Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor.
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How to adjust the command prompt window size in Vim?
Recently I've run into this problem: the bottom buffer that normally used only for displaying command prompt has become larger than normal. It only happens when I'm using a combination of quickfix ...
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Does anyone know a good tiling window manager that uses vim bindings?
Like it says in the question, I'm looking for a window manager that uses Vim bindings, I've tried StumpWM but since it's based around EMACS bindings I find its learning curve to be a bit steep...
Any ...
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Why arrow keys are not recommended in Vim
"Never use arrow keys in Vim!"
I heard this from a random speaker, but didn't have the chance to ask him why. Also, if you don't use the arrow keys, how can you move the cursor in the Insert ...
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How can I prevent Supertab to try completion even if I just want to enter a tab?
Even when I have an empty buffer in vim, supertab tries to do a completion at the begining. How can I configure supertab to only try tab-completion if there's a character?
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Setting vim options only for files in a certain directory tree?
There is a programming project I work on where everyone else uses a tabsize of 4, so I find it most straightforward to set tabstop=4 in my ~/.vimrc. However, I'd rather not have this affect every file ...
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Vi only show 16 lines, how to show full screen?
My vim only show 16 lines, using terminator, how can i make it back to full screen?
It is very annoying. Don't know what settings has to change.
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Vim SuperTab on Windows not expanding
I have supertab vim plugin installed. However when I type something in insert mode and press tab I'm getting: =SuperTab('n') with a new line. I'm using windows and the behavior is the same in command ...
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Getting rid of characters when doing gf in vim
I am using vim for coding. When I have something like the following:
SomeModule->actualMethod() if I take the cursor to SomeModule and I do a gf I get a complaint that SomeModule- does not exist in ...
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SQL Completion Tutorial on vim
I'm attempting(!) to start the sql completion tutorial on vim:
I've created the empty file tutorial.sql
I enter insert mode ok (press i).
Then I need to hit <C-C>s which I assume is ...
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1answer
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NERDTreeToggle opens in Windows/system32
I've added the following useful settign to _vimrc:
map <F2> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>
If I open gvim and then press F2 NERDTree will open but in the directory Windows/system32 which takes a ...
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Open file as administrator using NERDTree
If I ever need to play around with any read-only files in C:\Program Files\ then currently I open gvim in administrator mode and then make the changes and then leave (quickly).
Is it possible to not ...
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Vim-like window manager [closed]
In my daily work I use a lot vim as my editor and the tiling window manager awesome. In my opinion both are great tools. What I don't like about awesome (and multiple other tiling window managers) are ...
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How to exit VIM and get back to 'normal' terminal?
I did find this answer here:
Vim Stuck In Insert Mode
However none of the commands listed worked for me. Exit, cntrl + [, cntrl + q
I'm a totally terminal newb, trying to learn how to setup git ...
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Is there a way to filter out filenames from vim's “oldfiles”, perhaps using a pattern?
I use vim's :browse oldfiles a lot to edit files I've recently worked with. However, there are some files, such as git's auto-generated COMMIT_EDITMSG, which clutter that list and which I never need ...
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how to change the font in text mode VIM (not gvim with GUI)
I'd like to change the default font in VIM to Adobe Source Code Pro on a CentOS server (without desktop GUI). I've installed the OTF fonts in the package. How can I have the new monospace font set ...
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1answer
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python related plugins give errors in vim
So here's an example of a vim plugin having python issues:
Error detected while processing function UltiSnipsEdit:
line 6:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ...
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Vimscript: Unable to run python script that imports win32 library
I am writing a vim plugin in python that fails when importing the python library "win32com.client". The following reproduces it:
myplugin.vim:
pyfile [path to python file]
python file:
import ...
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Check if Vim has more than one window open
I'd like to overload my tmux binding which cycles through panes to also cycle through Vim windows if the current pane happens to be running Vim.
I can detect the presence of Vim by checking the pane ...
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How to switch to an existing vim instance from inside of screen when opening a file twice
When i work on many files with screen and vim, often i try to open a file already open..
I must switch manually between screen windows witch ctrl-space and press ctrl-g until i find the right window.
...
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How to use vi as a full featured programming editor
I have seen people being able to use vi for programming purposes and being able to see e.g. the methods a file contains, jump from a method invocation to its definition etc. I.e. being able to use it ...
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Vim is putting two tabs whenever I punch in tab
I have the following settings to have two-space sized tab stops:
:set tabstop=2
:set noexpandtab
:set shiftwidth=2
However, every time I hit Tab, two 2-space-width tabs go in. I just want a ...
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Is vim better installed in C:\Program files\
I've installed gVim and the install has gone into here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim
Would there have been advantages to installing it in the following location?:
C:\Users\myName\Vim
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Extending Vim Mappings to Run N Times
I want to be able to type something like 'Ncom' in normal mode that will comment out the current and then next N-1 lines. A key-mapping that I made to do so is,
:nmap com ^i#<ESC>j. This does ...
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1answer
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What does shiftwidth do in VIM editor
I read this about shiftwidth option on Google: To change the number of space characters inserted for indentation, use the 'shiftwidth' option.
Ok Ok, but what's that more exactly? How can I try this ...
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How do I keep vim from writing anything to the hard drive?
I would like to temporarily store and manipulate sensitive data in vim. I know it keeps cut and copy registers and swap files on the hard drive, though. If you think about this for a moment, you'll ...
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Vim inserting characters before a comma on multiple lines
Say I have the following
DRAFT,
SAVED,
ARCHIVED,
DELETED;
And I want the following:
DRAFT("draft"),
SAVED("saved"),
ARCHIVED("archived"),
DELETED("deleted");
How can I do this with vim? I'm ...
