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Fully disable mouse in console Vim
You should add the following two lines at the end of /etc/vim/vimrc :
set mouse=
set ttymouse=
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Execute current buffer as bash script from vim
I wrote a pretty extensive answer about this over on stack-overflow. The basic idea is that since the write command is about writing not saving, you can write the text in your buffer into an external ...
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How to run the history search in Vi mode in bash
There certainly is Vim style searching in bash/readline. In fact, your command line is essentially a scaled down version of the Vim editor with a significant number of Normal mode commands available ...
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VIM: how to send entire line to a buffer of type "Terminal"?
Here is a solution using Vim's term_sendkeys()
open a vim terminal and start the REPL
check which buffer the terminal is in with :ls
this example assumes the terminal is in buffer 2
cmd to copy the ...
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Why do exclamation ! shell commands in GVIM show error: "syntax error near unexpected token (" for "ls() ("?
Instead of adding -i to shellcmdflags and reading your entire .bashrc just for loading aliases, keep your aliases in a separate file, like ~/.bash_aliases for Ubuntu, and add to your vimrc:
let $...
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Open multiple files in custom split layout
You could try it like this:
vim -c "lefta vsplit file2.txt|split file1.txt" file3.txt
With the option -c you can specify commands that should be executed after the first file was loaded.
So ...
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How to set the vim path to your bash PATH?
&path has nothing to do with $PATH.
Also $PATH is set and used. See :echo $PATH.
You should also be able to change its value with :let $PATH = $PATH.':some/path' -- there are a few write only ...
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vi editing of bash command line: Avoid execution upon exit?
I often just prepend the command with #. After exiting vim it's then in the bash history.
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Open multiple files in custom split layout
Actually, you don’t need saved sessions for this; vim -S will happily accept any file containing vimscript. So, write some commands for your custom layout (stolen from the other answer)
edit file3
...
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Fully disable mouse in console Vim
This might work if you put it at the end of your .vimrc
set mouse=c
It's probaly not Vim that takes the mouse input, but rather your Terminal-emulator. To disable mouse support on your terminal this ...
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Source a vimrc from a webpage?
From :h -u:
-u {vimrc} The file {vimrc} is read for initializations. Most other
initializations are skipped; see |initialization|. This can
be used to start Vim in a special mode, ...
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Execute current buffer as bash script from vim
Scenario: you are working in bash shell. First, make sure the local edit mode is vi:
$ set -o vi
Now, when you find yourself working on a long command like the following, hit Esc+v.
$ fjhwfq this ...
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Execute Vim commands from shell
From vim manpage:
-c {command}
{command} will be executed after the first file has been read. {command} is interpreted as an Ex
command. If the {command} ...
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Run processes in shell while editing in Vim
For general purpose multi-window terminal experience, look into tmux. Tmux, a terminal multiplexer, provides functionalities to split a terminal window into several vertical and horizontal splits, ...
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Shell syntax highlighting
This is because the original Bourne shell only understands `...` - the standard $( ... ) syntax was added later. From syntax/sh.vim:
" $() and $(()): {{{1
" $(..) is not supported by sh (...
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Syntax highlighting for shell scripts broken
It is a known bug which is fixed in the author's source code, see author's reply.
It should appear sometime in the future in main vim runtime.
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Why doesn't vim recognize bash self-made functions
External commands are not executed in an interactive shell so your .bash_profile is not read. To make your custom command available you must turn it into an actual shell script, put it in your $PATH, ...
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Bash not recognizing aliases when run from Vim
Here's a strategy I use for this that utilizes the BASH_ENV which you can read about in man bash (and below). This strategy focuses specifically on what I want made available in vim.
When bash is ...
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How to comment a line directly from bash using vim?
You can use:
vim +'normal! 2GI;' +'x' path/to/your/file
The + parameter allows to execute a command after opening the buffer.
The first command normal! 2GI; goes to line 2 and add a ; at the ...
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How to prevent accidentally piping text to Vim?
As @chicks pointed out, you can place this script in your PATH:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [[ "$#" -ne 0 ]] || [[ -t 0 ]]; then
exec vim "$@"
else
exec vim -
fi
I am using a variant of this ...
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VIM: how to send entire line to a buffer of type "Terminal"?
As Luc Hermitte pointed out, you can use :h term_sendkeys to send commands to terminal buffer, the hard part is to manage the terminal buffer:
function s:exec_on_term(lnum1, lnum2)
" get terminal ...
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How to restart vim from within vim?
Add this in your vimrc:
nno <space>R :<c-u>call <sid>vim_quit_and_restart()<cr>
fu! s:vim_quit_and_restart() abort
if has('gui_running') | echo 'not available in GUI' | ...
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How can you use vim as a stream editor?
To avoid screen flashes when editing stream non-interactively, you need to start Vim in Ex mode by adding -e (Ex mode) or -E (improved Ex mode) into your command-line arguments.
Here is the simple ...
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vi editing of bash command line: Avoid execution upon exit?
How to do it
Bash doesn't seem to provide builtin support for this in form of a readline function like it does for editing and executing. However, there is bind -x command to invoke arbitrary shell ...
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Source a vimrc from a webpage?
AFAIK, source doesn't let you source anything other than a file.
This function is a little bit dirty but it works:
function! GetAndSource(url)
execute '!curl ' . a:url . ' -o vimrc.vim'
source ...
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Vim won't return to foreground
If you are seeing this when using zsh versions 5.7 through 5.8.1, it is due to a known bug that has been fixed by Erik Paulson in zsh 5.9:
https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2021/msg01255.html
What's ...
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multiple shell command execution failed
Quoting from the help (:h E34)
Any '!' in {cmd} is replaced with the previous external command
And further in the help (:h :bar)
These commands see the '|' as their argument, and can therefore ...
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Why do I get "incompatible error" while opening .sh files using vi in cygwin?
The option name is nocompatible. Replace incompatible with nocompatible to solve your problem.
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Shell running inside vim windows
You need Vim 8.1, then you can use the following command:
:below terminal ++rows=10
Normally a terminal is opened above the current window, but with below it is opened at the bottom. And in this ...
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Cannot sort my bash functions correctly
Try to add the negative offset -1 to the second line specifier in the range passed to the first substitution command:
v
:g/^function /,/^}/- s/\n/@@@
:sort /^function /
:%s/@@@/\r/...
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