Vim stands for Vi IMproved. Vim is a configurable text editor. It is an improved version of the vi editor. From the Vim website: Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. ...
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Vim: Shortcut to move to beginning of next line / end of previous line?
Is there any shortcut in vim to move to the beginning of the next line or the end of the previous line? Is there any way to do it without having to use $ or ^?
Also, is there any way to make it so ...
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Use argdo with search pattern to delete line while suppressing errors and requiring confirmation in Vim
I use gVim 7.3.46 on Win 7.
It is pretty straightforward to use argdo to search args files for a pattern and replace it while suppressing errors and requiring confirmation.
:argdo ...
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vim is slow, even on console without X running
I'm using Arch Linux and I installed vim from the official repos.
It runs OK, but when I have syntax and cursor highlight turned on, it is extremely slow.
I already trying running only the 'core' ...
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Macvim lags while Vim on terminal is buttery smooth
I am running OS X Lion 10.7.3 and Macvim runs significantly slower than vim on the terminal for me. All movement commands in Macvim are much slower. Moving up and down in visual mode is equally as ...
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Change the color for a keyword in Vim for ALL filetypes
I'm using &showbreak=repeat(' ', 5) to add indentation to wordwrapped lines. What I WANT to do is add a bright red >>>> instead.
How would I change all >>>> occurrences ...
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vim: last normal mode command and moves
in vim, with ., I can repeat the last normal mode command, example
dd.
delete two times a line.
But, if I press
5j.
the cursor don't move 10 lines down.
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Vim: Close and return to last tab, repeat
I find myself in this situation very often:
Open gVim with NERDTree from current working directory.
Open a file from NERDTree using <S-T> so it grabs a new tab.
:tabprevious to return to ...
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How to show current mode in status-line in tmux?
In vim: :set showcmd tells me what key I've typed(such as f).
In tmux: after typing Ctrl-b, I stop to think about the next key I need.
Sometimes I forgot I've typed Ctrl-b, so I type it again, it ...
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Find/replace underscored words to camelCase words using regex?
I have a ton of text files that are tagged with underscore-connected words like @some_text, but I would like to convert those to tags in camel case, like @someText. How can I use regex (either in vim ...
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How to close other windows in tmux?
I write some functions in .bashrc to make tmux easy to use:
#!/bin/bash
# .bashrc
# vim tmux
#----- --------------------
tabc() { tmux kill-window; }
tabe() { tmux new-window; }
tabf() ...
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How do I modify a literate haskell script to contain unicode characters?
I would like to modify a .lhs file currently written in plain text. For example, -> would be replaced by → in the .lhs file. I am aware that for display purposes, many text editors can replace these ...
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Passing the an argument to Windows shortcut
I was successful in opening vim via shortcut in Windows.
It is simple as creating a target with
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/vim
Now when I open a file with this shortcut, it seems as though ...
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vim: Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV on multiple files
Fairly regularly (certainly more regularly than not) I run into an issue when editing more than one file in vim (on OSX) - I'll open a set of files with
vim *.txt
Edit a file, save it, close the ...
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vim: remove quickfix highlights
I just learned about :grep in vim which is great for searching in multiple files.
What troubles me is that when I have found the line I'm after, I'd like to remove all quickfix hightlights. And I ...
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Converting between a vim replace and a perl pie replace
So I have a file test.txt, that contains,
home -> range
If I edit the file in vim and run the command %s/^\(.*\)->\(.*\)$/\2 ::= \1 ;/g it converts the file to
range ::= home ;
which is ...
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Get Path Of Existing Directory or File, Paste at Cursor Position
I am using vim to edit config files on newly-built linux servers. On these boxes I have a default vim setup (RHEL 6.2).
While editing these files, I'd like to avoid fat-fingering directory & ...
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Vim plugins not working in OSX 10.7
I had downloaded snipmate from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540... I extracted the zip file and copied it to folder
/usr/share/vim/vim73/
Before this plugin,
i tried to install ...
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looking for an alternative to refile in orgmode for emacs
In emacs/orgmode there is something called refile.
you select text, hit refile and you get a list of your outline headlines, select one and your text goes there.
Can I achieve something like this in ...
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Open a Console Based Editor with limited access
I have a script that will be executed through SSH. My SSH server is configured to always trigger this script, so the user doesnt have access to actual machine.
One of the features of this script is ...
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Shell scripts in windows
I've been using the terminal in Ubuntu and Debian for a while and use shell scripts, commands like find, grep etc.. and the vim editor.
What is the best way to use such commands/software under ...
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how to disable loadview in vimdiff
I'm trying to disable the feature in vim that remembers where I was, when I'm using vimdiff. the reason for this is simple I don't want to miss a change that has scrolled out of view.
I found a lot ...
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Visually select a block and replace every occurrence of block
I'm refactoring some code and I have several occurrences of the same block of code. I want to grab the block (probably in visual mode) and then replace every occurrence of it with a method call that I ...
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Vim Overlength highlighting for certain filetypes only
I'm using the following in my .vimrc to highlight lines that over 80 characters long:
highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
match OverLength /\%81v.\+/
This affects all of my ...
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Delete one whitespace to the left
Consider this code:
foo = (int)someVariable - 42;
bar = someFunction('someArgument') + 42;
By placing the cursor on the leading character of someVariable and someFunction we can experiment with dw, ...
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Changing the highlighted text background color in VIM on Mac OS X
I have a color scheme that I really like for the terminal on my Linux box. I have edited Terminal.app's color scheme on my Mac to be identical to on my Linux box, and for the most part I am happy. I ...
