Questions tagged [macvim]
The name given to the OS X port of gVim, the popular editor.
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Neovim Slow Cursor Blinking
I'm trying to switch from Macvim to Neovim, but running into an issue that I can't figure out. I can't get guicursor to fully work. I say fully work because some of it does, e.g. setting ver25 or ...
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Vim NERDTree increases the command line size and doesn't shrink it back
I am using MacVim 9.0 with NERDTree. Some commands in the NERDTree cause the command line to increase in height to display the full command description. (For example, pressing m in the NERDTree window,...
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Mac OS, How to run an executable that takes input in vim?
In competitive programming, we often have some small input we want to test our C++ program on. I already know of being able to remap some keys to make vim compile and run the executable.
However, I am ...
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macOS Console Vim Python3 Install
I know this question has been asked in many various forms, but I have not yet been able to get any of the answers to work. If anybody can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly ...
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Why Won't Deleting vimrc Reset Vim Settings? (Mac)
I reinstalled Macvim using Homebrew, deleted and reinstalled both the vim folder at /usr/shared/vim and vimrc.
When I open text files with vim the settings are the same and any changes I make to the ...
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In macvim, can i keep cmdheight=1, without getting a prompt before opening some files?
In vim, can i keep cmdheight=1, without getting a prompt before opening some files?
My issue is that if I do
~/whatever$ vi app/controllers/application_controller.rb
Then because app/controllers/...
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VIM startup symbols in status
I am trying to move to VIM as my main text editor, already spent a lot of time setting everything and reading about VIM.
Now everything is pretty much ok, except one thing that bothers me all the ...
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How to move from insert to replace/overtype mode in vim
How can you switch from insert mode to replace/overtype mode in vim?
In windows/*nix I just hit the insert key twice (command->insert->replace), but unfortunately i'm stuck on a mac now which doesn't ...
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MacVim - CTRL+C only exits insert mode after arrow key press
Before today, CTRL+C would exit insert mode in MacVim just fine. As of today, when I press CTRL+C, nothing happens until I press an arrow key. Only then does it exit insert mode. If I press some other ...
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Application (MacVim) menubar went dark. How can I fix it?
Recently, MacVim menubar decided to go dark:
It is very hard to read black text on a black menubar. How can I make the menubar grey again?
I am using MacVim 8.1.560 in MacOS X 10.12.6.
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MacVim - how to make mouse based selection be "visual mode"?
Sometimes I select text in vim using the mouse.
I'd like that selection to be treated the same as a visual mode selection, so I can immediately start running commands against it.
Is there a way I ...
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Vim session with splits with remote ssh files
I use to use vim session to keep my opened files. I do it remotely, ssh remote machine and do things there.
Today I tried to open remote files in local Vim, I mean with netrw:
:e scp://user@remoteip/...
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Homebrew “linkapps” command not found. What can replace it so I can use MacVim as default editor for some file types?
My Homebrew version is:
Homebrew 1.7.1-114-g545eb91
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 279277; last commit 2018-08-04)
When I run:
brew linkapps
The response I get is:
Error: Unknown command: ...
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Launch macvim in Mac terminal in current directory
I know that I can open macvim in terminal using open -a macvim. The problem is it opens in the user home directory.
How can I open it so the directory is in the current directory?
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Vim movement delay on lines with 40 or more symbols
I like to visually delimit source code by long comment lines: In C++ I use 80 / characters, in Python I use 80 # characters, etc. Over the years I've noticed that Vim occasionally hiccups (stops ...
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How to use vimium to select text from a page
Background
I'm a religious fanatical devoted believer of vimium. It speeds up my internet usage like nothing else. I'm also (naturally) a heavy user of vim itself.
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How can I actually select ...
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Vim - Detect Caps Lock Status
My question is simple and straightforward! =D
In this thread @OsQu...
Vim - Is Capslock on?
... says that you can use the Automation Hotkey Scripting (AHK) below to detect the Caps Lock (on/off) ...
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Disable confirmation for loading file on file changed (MacVim)
This question specifically regards MacVim (for OS X).
MacVim detects if the file changed on the disk. However, it's asking for confirmation / selection every time:
I want it to use Load File or Load ...
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Setting alias to use Macvim in terminal instead of standard Vim
I want to use MacVim console app instead of a standard vim.
In order to accomplish that I try to set alias:
alias vim="/usr/local/Cellar/macvim/8.0-119_1/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim"
But for some ...
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Plugins configuration file for Vim
I'm quite new to Vim, and, since I'm writing my very own .vimrc file, I was wondering if there is a way to store all the commands relative to a certain plugin configuration in one external file, in ...
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Selecting the "Don't Save" button using the keyboard
In MacVim, when you try to close a window with unsaved changes (by pressing cmdw), a window pops up to confirm, with 3 buttons:
Don't Save
Cancel
Save...
The third one is blue, the others are ...
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Open file in new window from macvim
In MacVim, I can use :e file to open a file in a new buffer or :tabe file to open a file new a new tab. How can I open a file in a new window?
I would be happy with ⌘+N followed by :e file, but that ...
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MacVIM not displaying tab/buffer line in Fullscreen mode on OSX Captain
I used :Fullscreen command to send the MacVIM to full-screen mode. (This is a function in "vim-shell" written by xolox, available on Github through the author.)
Everything worked fine (I started Vim ...
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Installing MacVim issue with 'src/' directory and ./configure command
The MacVim Readme_mac says I need to cd to a directory called 'src/', but it doesn't exist by default. Should I just create it or does it absence raise a flag?
also when I do $ ./configure --help it ...
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How can I unconditionally open any fold present, without errors, when invoking from the command-line?
