Questions tagged [plugin-system]
For questions about Vim's plugin system. NOT for questions about a specific plugin (use the appropriate plugin-* tag) or questions that may require a plugin.
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When to use "set exrc" and local '.vimrc' in Vim, and how to manage plugins with multiple 'vimrc' files for large projects?
I'm using Vim for a project that has a lot of pages per chapter, and Vim is a little bit slow. I want to create a local '.vimrc' file for this project with only the plugins I need, and I'm trying to ...
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How to include/configure lua_ls on lspconfig?
I am trying to include lua_ls on my lspconfig but I am getting this error
[lspconfig] Cannot access configuration for lua_ls. Ensure this server is listed in `server_configurations.md` or added as a ...
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How to set the ALE configuration `g:ale_exclude_highlights`?
I use ALE to check coding style, but I want to ignore the warning type:line too long, like this picture:
And I find the related setting g:ale_exclude_highlights, this is its explanation in :help ale :...
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Does `.rc` do anything in `after/plugin/foo.rc.vim`?
I see some people add a .rc. extention to files in after/plugin, is there any difference between:
after/plugin/foo.vim
after/plugin/foo.rc.vim
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Or:
after/plugin/bar.lua
after/plugin/bar.rc.lua
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Why does the help suggest to end the lhs of a plug mapping with a semicolon?
In :help using-<Plug> a suggestion is given as to how to name the left hand side of a <Plug> mapping:
To make it very unlikely that other plugins use the same sequence of characters, use ...
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How can I check whether the user has defined a highlight group before Vim 8.2.3917
With this question I've learned of the existence of hlget and hlID, which I use in a plugin of mine like this:
if empty(hlget('SoftWrapHighlightGroup'))
" do stuff
endif
However, those ...
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How do I let the user of my plugin customize a custom highlight group I define?
In this plugin for (soft-)wrapping only the current line, I have defined a highlight group, au ColorScheme * hi SoftWrapHighlightGroup ctermbg=NONE ctermfg=NONE, which I use here as an argument to a ...
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Remove all leader mappings before creating my own
The question pretty much sums it up: Is there a way to clear all of the <leader> mappings set by plugin authors before proceeding to set my own custom mappings?
The only way I've seen to do this ...
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How to install LunarVim on Windows?
I am installing LunarVim on Windows using the official docs available at: https://www.lunarvim.org/docs/installation
I run:
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/master/...
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Aligning variables and comments in vim
I've looked for this since a long time but I can't seem to find anything relating to this. It could be because of my poor searching skills.
Whenever the code starts getting long, its obvious that we ...
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How can I install fzf in vim without using a plugin manager? [duplicate]
I have fzf installed in manjaro (/usr/bin/fzf, /usr/share/fzf), but I can't seems to figure out how to install fzf for vim. I'm having trouble following these instructions: https://github.com/junegunn/...
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How does Vim execute a plugin?
What is the plugin system ?
I could not find answers how the plugins are actually loaded/executed in Vim. I know that Vim looks for them in specific locations. I also found this question about what an ...
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Issue when moving Vim9script plugin's functions to autoload
I've read :help write-plugin to understand a bit more about how to write a plugin in Vim9script, but there aspects of that that puzzle me.
Here's a very simplified, working version of the example ...
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Plug-in to create comment layer
Is there any plug-in where you can write text without being in insert mode but it’s not being written to the actual file? If you enter insert mode, all that comment text disappears. It should be in a ...
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How portable is my $HOME/.vim directory?
I'm at home on a few unixy systems, FreeBSD/amd64, Linux/amd64 and Solaris/Sparc. I would like my ~/.vim directory as portable as possible, ideally in such a way I can keep them identical (say, rsync ...
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If I change the name of my plugin, will it cause issues for existing users?
I've recently released
vim-surround-funk,
which was inspired by tpope's
vim-surround. Originally, I was
calling it surround-funk.vim, but I changed the name to be more consistent with
vim-surround's ...
