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How can I alias a command with arguments?
it doesn't seem to pass in the argument
Because you haven't passed it. The right syntax is:
command! -nargs=1 Vres vertical resize <args>
Simply read :help :command until the very end to know ...
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Keep specific parts of a :s command in nvim
Yes and no. Depends a lot on the complexity of the documents. Textile has a lot of various formats for links and Markdown has it's share.
Keeping pattern
When you do a substitute you can capture parts ...
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Is it possible to have vim run a command every time save `:w` is invoked?
Does something like this exist?
In Vim this is called an autocommand. The relevant help topic can be found by typing :h autocommand (sic!)
An example code to put into vimrc:
augroup typescript_save ...
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Define w< command
The reason why the approach using user commands (with :command!) does not work is that user commands are quite restricted in how they are allowed. They must always start with an uppercase letter (so ...
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creating a ":KeepCursor" command
Can it be written?
Yup.
command! -nargs=* -complete=command KeepCursor
\ let [s:view, s:win] = [winsaveview(), win_getid()] |
\ try |
\ execute <q-args> |
\ finally |
...
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how does vim make the difference for "i" between the insert mode and the inner word
Vim keeps what you type in memory, even when it seems to have no effect on the screen, this allows you to apply modifiers to commands.
To see what modifiers you typed, and will be applied to the next ...
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how does vim make the difference for "i" between the insert mode and the inner word
This is the description of c in the help file:
["x]c{motion} Delete {motion} text [into register x] and start insert.
The register is optional, but the motion is mandatory. A lone c makes ...
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What does the command option '-range=N' do?
Using the -range flag when defining a user-command usually allows the user to provide a range to the command:
command -range Mine echo <range> <line1> ',' <line2>
%Mine
1,/bar/Mine
"...
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How to add modifier to user defined command?
You can use :h <mods> to do this, it expands to modifier or nothing. It's added at patch 7.4.1898
command Foo call FooSplit(<q-mods>)
function FooSplit(mods)
exe a:mods 'new'
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How to define a command if the function needs to take an argument from the script itself?
The problem is that, in the body of your EchoMessage() function, text does not refer to the value passed in, but instead to a different local variable. Use a: to refer to parameters passed in:
echom ...
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'@' in file names and 'gf' (go to file)
Am I missing something here?
Yes, as written in :h 'isfname':
If the character is '@', all characters where isalpha() returns TRUE
are included. Normally these are the characters a to z and A ...
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How do I quit vi/Vim/NeoVim?
In short, hit the Esc key to make sure you're in "Normal" mode, then type :q (which will appear on the last line of the screen) and press the Enter.
If Vim complains that you have unsaved ...
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Why does `<Bar>` behave like `|` in the `:command` command in Vim?
So I went digging for this one and as far as I can tell this behavior has been present ever since the user-defined command feature was introduced in Vim 5.2.
Initially I thought this was present ...
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text replace problem when target contains '&' symbol
& in a replacement is a bit special:
magic nomagic action
& \& replaced with the whole matched pattern *s/\&*
But you can escape it with \:
%substitute/\Vif(cond1)/...
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Repeating command for running external script?
Based on :help v:count:
*v:count* *count-variable*
v:count The count given for the last Normal mode command. Can be used
to get the count before a mapping. Read-only. ...
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Print Command Without Hitting Enter
I’d recommend an <expr> mapping—make the following changes:
nnoremap <expr> <Leader>b BuildSystemTask()
And then in your function:
if inProject()
return ':make! '
else
return '...
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creating a ":KeepCursor" command
Can it be written?
Possibly, but it might be a lot harder than expected. Because, what do you do with commands that close the current window? Or commands, that add lines above the current cursor ...
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How to pass everything from a command into a function with escaped characters
You must add -nargs=1 to your command:
:command -nargs=1 FooCommand :call Foo(<q-args>)
This tells Vim not to treat white space as separator. Only white space between the command name and the ...
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set a default value to a command that acccepts two arguments?
Here's the general idea...
func! MakeHLine(...) abort
" Default delim char and width
let l:ch = '#'
let l:tw = 78
" Override defaults per given parameters
if a:0
...
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Append inside brackets, quotes, double quotes
There's not a command that follows the ci... structure to do that. You can
add a remap to do it (see below), or use core vim commands f and t (and
their counterparts F and T) motions to get the cursor ...
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How can I make a command that checks iteratively through parent roots until it finds something or reaches C:/?
You can use the findfile() function, together with the file-searching features in order to try to find the path to a file up the directory tree.
For example:
:echo findfile('top-level.txt', '.;')
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Neovim E276 - Command works in Vim but Not in Neovim
In VimScript the function composition can be written in two ways, either "traditional" g(f(x)), or "method" notation f(x)->g().
However, the latter one must be defined by ...
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Passing arguments to function in remapping
Those are mappings, not "remappings".
You can use :help getcharstr() to, well… get one character from the user:
xnoremap <expr> <key> Wrap("w", getcharstr())
nnoremap &...
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How to use variables in a user defined command?
Can simply use exec and . to build the command:
let PathToPluginsFolder = ~/.vim/plugins
command! PS silent! exec ':w | PlugSnapshot! ' . PathToPluginsFolder . '/plugins.lock'
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In command mode make delete not act like backspace
To change the behavior of <Del> so that it only deletes the character under the cursor and doesn't behave like backspace when at the end of the line, you can use the following mapping:
cnoremap ...
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In command mode make delete not act like backspace
You can use the following function:
function KillEnd()
let l:cmd = getcmdline()
let l:pos = getcmdpos()
let l:newcmd = strpart(l:cmd, 0, l:pos - 1)
return l:newcmd
endfunction
To use it on ...
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execute + colon character doesn't work
You're missing a final <CR> at the end of your normal command. If at the end of normal you have an incomplete command, it will cancel it as if <Esc> or <C-c> was pressed.
So this ...
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What does + preceding command do in vim
The + isn't preceding the setlocal command, so much as following the :new command: it's running the setlocal command in the newly created window.
See :help :new and :help +cmd for more details.
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Making custom command behave like ":echo" with respect to quotes
For this particular task it's much much easier to do simply
:filter /txt$/ oldfiles
The error is due to -bar argument: the quote is parsed like a comment sign, and so the rest of the command is lost (...
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Is it possible to execute keys/commands in select mode?
By keys I mean like being Normal mode and pressing e (takes you to end of [next] word), by commands I mean like being in Normal mode and pressing Shift+; and typing :delete.
Yes. From Select mode, ...
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