed color scheme on system-wide
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How to yank while in visual mode without showing message?
When I'm in visual mode and I yank the selection (which has at least 3 lines), messages like these are shown:
4 lines yanked
block of 4 lines yanked
How can I suppress this so it won't appear in :...
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Vim - open wrong path when I run command ':vs .' run in Vim
When I run the :vs . command in Vim for the current working directory window split, the parent directory opens, not the current directory.
Example:
A/B/C$ vi test.c
in Vim:
:vs .
Split window ...
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What is the fastest way (lowest number of keys pressed) to add attribute to html tag?
For example, cursor shall be at "*":
<Typography
gutterBottom
component="h1"
variant="h4"
color="text.primary"
sx={{mb: 3}}
>
Che*ck this!
<...
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How to use variables inside autocmd?
I have defined the following augroup:
vim9script
augroup MY_AUGROUP
autocmd!
autocmd CursorMoved,CursorHold <buffer>
\ if index(b:line_numbers, line('.')) != -...
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Should I reinstall the YCM (YouCompleteMe) plug-in after :PluginUpdate?
I have the YouCompleteMe plugin installed. After the :PluginUpdate has been invoked should I repeat the installation process of the YouCompleteMe plugin ? I am 99% sure I should as I think the :...
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Proper regex to prevent a match when keyword is preceded by a period
I'm writing a color syntax highlighting file for a derivative of Pick Basic. Two of the oddities that this language allows is periods in variable names and embedding a keyword in a variable name, ...
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