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Hex-editor with regex [closed]
I'm looking for a hex-editor with regex or other options where I can search and replace bytes by a certain set of rules, like increment a selection by x.
I know vim may able to do it, but I don't ...
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Vim joining lines during wraping
I am using formatoptions to format my files. But if I have a new line character in my tex file, Vim joins the lines, removing this character. How to define in Vim the hard wraping without joining ...
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1answer
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Any equivalent command to let emacs change the buffer layout like Vim?
In Vim, there are a bunch of shortcuts for window switch. For example, when there are 2 windows in one tab, split vertically, I can use CTRL-W J/CTRL-W K to make the 2 windows arranged horizontally.
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1answer
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Edit Current Command in Zsh Vi Mode
So I know that you can set vi mode in bash with
set -o vi
I also know that you can set vi mode in zsh with
bindkey -v
The vi mode in bash has a great feature that allows you to edit the command ...
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VIM Editor: File Enconding and Line Endings
When saving files, these are my default settings in TextMate (Mac OS X):
File Encoding: UTF8 (recommended)
Line Endings: LF (recommended)
How can I set VIM to save files with the same file encoding ...
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1answer
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Curly underline for SpellBad
I am sort of new to vim, and I have a simple question:
I'm using vim for editing .tex documents and I am using spell checker (spell). The problem is that when cursorline is enabled I can't see the ...
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OS X + tmux + vim + solarize + colors
I want to use tmux with console vim having solarized colors on OS X, but the colors are broken inside tmux. There are quite some questions/answers and blog posts about that topic, but solutions ...
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Vim - Adding empty line between lines
How do I insert a blank line between every non-blank lines?
eg. from
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
to
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
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Use zsh completion in vim instead of vim one
I like zsh completion where for example I can write f/o/fTab and get folder/other_folder/file.txt (I'm not sure, it's possible feature of oh-my-zsh, not zsh, but it seems that it doesn't matter)
Also ...
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vim c/c++ ftplugin scripts
I make some additions to the regular runtime in my vim configuration. I add to rtp a directory where there are ftplugin directory, in which I have two files: c.vim and cpp.vim. In these files I ...
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Vim display invisible characters
I am trying to display invisible characters in Vim by the following in my vimrc
set list
set listchars=tab:▒░,trail:▓
But every time it shows me the wrong characters. I have encoding=utf-8. I set ...
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How can I get VIM to copy to system clipboard?
I know this has been asked about a hundred times, and I have looked through almost every answer, I'll get to the point:
"+y
"*y
set clipboard=unnamed
set clipboard=unnamedplus
set clipboard+=unnamed ...
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Annoying newline issue with MacVim
A lot of times when I open a file with MacVim and close it, without doing any saving, SVN always shows that the file was modified. Upon doing svn diff on the file, I get something like this:
...
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Cannot use vi editor
When I try to launch vi using vi or vim, it fails to start.
ozzesh:~ # clear
ozzesh:~ # vi
ozzesh:~ # echo $?
0
ozzesh:~ #
The above vi / vim command can't launch vi.
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Font characters change to gibberish sporadically in vim
I use vim on a Mac in iTerm2 (ie - not MacVIM) and within a tmux session. I have powerline installed, so that's something to keep in mind.
Sometimes, when I'm typing in a particular file, for some ...
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1answer
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My syntax files don't contain @Spell declarations
Apparently spell checking is something that should come by default in vim. However, many (the majority actually - 154 with spell declarations vs 397 without) of the shipped syntax files don't appear ...
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Converting epoch seconds to time inline (preferably vim, but command line would be cool)
I have a file with the format
47 2013-05-01 1367406011 2 30 15
47 2013-05-01 1367406388 1 29 14
43 2013-05-01 1367407469 1 26 12
42 2013-05-01 1367407489 1 25 11
42 2013-05-01 1367407810 1 24 11
39 ...
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how to use vim to manage and send emails
I would like to use vim/gvim as tool for mail managent and I found these 2 interesting pages.
claws
vmail
I understood that these suffer from the following limitations
with vmail you can see and ...
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VIM - Only last line updates with scroll?
Searched around and couldn't find anything but cheat sheets for commands, perhaps my Google-fu is lacking these days.
Any guidance here is much appreciated. I've never seen this before, not sure what ...
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Delay when switching modes
When using vim in gnome-terminal there is a 1s delay after pressing <Esc> to go back to normal mode.
I tried Google and found ttimeoutlen.
I tried setting it to 100 with no effect (delay is ...
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Cannot get Vim to remap CTRL+S to `:w`
I've been trying to get Vim to remap CTRL+S (or ^S) to :w by editing my .vimrc file, however it doesn't work.
This is my current ~/.vimrc configuration:
nmap <c-s> :w<CR>
imap ...
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How to create and run a macro that runs on current visual selection?
I'd like to create a macro so that if I select a piece of text (either by a keyboard or a mouse) and invoke this macro, it adds [b] and [/b] around the text (for example). I'm familiar with recording ...
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Is it possible to restrict modeline in vim to only allow certain settings?
Is there a way to configure vim to enable 'modeline' (and by extension, setting 'modelines' to be non-zero), but restricting the parsing capability of modelines in files?
I want to enable setting of ...
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Vim upside down question marks on whitespace
I've installed spf13-vim on my Vagrant machine with Ubuntu.
The issue is that when I log into Vagrant with vagrant ssh and run Vim then I get all these upside down question marks on either making a ...
