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What is the Vim8 package feature and how should I use it?
First of all, the relevant documentation can be found with :h packages on the newly compiled Vim8 version and here on Github.
A first important note is about the vocabulary: In Vim8 a package is ...
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How do I install a plugin in Vim/vi?
Vim 8+ / Neovim
Version 8 introduces a new packages mechanism that largely replaces the need for existing plugin managers (pathogen, vim-plug, vundle, etc.) at the time of writing (2017).
From the ...
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How to patch add in Fugitive plugin?
Short Answer
Just use the normal interactive buttons. In (regular) vim, pressing p drops you into the interactive terminal patch, so it's the interface you're used to.
For neovim users: Just enter ...
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How to see if a plugin is active
How can I determine if a filetype plugin (such as vim-latexsuite) has been installed
You could use :scriptnames which list all sourced files.
Another option is to check for the variable indicating ...
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What is the Vim8 package feature and how should I use it?
The answer provided by @statox is very descriptive, but for a new user that can be overwhelming. Instead I want to outline what you need to do in step-by-step pointers.
Create pack/*/start directory ...
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vim hangs when I open a typescript file
tldr; Add set re=2 into .vimrc prevents the issue on mac. I'm not sure why.
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What is the Vim8 package feature and how should I use it?
To expand on the "can it replace plugin managers",
I used to use Vundle, which was fantastic, but now have replaced it with 18 or so lines of bash.
I find it useful to use subfolders in the pack ...
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How to patch add in Fugitive plugin?
Here's another way to do it, all within fugitive. I believe some of this is new with the 3.0 release on Aug 20, 2019. Someone had created a "What's New?" video, which I sadly can't find now. ...
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how to load vim8 optional packages in vimrc?
how to load vim8 optional packages in vimrc?
The way to load vim8 optional packages in your vimrc is to use the :packadd! command, which will add them to your 'runtimepath', which will make the opt ...
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vim hangs when I open a typescript file
From :help 're':
*'regexpengine'* *'re'*
'regexpengine' 're' number (default 0)
global
This selects the default regexp engine. |two-engines|
The possible ...
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How to see if a plugin is active
One way is to do a regex search on runtimepath:
if match(&runtimepath, 'MY-PLUGIN') != -1
" ...
endif
If you're using vim-plug, here's a general purpose method to check:
function! ...
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Plugin help files not found
you have to create the help-tags.
Run :helptags for the dir where you installed the docs.
On unix this would most likely be :helptags ~/.vim/doc.
Or simply recreate them all with :helptags ALL
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Easiest way to insert LaTeX matrix?
Honza's UltiSnips Snippet gentbl<number>x<number>
available in the repository https://github.com/honza/vim-snippets/blob/master/UltiSnips/tex.snippets
Using this snippet which uses the ...
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Auto back-indent word 'else' in if/else statement in Vim
Let's start from the beginning. There are quite a few (local to buffer) options in Vim to work with indenting.
autoindent is the most basic setting; it simply makes a new line to have an equivalent ...
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Drawbacks of using Python to develop new code in a VIM plugin
TL;DR:
Requiring +python/+python3 support for a python based development plugin. That sounds completely reasonable.
About Vim plugins and human behavior
Generally, speaking humans want things to ...
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How do I install a .vimball Plugin?
:UseVimball path instead of :so [name].vba for vim8-packages/dein/vim-plug/minpac
If you use vim8 pack paths or a plugin manager which supports local plugins (e.g. dein or vim-plug), you might want ...
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How to see if a plugin is active
If you use vim-plug, it sets a variable called plugs which lists all your loaded plugins, and some information about them. I solved your question for myself when I needed to check whether I was ...
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How to identify all the loaded ftplugins for the current file?
I don't know of a direct way to get a list of only the things loaded for the current buffer based on filetype, but :scriptnames will list everything that's been loaded, including system/default ...
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Why do plugins check v:version < 700?
v:version specifies your current version of Vim. Version 7.0 has version 700, 7.2 has version 702, etc.
Now, version 7 was a very major release with many enhancements to the previous release 6, that ...
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How to customize colorschemes without editing their source files?
The AfterColors plug-in (GitHub mirror) provides an after-directory auto-loading mechanism for color schemes. This can however be easily achieved in modern Vim by using the ColorScheme autocommand ...
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How to update vim plugins with pathogen package manager?
pathogen manages the run time path of Vim. It is not the same as vim-plug nor vundle.
The differences between the vim plugin managers has many good answers. :-)
How to use Tim Pope's Pathogen ...
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How to see if a plugin is active
Vim plugins don't come with any activation indication, and in a proper setup, this isn't necessary.
You can quickly check whether a plugin is active by querying for its side effects, typically ...
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Call function only when the plugin is loaded
Rather than have my ~/.vimrc load a plugin ahead of when it would normally be loaded, I usually solve this problem in one of two ways.
Call the function in a ~/.vimrc/after/plugin/MyPlugin.vim file.
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Why are inclusion guards used in vim plugins?
It allows the user to disable a specific plugin.
See :h use-cpo-save, and search for NOT LOADING:
NOT LOADING
It's possible that a user doesn't always want to load this plugin. Or the
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How to update vim plugins with pathogen package manager?
Pathogen is not a plugin manager at all. Updating your plugins is your job and the best method depends entirely on how you installed those plugins.
If you want an actual plugin manager, try Neobundle,...
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Gundo plugin requires python 2.4 when version 2.7 is installed
Add this to your .vimrc
if has('python3')
let g:gundo_prefer_python3 = 1
endif
I was getting similar error. The above worked for me (I am using Manjaro Linux, and installed community/python-...
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Can't get deoplete plugin working in Neovim
Vim uses Ctrl-n (next item) and Ctrl-p (previous item), Ctrl-y (accept match) or Ctrl-e (cancel) and so on for completion. See :h ins-completion-menu and :h popupmenu-keys for details.
The following ...
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What is the current 'best practice' for persistent preferences for a plugin?
One way to do it is to have your plugin define a global variable storing the path to that specific "persistent settings/enabled filters" file. This is similar to how various plugins that have to '...
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How to see if a plugin is active
In that particular case, I'd only play with :scriptnames. We can't expect to use a global variable to check whether a ftplugin has been loaded -- LaTeXSuite may have plugins, I don't remember, what is ...
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How an autoload/file.vim is loaded?
autoload plugins are sourced:
either when we source them explicitly (like in :runtime autoload/fakeclip.vim)
or when we call a function that starts in foo#bar#whatever(), it'll source autoload/foo/...
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