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I want to keep my Vim spelling synchronised across machines. For that reason I put my spelling file into Dropbox by adding set spellfile=$HOME/Dropbox/vim/spell/en.utf-8.add to my .vimrc. It worked ...

Often, I'll load some information into a temporary buffer, and then close it with :clo!. But this hides the buffer rather than unloading it entirely, even though I have nohidden set. I find this ...

I have an autocommand defined in my vimrc: au BufWritePost * !./make.sh The script make.sh compiles a .tex file 3 times and I don't want the output to be displayed. Is there a way to suppress the ...

I am writing a plugin that highlights buffer settings violations. I use matchadd() function. In addition I need to add patterns that are force ignored. In order to achieve that I use priorities in ...

A lot of times I'm in a situation similar to this: 1. <Line 1> 2. <Line 2> 3. <Line 3> 4. <Cursor is here> 5. <I want to copy line 1 here> An easy solution is mm:1<...

Quite often, when using CTRL-O to jump back to an older position, vim takes me to other files I've been editing previously. Is there a command, to go back within the jumplist just in the current file?

I'm looking for a list of the basics, for instance, not a list of all the plugins, but plugin would be on my list; here is what I have so far help me out if I've missed anything or if I've mis-named ...

If I am using visual block mode to append to a block of text and number of characters exceeds 80, then the line snaps and text is not appended to rest of the block. I want to find a way such that line ...

I have encountered many situations in vim where it would be useful to have lookaround statements. I have tried using the standard lookaround syntax ((?=), (?!) etc ..), but it appears vim does not ...

Occasionally, when writing shell scripts and such, I have entries of the form: foo=/bar/baz To get filename completion (<C-x> <C-f>) to work, I have to put a space after the =, and then ...

I have vim save my undo history in files named something like .filename.js.un~, but I don't want this cluttering up my list of file in vim (in Netrw). Is there a way to exclude all files with a ...

As a poor-mans refactoring, I'd like to do a search and replace, but omit strings that are in double quotes (C/C++ quoting rules). For example cout << "Some variable " << variable <<...

How do I search in multiple files for 1st line of file matching a pattern? e.g. I want to search for files starting with ++ ++ Heading 1 and not + Heading 1 ++ Heading 2 Any pointers appreciated....

I am looking for English grammar checker for vim-latex suite that checks the grammar as I type but does not highlight what's inside $$ or \begin{equation} & \end{equation} commands. Is there any ...

Normally, when I use the up/down arrow keys to move between lines in insert mode (I'm using Vim wrong, I know), Vim remembers which column my cursor is in, so if I move to a line shorter than where my ...

When I have heredoc and I format it with gq I want it to be aligned in a way so each line starts at the same column like this: Long text goes here ... 80 chars | <- ...

Using :buffers results :buffers 1 %a "my-jspage.md" line 11 Are there any options so :buffers will list full path and filename? E.g.: :buffers 1 %a "d:\projects\self-org\my-...

Let say I have let l:letter = 'A' is there a function that takes l:letter ascii code and transforms it to 'B'? I mean something like let l:next_letter = l:letter + 1 I know there's <Ctrl-A> ...

I'm playing with ex and I've found that removing trailing spaces for multiple files in silent mode doesn't work as expected. The following examples doesn't work as expected (whatever I use argdo or ...

How can I move the cursor to the nth byte in the buffer? How can I display the current cursor position in the ruler in terms of the byte offset, rather than lines and columns? (Follow-up question: ...

I would like to be able to add the ’ character to iskeyword setting. I'm currently using this: " Count ’ as a part of words like I’m and you’re¬ au FileType plaintex,context,tex,latex,mail,markdown,...

When entering or doing any command mode modifications to a read only file for the first time you will get the warning W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file That's fine, but this also introduces a ...

The following command works as expected within vim: :args `find . -type f` as well as this one (with wildcard): :args `find . -name \*.inc` However when I run the following: :args `find . -type f ...

I just found out about the :colorscheme command. Is there a way that I can get a list of valid color schemes from Vim? I'd like to be able to do this from within Vim, not from a list somewhere on the ...

