Questions tagged [vim]
vim (Vi IMproved) is a text editor supporting different editing modes.
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Close the file in vim without closing the file explorer
I am browsing the files in vim file explorer by entering vim dirname.
Then I am opening the file, saving and closing it by entering :wq.
Now the file explorer window disappears.
How to prevent this ...
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How can I get neovim to load my init.vim file when in sudo mode?
I'm having an issue with neovim on a Raspberry Pi coding with Python.
I have installed it by sudo apt-get install neovim, and it works using just the nvim in commandline.
For some reason I can create ...
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How to get clipboard as input file name to Vim on bash?
I install xclip to access system clipboard, my setting and some operations as below:
➜ ~ cat .zshrc | grep xclip
alias c="xclip -selection c"
alias v="xclip -selection c -o"
➜ ~ which dict | c
➜ ~ ...
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How to edit a 100GB file in Linux?
I have a file that has several times my RAM capacity and I need to edit it, search for some expressions, etc.
I've tried Vim (with LargeFiles plugin and CTRL + C trick), joe, shed all without luck.
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Why updates overwrites Vim that built from source?
I build Vim from source, and install it with checkinstall. Soon after Software&Updates warned there is an update for Vim. But after the installation, Vim path is altered and another build take its ...
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Output in terminal after quitting program
I'm using Kubuntu with i3, and I've recently migrated from Manjaro because things. My terminal emulator is urxvt but, when I use programs such as vim, less or nano in the terminal remains the part of ...
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Nailing down vim regex substitution
I started using Vimwiki to document weekly progress on my projects last year. As the year rolled on, the format of my list of links to weekly wikis changed a bit. At the end of the year I decided to ...
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Vim editor universal config for copy/paste on multiplatform environment does it exists? [closed]
I spend a lot of time to get comfortable working with Vim, and I am there right now, except one thing. Also it look like Vim has advantages in many cases working on embedded programming or kernel ...
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Need to edit a single file in a tar.gz using Python [closed]
Vim provides the ability to edit a single file in a tar.gz without unarchiving. ( i.e. vim some_archive.tar.gz )
How could I script the same type of operation using Python?
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How to make Readline in vi mode to read .vimrc?
When using Readline's vi mode in Bash, I can use command v from normal mode, to open the current command line in Vim for editing. However, in this case, Vim does not read my ~/.vimrc file, so none of ...
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how to setup vim plugin YouCompleteMe for python?
the autocomplete works for class. as shown in he screenshot
but it does not for class.subclass.
also it does not work for : var = class()
so var. will not trigger the autocomplete.
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Neovim key mapping on Linux Mint
I recently started using Linux Mint (19, Cinnamon). I'm editing ~/.config/nvim/init.vim but some settings do not work.
I want to move between windows I split. Here is what I have.
" Work
noremap <...
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Can't get plugin for Vim to work with Vundle. What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to install this plugin here for my Vim on my Centos 7 laptop. The instructions I followed to install the plugin manage Vundle are from the Github Vundle page here and then proceeded to ...
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How can I replace ~60 print entries in 5 different files using vim or sed?
Fabfile (directory) containing Python files:
print "DEBUG fab_helper DRYRUN: True"+var
print "DEBUG fab_helper DRYRUN: True"
#print "DEBUG cfn_stackname: "+cfn_stackname
To:
LOGGER.DEBUG("DEBUG ...
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Viewing man pages in vim
I wrote a function in bash to see manpages in vim
viman () { man "$@" | vim -R +":set ft=man" - ; }
This works fine, the only problem occurs if I pass a manpage to it which doesn't exist. It prints ...
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vim: Execute command for FileGroup
I try to open NERDtree whenever I open a Golang file:
au FileType go exe 'NERDTree'
However, when I open a Go file from another directory it still displays the current directory. I can pass the ...
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How to prevent Vim from translating C-j into C-m when started by the zle widget `edit-command-line`?
I have the following code in my ~/.zshrc:
autoload -Uz edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey '^X^E' edit-command-line
It binds the edit-command-line zle widget to the keysequence C-x C-...
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Question about Vi/Vim buffer
i just started using Vi/Vim editor and while i m checking the list of active buffers for the buffer i m using i get this line:
1 %a + "buffername" line 16
What does %a + ...
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How to use Unicode hex escape in :s/// replacement string in Vim?
I want to use a hexadecimal Unicode escape in the replacement string of a substitution command, i.e., with the example character U+20AC:
:s#something#\x{20AC}#g
The above example doesn't work, ...
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Change vim cursor in Terminator
I am using Terminator in Ubuntu as well as vim.
My question is whether there is a possibility to use an underscore cursor in insert mode and a block cursor in normal mode.
I read on http://vim....
