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Multiple cursors at desired location
Using multiple cursor isn't a Vimmer thing
As I said in the comments using multi cursors (even with a plugin) isn't really "following the Vim way", I totally understand that it is attractive for ...
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How do I make Vim always display several lines after EOF?
You can use ctrlE to scroll down your file, when you are at the end of the file it will add "virtual" line so the last line of the file is not at the bottom of the windows.
Additionally you can use ...
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I can't switch to | cursor in insert mode
Neovim does not use vimrc it uses $XDG_CONFIG_PATH/nvim/init.vim. Yet, there is more to it. In Vim you should use \<esc> to represent the escape key. I can change the cursor on Arch Linux on ...
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Is there a prepend insert mode?
If you set :set revins you can insert backwards.
See also :h ins-reverse:
o Typing backwards ins-reverse
----------------
In lieu of using full-fledged ...
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how can we put the cursor at mouse pointer
I assume you're using Vim in a terminal?
The way the mouse works in a terminal is kinda weird: by default, it's the terminal that handles the mouse and Vim never sees anything. Because it's all text-...
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Vim normal and insert mode cursor not changing in GNU screen
I think I figured it out, although I don't totally understand the fix. This appears to work for mintty, xterm, and rxvt:
" Set up vertical vs block cursor for insert/normal mode
if &term =~ "...
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No_cursor_blinking doesn't work
In gvim you use:
set guicursor+=a:blinkon0
In vim run in the terminal you would change the terminal setting to disable the blinking.
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How can I get the character at the cursor position in a multibyte aware manner?
We discussed it less then 10 days ago on reddit.
One solution is matchstr(getline('.'), '\%'.col('.').'c.') which doesn't mess with any register.
I've put the resulting functions (we can ask for the ...
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How can you indent your current file without losing your cursor position?
You could define a custom command using :help winsaveview():
command! -range=% Equal let b:wv = winsaveview() | silent execute <line1> . ',' . <line2> . 'normal! ==' | call winrestview(b:...
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CursorLine colors
The default syntax script for vim doesn't have lightyellow listed for vimHiCtermColor. You could patch it and submit your change to the vim_dev mailing list.
Or, better, ask them if that is ...
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Multiple cursors at desired location
More Vim ways.
First task:
\section[foobar baz]{foobar baz}
Workflow:
\section[]{}
hh
ifoobar baz<Esc>
$.
Second task:
variable1 = 2
my_variable2 = 12
var3 = 14
Command:
3:norm ...
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Change cursor shape in different terminals
As of November 2017, all the terminals you are using support the same DECSCUSR escape sequences for changing the cursor shape1. So you don't need to test for the different terminals.
As such, the ...
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getpos(".") in visual mode equals getpos("v")
The problem you're having here is that by the time show_position() is running you're already out of visual mode, since the : switched to command-line mode before that function gets called.
If you ...
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Multiple cursors at desired location
Your given use-cases to me sound like to want to know the . key command (repeat last Editing command)
Go to first place, press i, insert your text, <ESC>
move to location 2, press . (Dot) ==> ...
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Move cursor to new line character
If you simply want the cursor to be able to go one past the end of the line for the purpose of starting visual mode, you want the setting set virtualedit=onemore (see :help 've). However, this does ...
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Reclaim cursor shape in operator pending mode of neovim while using vim-surround
If vim-surround were implemented as 's' and 'S' (pseudo-)text-objects instead of operators ds, dS, cs, cS etc, this wouldn't be an issue. I don't know if there's some technical reason for this design ...
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Regex pattern matching cursor-position
You can use the atom /\&. This is like forcing two different regular atoms to match at the same position.
Now it becomes a bit complicated, since the cursor position can be anywhere inside the &...
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changing cursor to block in insert mode on Neovim
enter this command in vim to use block cursor in insert mode:
:set guicursor=i:block
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How can you indent your current file without losing your cursor position?
Expanding on Karl Yngve Lervåg's answer:
maHmbgg=G`bzt`a
Explanation:
ma - Set mark 'a'
H - Jump to the top of the window
mb - Set mark 'b'
gg=G - Indent from the first line to the last
`b ...
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How to scroll without forcing the cursor on screen (by letting the cursor off screen)?
I am used from other editors to use the cursor as a visual bookmark, so that after scrolling by letting the cursor off screen I can come back to its place later.
If you're just scrolling through the ...
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How do I make Vim always display several lines after EOF?
In your config you can add zz to j and k. It has the major side effect of centering your cursor. I don't mind and much prefer it to craning my neck. I tried scrolloff and CTRL-E is just uncomfortable ...
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How to disable moving the cursor with the mouse
From Vim Tips Wiki:
When you are using another application and select go back to Vim by
clicking inside Vim's text area, it not only switches application
focus to Vim, but it also moves the ...
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gvim Linux - GUI scroll without cursor shift
Vim doesn't remember where you've been in a file unless you made a change there (see :help changelist) or jumped there (see help jumplist). Also, Vim's cursor is always somewhere in a window, that is, ...
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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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Neovim does not restore terminal cursor on exit
You can and add this to your init.vim:
augroup RestoreCursorShapeOnExit
autocmd!
autocmd VimLeave * set guicursor=a:hor20
augroup END
See :h guicursor for details.
The reason it isn't done ...
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How to change vim cursor shape in text console?
Found a related discussion.
cnorm on my machine is
\E[?25h\E[?0c
The tail \E[?0c will always reset cursor shape.
I thought I can use t_SI and t_EI if I remove it from cnorm (it's termcap code is ...
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How do I change vim cursor color
You can only change GUI vim cursor color in vim:
augroup tune_colors | au!
au ColorScheme * hi Cursor guibg=red guifg=white
augroup END
If you use terminal vim, change cursor colors in terminal ...
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How to move cursor to previous line automatically?
The option is called :h 'whichwrap' (or ww for short). For example,
set ww+=<,>,[,]
However, "right arrow" only goes onto the next line if you don't have set virtualedit=all (that you ...
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How to restore cursor position after search and replace in autocmd
You could achieve '' on an autocmd using the following:
:call setpos('.', getpos("''"))
Check :help function-list for built-in functionality on VimL.
Edit
okay, how to combine it with search and ...
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cursor behavior when exiting <insert> mode
Thanks to the comment by @muru I was able to figure this out. I turns out in my .vimrc I had this line to remap jk to <esc>
inoremap jk <esc>
but there was a space inserted at the end ...
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