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If available, :%!uniq is the easiest answer. If you don't mind sorting, :sort u is nice. The long way uses only builtins: :let lines = getline(1, '$')->uniq() :%delete :call setline(1, lines)

Since the OP is dealing directly with manpages, I suggest :runtime plugin/man.vim (Which can be put in startup files), followed by :Man command Also see help MANPAGER

If it is indeed a single character, it’s likely to be <C-\>. You can use ga to get the ascii, octal, etc., versions. For grep(1), most shells (my bash, at least) will let you input literals with <C-v …

That “buffer” is netrw. It notoriously has this issue, although in practice it’s not a huge deal. I tend to swap files by name or argument list (:args) more often than cycling through buffers. In ot …

To quote the help: *gf* *E446* *E447* [count]gf Edit the file whose name is under or after the cursor. Mnemonic: "goto file". Uses the 'isfna …

According to :help drag-n-drop and :help :drop, it doesn't seem like this behavior is change-able. The help also says If Vim happens to be editing a command line, the names of the dropped files and …

From Hotschke in the comments: Please read :help load-plugins: In step (4) basically :runtime! plugin/**/*.vim happens which is before your gvimrc is sourced (step (8)) and runtimepath has been ch …

The syntax of :substitute is :[range]substitute/pattern/replacement/[flags] (Although / can actually be any character, which is helpful for when the pattern contains slashes.) Notice that the deli …

I don't know exactly what causes this, but I would try the following workarounds if it's important to you to setup the splits on startup (it usually isn't for me—I either have a session with saved lay …

You don't need to use a character class around <, and you should probably not use a greedy .* match (would break on <<Label1>> <<Label1>>). This worked for me: syntax match PLS_label "<<[^>]\+>>" (th …

The mailing list discussion confirmed a bug in the abaqus.vim ftplugin, which has since been patched. Options for the current user are (according to lacygoill on the mailing list): Wait for the next …

Since font is specific to the GUI versions of vim (i.e. gvim and macvim), you need to should put the set guifont=... line in your gvimrc. …

One slightly hacky workaround that I’m not entirely satisfied with is to use the space character for listchars tab: execute 'set listchars+=tab: ' (Note that there are 2 spaces; the first characte …

You can use views if viewoptions contains options or localoptions, but views are really meant to store window information (which happens to include the current buffer). Sessions similarly are more ab …

Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) works in most unix terminals I’ve used and is more forceful than Ctrl-c (SIGINT). Try it when a program is misbehaving (but be careful hammering it in a nested context, where you mig …