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How to pass '\v\C[pattern]' into the built-in match() VimScript function
I am attempting custom fold logic as my first VimScript.
What works for me: USING VERY MAGIC (\v) and explicit CASE SENSITIVE (\C), find python comments in foo.py that begin with hash, then Roman ...
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How do I create the help system for Vim?
I built Vim from source and unfortunately when doing this the help system is not created (in other words you get an error if you execute :h). What is the procedure for creating the help system?
This ...
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Any way to add an existing Vim environment to a tmux session?
If I already have vim running with numerous documents open and I want to use tmux, it seems that I have to quit vim, start the tmux session and then reopen everything again.
Is there anyway to start ...
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How to show the left-hand side of insert mode mappings while invoking them in Neovim
Much like what was asked in this question:
I want Neovim to show what I type, and keep recognising it as a mapping in progress even if I use Backspace or Delete. This is actually a very useful ...
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Vim Airline no GitBranch name [doing echo fugitive#head() shows correct branch]
I have Fugitive vim and Airline vim installed via Vundle. I installed them as follow:
Plugin 'https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git'
Plugin 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
Airline status works fine. ...
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YCM is not working with .ycm_extra_conf nor compile_comands.json on Windows
I have problems using YCM plugged for C-family languages.
Here are what I have done:
project layout
-- build
-- src
-- source file dir0
-- include
main.cpp
-- source file dir1
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Number in the beginning vs. number in the end
Yes, I know that d2e and 2de are two different commands and therefore works slightly different, though it's not visible to the eyes.
Let's call them "number-in-the-middle" (nim) and "number-in-the-...
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How do I get Vim (with TComment) to do proper block comments in OCaml?
(I have TComment installed, and I'm on NeoVim 0.4.0.)
Given this code, for example:
let mem key st =
let is_matching_key = function
| Positional _ -> false
| Flag f -> f.name == key
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How to diagnose configuration---:w doesn't always work [duplicate]
I've somehow introduced a problem in my Vim configuration and I don't know how to track down where the problem is. Sometimes (most times) when I do :w then the buffer is not actually written; ...
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How can I reproduce a Linting Plugin Behavior
I'm trying to get in to plugin writing, and currently I'm doing some builds (like Latex and LanguageTools checker), and I have in place hotkeys that call for the compilation, and It throws the output ...
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Ugly black thing when using :ls with colorscheme [duplicate]
I installed gruvbox color-scheme. Then I did :ls and saw this:
After ".vimrc" there's some black stuff. It is kind of ugly and makes it harder to read. Is there any way to fix this?
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Mapping Buffer Movement [duplicate]
How can I configure Vim and MacVim to respond to control-arrow and meta-{h,l} key-presses? The configuration below is ignored by both.
I'm using iTerm2 (version 3.2.7), Tmux (version 2.8), and Vim (...
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Editing file on remote host using scp not working
I'm trying to edit a file on a remote host using vim scp://user@host//path/to/file
However, vim just displays "Stopped" and crashes.
Here is the log thats produces when I run vim -V9 scp://user@host//...
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BufRead autocmd error for "*.*" and E45
I have vim version 7.4.1689. It was running quite smoothly. But recently I noticed a problem that I didn't have before. Whenever I run :help <something> in command mode the following error shows ...
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Select characters in Visual mode (works differently than Normal mode)
I'm trying to understand the difference in character counting between Normal and Visual modes.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.
The task is to copy everything from ...
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How to get the current word starting from the cursor?
In vimscript expand('<cword>') gives me the word under the cursor.
How can I get the word under the cursor starting at he current cursor location (skipping the word start).
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How to bind command+s to save file on macOS?
I have a Macbook. I want to save files by pressing command + s (this should happen if it is in insert mode or not, and I want it to go to non-insert mode after it is saved).
How do I do this?
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How does (neo)vim set $PATH for system(['command'])
When I want to call an external program, I have the option of spawning a shell or not.
system('my command') will spawn a shell (executing your .bashrc/etc and all it seems).
system(['my command']) ...
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"--INSERT--" doesn't go away with a remapped escape key
I remapped the Esc key to jj as follows:
inoremap jj <esc>l
If I only put <esc> the cursor is always one letter to the right, however once I add the l the notification message --INSERT -...
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Loading UTF keymap file
I need to load a particular keymap file that enables me to write underscore, special characters by typing
:set keymap=iast
where iast.vim is my keymap file
This no longer works. Where should this ...
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How to properly organize persistence of the vim state of all opened buffers?
Before switching to vim years ago I was using Sublime Text and it perfectly handled situations when I just close it and open again. Nothing is lost and at the place where I left it off. So I'm aiming ...
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Vim syntax line matching mechanism
Can someone explain or link to valid explanation information on the syntax highlighting mechanism. In particular I am having having a hard time understanding how rules are applied.
Imagine the ...
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Blockwise pasting from "+ register not working
UPDATE: I run an X server (XQuartz 2.7.11) on MacOS, which I forward via ssh to any Linux machine I use. The problem seems to be that under XQuartz, the "+ register does not support blockwise yanking/...
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How to get the same message and error behavior as normal `n` when calling `normal n` in function
I wrote a vimscript function that prevents the cursor from changing its location on the screen when I press n:
function! s:my_n()
let l:start=line("w0")
let end = line("w$")...
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In PHP files, how can I auto close HTML tag pairs and indent the new line?
I have been a Vim user for several years now and I haven't been able to find a solution to this issue. There have been a lot of questions on the internet that try to address it, but none of the ...
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Displaying specific text only in the airline of a given window
Suppose that using bufwinnr() I find the windows number where a given buffer is being displayed to be 2.