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Prevent plugins from loading if python not found
I'm working on a server that has various different python installations set up. At any one time, only one will be accessable and working, depending on what I am working on. Some are python2, some ...
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Where are neovim's cached, file-specific settings?
Vim has a ~/.vim/view/ directory for storing file-specific settings, such as saved cursor position and any command manually ran while viewing a file. Sometime, when I would update and source my vimrc, ...
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Vimscript - Loading function(s) from another .vim file
I'm forking an old vim plugin (effectively dead since 2018) that needed some love. Once I got to the .vim file, I noticed that the functions were all defined in there, which made the file unreasonably ...
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Vim Inside Docker Container Doesn't Recognise Plugins via Vim 8's Own Plugin System
I'm trying to move my development environment into a Docker container to better manage my dependencies. Hence, I need Vim inside that container as well:
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git &&...
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bufexplorer.vim plugin doesn't load
I installed ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso on VirtualBox 6.1.28. It is my first foray into virtual machines and Linux.
I installed Vim 8.1 according to this page. The :scriptnames command shows ...
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project-based config: how to load plugins/colors from custom subdir of $PWD when doing `vim -u local/vimrc ...`?
The Need, the Goal...
By "project-based config" I mean a project contained in a git repo that contains all the vim configuration -- vimrc and plugins and colorschemes -- right there in the ...
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Should the filetypedetect augroup be used in plugins?
I'm writing my first Vim/Neovim plugin, which improves support for files managed by yadm. Pretty straightforward.
However, while reading other plugins for inspiration, I have noticed that plugin ...
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cryptic error since Big Sur upgrade, :PlugInstall doesn't work, and none of my plugins work
Error:
Error detected while processing BufWinEnter Autocommands for "*"..function <SNR>3_LocalVimRC[322]..BufWinEnter Autocommands for "*"..function <SNR>3_LocalVimRC:
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Creating vimrc kills my plugin
I have the following ~/.vim/filetype.vim:
augroup filetypedetect
au BufRead,BufNewFile *?Script.sml let maplocalleader = "h" | source /home/gergely/HOL/tools/vim/hol.vim
" recognise ...
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Open buffer without loading ftplugins
I have huge file and quite slow plugin (loaded by vim-plug) for corresponding filetype. I want following:
Plugin is loaded by default
Option to fast open this file without loading plugin. Something ...
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Measurement/ tracking the time for editing a file (overall and statistics)
I use vim for coding and also for writing scientific articles and book chapters.
It would be very interesting to know the time I spent on a file. For example how many hours or minutes the buffer was ...
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Global plugins source only once? [closed]
So here is a little experiment: with a clean config (i.e., no previous ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/), do:
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin/
$ vim ~/.vim/plugin/foo.vim
And in that file, enter the following, save &...
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Highlight groups stop working after sourcing vimrc
I'm working on a todo plugin for Neovim, using the remote plugin API.
I set highlight groups and matching patterns in my script, and then register it with call remote#host#RegisterPlugin. When Neovim ...
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Bset language to write a vim plugin? [closed]
Currently we can use many different languages to write a (neo)vim plugin. I heard that the vim language is actually pretty slow which was surprising me. I don't have the links of the websites anymore ...
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Vim-Plug uses wrong directory for plugins
I decided to switch from vim to neovim on a new system. I downloaded nvim, copied my .vimrc to ~/.config/nvim/init.vim and installed vim-plug to ~/.config/nvim/autoload/.
At the start of my init.vim I ...
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How does one install a VIM plugin without a plugin manager?
I am new to vim, I watched this video and wish to give it a good try for a month to see how I like it.
I want to add the NERDTree plugin to my vim, I'm actually using NeoVIM:
NVIM v0.4.4
Build type: ...
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cannot save raw plug.vim file [closed]
MacOS, I am trying to save plug.vim file by:
navigate to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
Using save file as option to save plug.vim to this location /usr/share/vim/...