Is there a way to split a one-line instruction into several lines? For example, I'd like to transform setlocal variable_name = condition1 ? "1" : condition2 ? "0" : condition3 ? "a long string" : "...

I have set some options to configure completion on the command line, for commands that support it. I use the completion on the commandline very often with the :help command; That will be my example, ...

The command :%s/foo/bar/gc is to replace all "foo" by "bar" in the global field with confirmation. There are many "foo"s in my file within first 50 lines not to be changed. How can make this command ...

Let's say I have a line like this: a = x(y(z)); And I want to change it to: a = y(z); What's the most efficient way to do this?

I can find an answer to a similar problem here, however although I can get that example to function I can't get what I want to do to work. Here is the example text to be edited, a partial section of ...

I've opened the files I want to diff using the following command: C:\temp\robocopyTasks>vim -c "edit ++enc=ucs-2le" -d C:\temp\robocopyTasks\acl\tasks_temp.txt C:\temp\robocopyTasks\acl\tasks_win....

How does one set a vim option when launching from bash or another shell?

I have a pair of "Unicode little endian without BOM" text files that I would like to diff each other via the command line. Unfortunately when I open them using the command line in vim for Windows ...

Is there a plugin or a built-in feature in Vim that allows for elastic tabstops? I've searched a bit, and I found some references saying it was not possible in Vim, but those were quite old. Is ...

Given: $ cd ~/Sites/project project $ vim :NERDTreeFind I would like to see NERDTree opening with ~/Sites/project as a root folder. Instead I see ~/Sites with project folder selected. So I have to ...

I just learned of the existence of include-search, but even after reading :help include-searchand :help includeexpr I'm not sure what I need to do to have [I find included and required files. How do ...

I think this is not quite a duplicate, although it's close. I often work with multiple, slightly different, checkouts of the same multi-directory project. I'd like to be able to jump around using ...

The Mac latex editor 'TeXShop' has a great feature -- I can right-click anywhere in my tex and it shows me the corresponding character of the generated PDF. Similarly I can click on PDF and jump to ...

When syntastic or python-mode finds an error in my python file, they create a new column at the left-hand side of the window with flags at the lines where the errors are: This new column not only ...

I have three vertically split windows. I want the leftmost window to remain as it is, but move the two other windows from a vertical to a horizontal split. How can I achieve this? I want to get from ...

I have the syntastic and python-mode plugins installed and they both include syntax checkers. I think the python-mode syntax checker is more versitle for python files so I would like to just use that ...

I have the following file # # NODE / 11000001 1009.6809 -878.9679 316.3049 NODE / 11000001 1009.6809 -878.9679 316.3049 NODE / 11000001 1009.6809 -...

In Vim, when I run this command :!bash -c "ll", I get this error message bash: ll: command not found. ll is an alias in my ~/.bashrc file. If I just enter ll from bash it works. I created a ~/....

I work on a large project with many contributors and everyday I usually have to regenerate to keep this up to date and that is very time consuming. Do any of you have any unique solutions to help ...

I'm interested in using exuberant-tags (ctags) in vim, but I use Vim for all sorts of projects so I need multiple tag files and I need vim to use the correct tag file on a per project basis. Is there ...

I use a tiling window manager (awesome) + a terminal multiplexer (tmux) + splits inside of vim. I have no window decorations at all, so you there is no visual split between them at all if the content ...

At my workplace, I want to do a presentation of a custom language I've developed for solving some problems we had. For easier development, I created my own vim syntax file for this particular language....

Not sure if it's an appropriate question. But I just can't help wondering, why would any Vim user find it necessary to invoke a GUI search prompt instead of search using / or ?, why would the designer ...

I'm using Ubuntu system. I have files: A.txt, B.txt, C.txt I can split window in the following way: vim A.txt :vs B.txt // after entering into vim :vs C.txt Is there any way to achieve the same ...

I was playing around with the MiniBufExplorer plugin, and I thought it would be nice if the MBE window could stick to the bottom of my ViM screen, even if I specifically open a new window with e.g. :...

Occasionally I absentmindedly type :w when I'm reading something. This causes the modification time of the file to change and sometimes causes my build system to unnecessarily rebuild a substantial ...