With that information, is there a way to display a specific string only in the airline status ...
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install / repair help system
I built vim from source on Arch Linux and the help system is not present. I do not see any help-related options when I do vim --version.
I assume it is either broken somehow or not installed. How can ...
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inoremap inserts unwanted tabs
I recently made myself custom insert mode keybindings to type faster in LaTeX. However, When I use them, Vim adds tabs that weren't part of the original keybinding.
Example:
Here is my inoremap:
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How to limit a key binding to a single key
I'm having trouble putting to words what I'm looking for, please mark as duplicate if appropriate
I have a key binding that launches a search based on a fuzzy finder (specifically bindings to fzf and ...
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What is the [0/0] that pops up in corner of tmux vim if I try to scroll up?
When I'm in vim on tmux with terminal and I scroll up, the cursor will jump to where my mouse is and show a [0/0] on the right corner of my window. When that happens, I can't type or move the cursor ...
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How to show "/foobar match 1 of " or "E486: Pattern not found: foobar" in commandline when calling `normal! n` in function [duplicate]
I'm calling normal! n in a vimscript function.
If there is a match, I don't get the message /foobar match 1 of 3 in the commandline.
If there is no match, my commandline shortly flickers up and down ...
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Is there a C++ format plugin just like Visual Studio
Coding C++ in Visual Studio, if you type ;, this line will be formatted. For example, typing a ; after int i= 1+ 2 will make this line as int i = 1 + 2;, which means that each operator is surrounded ...
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Grep on type with delay. Scripting / Looking for plugin
I use fzf.vim (with rg) to search through (grep) my project.
The problem with this implementation is that (from what I understand) fzf.vim joins all the files (adding filename at the beginning of the ...
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In Vim 8.1, ":term ipython" gives a different version of IPython than typing "ipython" on an already open terminal
When I open a Gnome terminal in my Ubuntu 18 and execute the command ipython, I start an Anaconda IPython terminal version 5.8.0. Within Vim 8.1, that is what I also get if I first open a Vim terminal ...
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Configuration from Vim 7 (macOS) to Vim 8 (Ubuntu) results in errors
I'm working long time with my own vimrc and lots of adjustments for different file types, ... in the macOS terminal (Vim 7.4.8056)and (the same config-files) on a rented Apache Server.
Now I just ...
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Are there already a series of switches/commands/aliases to initiate vim and auto backup to new file when writing out
...with confirmation that is somewhat similar to the "you are in RO mode" that you get as a layer of security if you run the command as view.
I want a single command [that I may alias to something ...
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Why does second const VARNAME not have syntax highlighting?
I copied and pasted a .php file and edited it. It went from:
<?php
class Foo
{
const RESET = 'reset';
to
<?php
class Foo
{
const RESET = 'reset';
const ...
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Asterisk search does not find text with question marks
In gvim normal mode, the * key searches for the word under the cursor.
Say I have a file with the following lines:
life
alifexea a_life_xea
a life x
a=life
life=a
b=life;
c=b?life:a;
life?
?life
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terminal shell behaves differently from normal shell
I run this command in a common terminal:
$ ps aux | grep work | grep python | awk '{print $2}'
Then I have three different pids, however, in the vim-term window, the same line gave me two pids. ...
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Using horizontal scroll commands without setting `nowrap`
I tend to use a lot of vertical splits in my vim (version 8.1, via Arch Linux official repos) usage (on top of tabs, horizontal splits, tmux, etc.), and it gets frustrating when many of my lines wrap ...
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make vim produce patch files without editing originals
I want to edit text files with vim, I would love
vim file.txt
To work like normal, and open file.txt in vim, like normal, and allow me to edit it seemingly like normal.
The only difference is, all ...
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Apply the new setup of .vimrc to the file open to the other tab in the terminal [duplicate]
I have two tabs on my terminal. The first one is where I'm doing my project (html & css). On the other tab I'm working on my .vimrc. I added a new plugin (nerdcommenter) and it works on the .vimrc ...
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set shortcut depending on filetype [duplicate]
For some markup and programming languages I use VIM and the usual procedure for me checking if my code works is :w and !<compile>. Depending on the filetype <compile> can be very different ...
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i<c-e> and i<c-y> copy to end of line
In insert mode <c-e> and <c-y> copy a character at a time from the above line.
I generally use these when working with aligned bits of text inside a program and want to copy to the end of ...
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Matching 'Capitalized' words in Vim
I'm trying to use the following regex to match 'Capitalized' words:
"\l\@<!\<\u\w\+"
Which matches 'Main' and 'Canvas' in:
public class Main extends Canvas
Or another example, matches all ...
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Automatically uncompress section of buffer
I'm using a simple text file in Vim as a task manager and am keeping completed tasks in an archive section of the same file. I'd like to compress that section of the buffer when saving changes to a ...
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Multiline search like with f and F [duplicate]
I'm using vim for C programming and I have a question about jumping to the next/previous character. I can use f or F to jump to the next or previous character correspondingly. But this does not work ...
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aliased commands don't work with the shell ex command? [duplicate]
I have a number of aliased commands in my .bashrc and they work fine on the command line. However, if I use them in Vim, they do not work. For example:
:!mycommand
results in:
/binbash: mycommand: ...
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Automatically reindent lines filtered through formatprg
I have following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<graph id="G" edgedefault="undirected">
<edge id="e6" source="n5" target="n4"> <data key="d1">1.1</...
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Fixing pug syntax highlighting
Update
I've managed to get the top part of the file fixed with syn region pugJavascriptLine start=/^\s*-/ end=/$/ contains=@htmlJavascript from this programmer: https://github.com/digitaltoad/vim-pug/...