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modules installed again and again
Here is a part of my ftplugin/fortran_state.vim
" Check python modules and install{{{1
if !executable('fprettify') || !executable('fortls') || !executable('unidecode')
:let choice =confirm(&...
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Adding Additional Syntax Highlight to nvim; cannot get .config/nvim/after/syntax to load .vim file
I'm trying to add additional syntax highlighting to a plugin I'm using for syntax highlighting. I've tried adding the additional syntax file fstrings.vim to the ~/.config/nvim/after/syntax folder but ...
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Can vim-plug write plugin settings directly to .vimrc?
I am new in using vim-plug. It works fine installing and updating all the plugins configured in .vimrc. But some plugins require some additional settings inside .vimrc to work correctly.
Is there a ...
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Load plugins in vim started with --noplugin
I have my $EDITOR set to vim --noplugin -n -i NONE +star, which is what I usually want when committing with git etc.
However, sometimes I decide I need those plugins (the builtin ~/.vim/pack kind, ...
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annoying red blocks in neovim
im using Neovim from my WSL terminal. I've been exploring the multiple plugins of this amazing open source project and this made me change my init.vim, a lot. Now i've messed it up and i don know how ...
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In Windows, plugins are not loading when gVim is started from a file
My gVim works perfectly when I open Vim\vim82\gvim.exe. However, when I right click a file and select open with > gVim the plugins do not load, while other settings in my _vimrc are applied like ...
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Override a plugin to restore movement key?
I'm using the pencil plugin which remaps the jk movement buttons to go up/down by row (text is soft wrapped) rather than line, which is usually helpful. But at times I want to have the normal behavior ...
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Manually disable scripts(/plugins) during a session?
Sorry if this is a noob question(I'm new to configuring vim) but I was wondering if it is possible to disable startup scripts manually during a Vim session. I am aware of the :scriptnames command ...
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How do plugins work when providing several custom keys in a plugin-specific window?
I'm referring to plugins like gundo and nerdtree, which offer a whole lot of key bindings only when the cursor is their window.
Therefore, I was wandering if there's a common or preferred way to ...
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How do I set floatterm plugin in Neovim such that F5 compile javascript and how do I do it for other languages?
I plugged float-term plugin , that open terminal window in neovim.
when I compile javascript with node in float term I did like :FloatermNew node % then it compiles fine and show me the output in ...
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Is there a way to disable custom mappings while plugin functions are being executed in vim?
In my vimrc file, I use the following few lines to swap backtick and single-quote for convenience when I'm using marks:
for first in ['', 'g', '[', ']']
for mode in ['n', 'x', 'o']
exe ...
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Adding python directory
After following some advice my vimrc contains:
set rnu
set nu
set autoindent
set pythonthreedll=C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim82\autoload\python37.dll
set pythonthreehome=C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\...
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vim-fetch install
I downloaded vim-fetch, but the install instructions are not clear to me:
Download and source the most current vimball from the releases list, then run :helptags {dir} on your runtimepath/doc ...
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What does mean pi_ prefix?
I've found that some plugins have the prefix "pi_", for example:
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/doc/pi_spec.txt
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/doc/pi_tar.txt
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/doc/pi_msgpack.txt
/...
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Removed Plugin still has active keybindings from view/ files
I installed the plugin vimtex.
Then I installed the plugin tex-vim (aka Latex suite).
The compilation keybinding (<Leader>ll) from vimtex stopped working, since tex-vim takes over it.
So I ...
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Vim plugin installation saying that I have to check my access rights
I'm using a plugin manager Vim Plug and I'm trying to install YouCompleteMe but I keep on getting this error and I don't know what to do with this. I use VIm8
x YouCompleteMe:
Cloning into '/home/...
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How to autoload multiple rc-style files in Vim 8+
I want to split up my .vimrc into multiple files by language or toolchain, use case, etc.
In fact, my end goal is to be able to provide instructions to students in the format of "If you want the ...
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