So, this is similar to ‘execute command with range silently’; but that's in a mapping, and so the solution isn't applicable to what I'm trying to do.
I'm using the Skim PDF-viewer with LaTeX Sync, ...
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MacVim switching tabs & El Capitan split screen
Using El Capitan's split screen feature, I'd like to have MacVim open in the left half and Terminal open in the right half.
This works fine, until I try to switch tabs in MacVim via the keyboard ...
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MacVim doesn't display on El Capitan
I just upgraded to El Capitan installed MacVim 7.3. When I start it there is no display just the menu bar. Is there some magic incantation I need to perform?
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MacVim.app doesnt open any edit windows
i installed macvim with
brew install macvim
brew link macvim
brew linkapps
i am on os x el capitan, but had same problem on yosemite
if i go to /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-80/bin and execute ...
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How can I treat a logical block as a text object in Vim?
Here's a situation I'm in every day:
0 .outer_selector {
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2 .inner_selector {
3 margin: 0;
4 padding: 0;
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6 input { display: none; }
7 }
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9 }
Now I want to cut and paste the ....
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How do I get Dash Doc App to respect indentation on MacVim?
Couldn't do the same as the answer in the question below.
How do I get Dash Doc App to respect indentation?
Has someone run into the same problem with Vim?
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Edit: I can't reuse the question ...
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Replace terminal's vi with windowed vim for root
I'm on Mac OS X, but I guess this is the same for other unixes.
Every time I type vi on the terminal, I want to open the GUI version of Vim (in Mac OS it's called mvim).
For my user, I got it ...
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How to point MacVim to the right perl on OSX 10.10?
When I try to use MacVim from the command line, I get
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/MacVim.app/...
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“Cmd”+“Shift”+“N” works in MacVim but not terminal VIM
I use iTerm2 on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and I installed YADR and that comes with all its configurations and mappings. One of the mappings maps Cmd+Shift+N to NERDTreeToggle. This however works in ...
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Compiling vim with python support - installing powerline
I spent all day yesterday backing up my hard drive, clean installing Mac OSX Yosemite, and now I'm trying to get all my stuff in order like it was before.
I have powerline installed properly (it ...
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Check if vim is compiled with +X11 in .vimrc
I have two copies of vim installed.
One is installed with macvim and necessarily configured with -X11 (to work with Cocoa), while the other is configured to +X11 (used in terminal, to work with a ...
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MacVim / Vim retain content of all buffers (like Sublime Text). Preserve swap?
TL;DR: Can Vim store its swap files, and loads the same set of swap files and buffers on load every time?
I'm on a Mac (OS: Maverick), where a number of application keeps the data in some sort of ...
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mapping jj to escape in macvim works but not in terminal vim
In my vimrc I have:
inoremap jj <ESC>
Using the latest macvim I can hit jj and i'll jump from insert to command mode, but using the same vimrc with just regular vim in iterm2 it just inserts ...
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why is vim calling this script on startup?
I'm trying to use a custom color scheme.
On startup, I can see that vim is loading my scheme, but after that it loads another scheme, overwriting mine.
Here's the output of :scriptnames:
1: /usr/...
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How to adjust statusline height in MacVim?
I just installed powerline for mvim. It works fine except my statusline is a bit too big which makes it look weird:
How can I fix this?
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VIM Crashes/Freezes on specific files Mac OSX Mavericks
I've recently switched over to using VIM and use a friends .vimrc that works well for him
https://github.com/dtothefp/dotfilesv2/blob/master/vim/vimrc.symlink
I first installed vim through Homebrew ...
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Inconsolata font with powerline support and italics
Is there an Inconsolata font package with italics and support for powerline? I have only been able to find:
powerline-fonts - has powerline support but no italics
Inconsolata-LGC - has italics but ...
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Open Macvim within terminal without opening a new window
Every time I try to edit a file, I do mvim file.txt in the terminal then a new MacVim window pops up. But if I do vim file.txt, it will not open a new window. Instead, it will initialise vim within ...
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MacVim always return focus to terminal upon leaving
I'm running Mavericks and I recently started playing around with sshfs to try to boost my productivity by using MacVim (I've been using in-terminal vim for a few years now). I really like MacVim.
I ...
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Vim - How Recognize Spaces as Tabs (set listchars=tab)
I wonder if it is possible to use a configuration for that
command "set listchars=tab:▒░,trail:·" to "see" 4 spaces as tabs
and get the effect of the picture below (using real tabs)...
I use the ...
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Vim conceal feature is applied to active line
I am using MacVim with the vim-latex plugin. There is a conceal feature turned on by default that converts LaTeX symbols to unicode in vim itself so the source is easier to read. I think this is ...
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Keep window size when resizing font in MacVim
When changing the font size in MacVim on OSX (Cmd +,Cmd -), the window is resized as well. Is there a setting that makes MacVim keep its window's size, when the font is resized?
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Opening files with MacVim from command line
From my command line I'm inputting the command
open .lists
This is opening the text file in TextEdit. I'm pretty sure some file extensions will open with MacVim. I'm unsure how to get all text files ...
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Vim - Using Functions to Search (.vimrc)
I'm have a timing problem with a function that I use to search in Vim. I need the search to be executed immediately, not after the function ends.
I'm using "feedkeys" function (eg. feedkeys("/pathern\...
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Can I change a Vim setting persistently using a shortcut?
Can I change a Vim setting persistently using a shortcut?
Hypothetical Example:
nnoremap <script> <F7> :call ChangeConfig()<cr>
function! ChangeConfig()
set virtualedit=all
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vim and macvim are not reading my .vim directory
I have installed vim and macvim using macports, and tried copying over my .vim directory from linux. Neither seems to read anything from that directory: my customizations for folding and indenting ...
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