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VIM: How to configure Solarized colorscheme in Konsole
I am trying to configure Solarized for use in VIM in Konsole (KDE terminal). This is the result that I get:
Note that Solarized looks fine in GVIM on the same machine:
I suspect that it is ...
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VIM: Tab as omnicomplete, but not at beginning of line
I have configured Tab as Omnicompetion in VIM 7.3:
inoremap <Tab> <C-n>
This is convenient, but I would really like to have regular tab back at the beginning of a line! Is there any way ...
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How do I use installed Vim in Git Bash instead of the one that came with Git?
I've installed Vim and Git to C:\Program Files (x86)\(vim|git) respectively.
When I run Vim from Git Bash, it runs the internal version of Vim that came with the Git installer. Is there a way to ...
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How do I save the files lists in vim?
I've opened many files in vim,
is there a command to save the full paths of opened files into a separate file so that next time I can resume with vim -p files.txt?
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Can you hide the tmux status bar when starting a program like vim?
Some programs, like vim, look much better without the tmux status bar at the bottom. I have already set up a key that toggles the visibility of the status bar, but it would be even awesomer if the ...
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Vim doesn't load symlinked .vimrc
I've got a symlinked .vimrc:
simont@charmander ~/repositories/config-files [master *]
± $ ls -l ~/.vimrc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 simont admin 6 9 May 17:14 /Users/simont/.vimrc -> .vimrc
However, vim ...
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vim “gq}” command to re-wrap paragraph, and LaTeX
How can I make this command not wrap things like \item?
For example:
\begin{enumerate}
\item this might be a long paragraph that spans multiple lines
\item blah
\end{enumerate}
if I run "gq}" ...
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How to search for and sort all lines found using vim?
I have some c++ includes that I want to sort:
#ifndef t
#define t
#include <b>
#include <a>
#include <c>
#endif
I can shift-v to highlight the #include lines and then do :sort ...
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Read from stdin to new, named, file in vim
I'd like to start vim on a non existing file, named f, with the content c. Both f and c are arbitrary and I'd like to not have to put anything in the vim config to fill new buffers with c.
Basically, ...
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Install vim with clipboard support using Macports in OS X 10.7.3
I know that one can pass ./configure some flags to install vim with clipboard support. I want to do this via Macports.
In apt, there was a way to download a package's source without first installing ...
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Xauthority hosed vim's ability to connect to Xserver
I recently tried to move .Xauthority away from ~/.Xauthority in a futile attempt to clean up my home directory. Or, rather, I set $XAUTHORITY to somewhere else, changed startx to startx -- -auth ...
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Join lines between a certain text pattern in Vim
I have a text file which looks like this:
A.
text
text
text
A.
more text
more text
A.
more text
I want to join all lines between the "markers" A. so that it looks like:
A.texttexttext
A.more ...
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When editing an existing file with VIM: will it replace or change that file?
I've read that most editors will replace the file when you actually want to save changes to that file How to execute a command whenever a file changes?. So how does VIM behave?
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Fully reinstall / remove VIM
I recently ran a script which configures VIM and installs plugins needed for development. I installed it like this:
$ git clone https://github.com/sontek/dotfiles.git
$ cd dotfiles
$ ./install.sh vim
...
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Vim - dynamic list of open buffers in a window
I've investigated a few ways to maintain a list of open buffers in Vim, and some of them are very good, but none of them seem to behave the way I'd like. It's very possible that nothing like what I ...
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Copying/Pasting in VIM without overwriting register
Haven't been able to figure this out...
So I usually like to select a word (say, albatross) and copy it to a register using v i w y, which–as I understand it–copies it into the * register.
Then I ...
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modifying vim paragraph jumping commands to whitespace-containing lines or code blocks
1) With the { and } commands in vim I can jump to the previous or next completely blank line (or beginning or end of file). How do I modify these commands to jump to the previous or next line being ...
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How do I set the default window size in vim?
When I right click on a file and open it in Vim, the default window size is too small. How can I change the settings so that the default window size is bigger?
I'm running Vim 7.3.46 in Windows 7.
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Add arrows in vim
Let's say I have this code :
CommitEvent 4
FooEvent 3
BarEvent 5
NoneEvent 12
And many other lines like this. Using vim, I want to change it to :
CommitEvent => 4,
FooEvent => 3,
BarEvent ...
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urxvt vim transparent colorscheme
I have urxvt running in real transparency mode using xcompmgr. Everything looks great but I would like my vim colorscheme to respect the transparency setting. Is this possible?
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How do I set the cursor to stop when it hits the end of a line in Vim?
(Disclamer: I'm new to Vim.)
I've mistakenly managed to enable cursor movements to travel anywhere on the screen, i.e. beyond end of lines. This makes it very tedious to spot redundant whitespaces, ...
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VIM: Where are these non-default settings store if not in my .vimrc file?
So when I press :set I see a bunch of settings that are not on my ~/.vimrc file. (My guess is they're settings I've set years ago and don't remember).
So I do :version and get a path $VIM/vimrc, ...
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can I make zsh filename completion work like Vim?
I use setopt menu_complete so that I can hit TAB repeatedly to get different filename completions in zsh. However, I would also like to be able to type:
ls ~/*.txt<TAB>
and then use TAB to ...
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Search in Vim's undo history
I have a "weird" usage pattern in vim that I often use - or have to use, depending on how you view it.
What normally happens is this: I enter some text, do some editing, then remove a bit of text ...
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Errors when using vim over ssh -t in Cygwin
I'd like to ssh to a remote server and vim a file.
I tried
ssh -t user@host "vim x"
which gave me errors:
Error detected while processing /home/michael/.vimrc:
line 58:
E538: No mouse support: ...
