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How do I configure the Vim airline plugin to look like its own project screenshot?

One has to realize that the feature implemented by airline are inspired by the powerline plugin. Furthermore, I was relying on the docs too much, not realizing that there is well-written airline help ...
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How to install YouCompleteMe with Clang completer offline?

I did the following to install (Although I could copy the whole ~/.vim directory to the new place instead of steps 3-6): Install vim 7.4: brew install vim Note: If you are using mac operating ...
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How to install fzf.vim with Vundle?

You've installed the fzf.vim wrapper plugin, but you haven't installed the base fzf plugin, which provides the underlying functionality, including the autoload functions that the error messages are ...
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Cannot remove a plugin with Vundle

In your _vimrc delete the Plugin 'blabla' line you want to uninstall. Execute :PluginClean in vim. By the way, make sure PluginClean do the right thing you should open a new vim window to execute :...
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Vundle/vim can't see changes in .vimrc

Vim parses your .vimrc once when it is started. Whenever you change something in it (in your case add a new plugin), vim needs to be told manually that something changed so that the .vimrc gets parsed ...
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vundle "filetype plugin indent on" messes with tabwidth

The indentation problem comes from the ftplugin, which loads a .vim file from /usr/share/vim/vim-version-/ftplugin/-filetype-.vim that overrides whatever you have in your .vimrc file. you can find out ...
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Order in runtimepath of Vim packages or similar plug-in managers

As I don't know where to find the "written" rules, I digged into the source code instead. Also note that there are both Vim and Neovim, but it looks that they still share almost the same code in this ...
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Common vimrc config for unix and windows

As it turned out there are common practice to wrap platform specific options in statements which checks the system and set properties accrodingly to this. For some could be convenient to separate such ...
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How do you add a local plugin in Vundle on Windows?

From the Vundle README and from :h vundle-faq too: " git repos on your local machine (i.e. when working on your own plugin) Plugin 'file:///home/gmarik/path/to/plugin' Add these lines to your vimrc ...
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How do you add a local plugin in Vundle on Windows?

If you are not using git to manage the plugin you are developing, you can use the pinned option. I myself use this option for a plugin which I could only obtain as a zip archive Plugin 'vim-specky', { ...
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Stopping :PluginInstall safely

Vundle calls system() to run git. The command will be executed in "cooked" mode, so that a CTRL-C will interrupt the command (on Unix at least). If you cancel Vundle, Vim will interrupt git. So ...
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What is wrong with my DoxygenToolkit.vim?

The problem seems to lie in ascenator/l9 plugin. Open it at the lines incriminated and add a ! on all command definitions. The best is to contact its author to have him fix the plugin. The fact you'...
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Vundle doesn't load the theme

Please add the following to your .vimrc syntax on colorscheme dracula
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Error detected during LaTeX-Suite-aka-Vim-LaTeX plugin update with Vundle

When you read the error message you can see that the problem comes from ~/.vim/bundle/LaTeX-Suite-aka-Vim-LaTeX/plugin/remoteOpen.vim on line 33. This line is the following: com -nargs=1 RemoteOpen :...
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Vundle not instaling Plugins / Ignoring

In your .vimrc you're calling vundle#begin() twice and after the second one you're only loading the Vundle plugin. That's probably why it's ignoring the other plugins you have outside that block. You'...
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Common vimrc config for unix and windows

If you are already using symlinks to set up your Vim configuration, and if — as I infer from your comments — the only operating system dependent part of your ...
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Why can't YCM be loaded automatically

It seems to me that the issue you're having is that your plug-in manager is correctly loading the YouCompleteMe plug-in, however it's not working right after being installed by the plug-in manager ...
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Can using Vim-plug and Vundle together cause any issues in downloaded plugins?

In theory you could give the same path to both plugins managers so that they install the plugins in the same directory: vim-plug call plug#begin('/path/to/your/plugins') vundle call vundle#begin('/...
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Should I reinstall the YCM (YouCompleteMe) plug-in after :PluginUpdate?

Yes, you should run install.py (plus options) again. It pulls several other repos and compiles things. It may not be necessary, depending on the nature of the changes. YCM's own doc says: Remember: ...
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Vundle: how change plugin location from ~/.vim to ~/vimfiles in Windows?

If you open vundle readme, the example configuration has that info: set nocompatible " be iMproved, required filetype off " required " set the runtime ...
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Syntax highlighting for fish script not working

Your Vundle configuration looks incorrect. You should call vundle#begin() at the start, before the Bundle commands. And you should call vundle#end() at the end of that section, before you re-enable ...
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Vundle keeps installing plugins to C:\Users\<user name> despite being told not to in .vimrc

There are many mistakes in your current configuration. I can't really tell why you're seeing the behavior you're currently seeing or why things are apparently working that weren't supposed to... ...
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Powerline font not working with airline in (g)vim on Windows 10

I found a workaround. Manually copying the entire vim-airline tree under the $HOME/vimfiles/pack/plugins/start/ did the trick, as the vim-airline plugin was then able to be loaded at startup. For some ...
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Cannot remove a plugin with Vundle

I dont know if this would help. So far it helped me. First I went to .vim/bundle/Vundle.vim Then I just do "git pull origin master" to pull latest code from the repo. If there is a merge conflict, ...
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can't install some plugins with vundle

Try to change your Plugin 'gmarik/Vundle.vim' to Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim' and reinstall VundleVim from: git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim 'gmarik/...
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Setting up an opt-in system-wide vim config

If you want to make it opt-in, do not use a config file that is searched for by Vim. The user should create a .vimrc containing a single line: source /path_to_your_custom.vim
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How to use vundle for vim installed from AUR

Well, so after some investigation I finally located a vundle file. It start from a lower-cased letter and that's why I did not find it at the first place. It's located in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/...
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How do you add a local plugin in Vundle on Windows?

I just made this mistake! :-) # BAD Plugin 'file:///Users/jamesjones/src/github/burnttoast256/colors' # GOOD Plugin 'file:///Users/jamesjones/src/github/burnttoast256' You want to point to the root ...
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How do you add a local plugin in Vundle on Windows?

Below left is downloaded zip format of a plugin, right is created by 'get clone https://plugin/path' command in Git Bash. Left is equivalent to the plugin you wrote locally. Although the plugin itself ...
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