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Should I learn to memorize these keys for Vim for moving - h,l,k,j? [closed]
For VIM in command mode, the keys h,l,k, and j are used to move the cursor but I see no point in memorizing these at the moment because when going into insert mode, I use the arrow keys to move the ...
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Unix Function func_name ### {{{ purpose of #and {
Function func_name ### {{{1
{
Function defined
Return statement
} ### }}}1
I’m not sure on the purpose of these curly brackets and ###
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Why my simple script vim don't work for tab character?
This is my simple script of vim
#!/usr/bin/vim
%norm f^ID
%norm $i,
%!awk '{ for (i=1;i<=NF;i++ ) printf $i " " }'
The first line delete all after the tab(^I)
the second add a "," after every ...
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man pages no longer rendering - lots of “permission denied” errors related to pager / vimpager
For reasons I can't determine, within the last two days the "man" command stopped working on my linux server (Ubuntu 18.04). When attempting to run man <anything> I end up at a blank instance ...
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Grepping lines which have range of number
I have few lines in my text file as below. I want to grep all the lines which have patterns like :100, :101 and :102 up to :199 . How to get those lines instead of searching like this. :100\|:101\|:...
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Unable to copy from VIM to clipboard using "+y command
I am unable to copy strings from vim paste them somewhere else, for example in the terminal, using "+y. I run Ubuntu on my laptop, the vim version is vim-gtk, it has xterm_clipboard and clipboard ...
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Why is vim frozen?
I have two different machines (home and work) running Ubuntu 18.04. Last night vim froze at home. I was in insert mode and typing and went to save (esc :w) and nothing happened. The status bar still ...
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How to prevent `$MANSECT` from being altered when using Vim as a manpager?
Inside the file ~/.zshenv I export this value for the MANSECT environment variable (the value is taken from /etc/manpath.config):
export MANSECT=1:n:l:8:3:2:3posix:3pm:3perl:5:4:9:6:7
This variable ...
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Syntax highlighting in Vim turned on for user, but off for root
I noticed that when I open a file like ~/.bashrc in Vim as root, the syntax highlighting (SH) when editing a bash script as normal user (blue for comments, orange for keywords, red for numbers, etc.) ...
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Delete but not cut a line in Vim
This is not duplicate of delete line in vi, it's asking different question. I'd like to delete a line without cutting it (placing it in clipboard).
I'd like to copy part of line, delete a line and ...
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Change the shell of vim
I change my shell to zsh now.But when I call shell in vim by :! xxx will call the bash.So, how can I call zsh in vim ?
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Terminal colors look wrong when using tmux with termite
The terminal i'm using is termite, and it is very good, but i'm having a problem with vim colorschemes and some colors in the terminal itself too when using tmux. It happens as follows:
As you can ...
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printf and backspace
I thought of playing around a bit with find -fprintf. In case you don't know what -fprintf does, it is the same as -printf but writing to a file you specify its name.
Now, when I run a command like ...
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Save/restore cursor location upon fold close/open
When I open a fold, either one created manually or one created automatically based off syntax, my cursor remains on the top line of the fold. Instead, I'd like it to jump to the position it was at ...
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How to start Vim in insert mode at end of first line when committing Git changes?
What would be the best way to set Vim up to always put the cursor in insert mode at the end of the first line (to account for commit message templates) when running git commit? This would basically do ...
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Vi editor: deleting a portion of a line
Consider the following line of python code:
columns = ["registered","casual","counts", "workingday", "month", "dteday"]
I often need to remove one or more strings from such a list. What is the most ...
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Find the pattern in 1 line and replacing in another line
I have some local soft link paths of files as below.
./tech/finegrain/DUALDFTIO/synopsys/DUALDFTIO.TSMC7N.db
./tech/finegrain/ESD18V/synopsys/ESD18V.TSMC7N.db
I got original paths till directories ...
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How do I stop Ubuntu 18.04 from opening gvim maximized?
When I open gvim, it always starts maximized. However, in my ~/.vim/gvimrc file, I have:
set lines=58
set columns=239
Calling :version:
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$...
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Is there something like cat with history?
It's about a program that works iteratively - gets input from stdin and pass the results over the stdout. There is a set a know text that need to be passed to this program and I've put them in a file ...
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st terminal: Can't distinguish ctermfg=7 and ctermfg=15
I've noticed that with default config.h of st, when I try to invoke vim inside st, there's no difference between white color ctermfg=7 and ctermfg=15.
Here I expect 7 will have less-white than 15 but ...
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st-terminal / vim - Ultisnips: How to enable Ctrl+Enter as Enter in insert mode of vim? [closed]
I get a strange behavior of vim but it can be related to st-terminal that I cannot do an Enter or Ctrl+Enter to break the current line into new line in insert mode, as in the example below:
I have a ...
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Update Vim in RHEL to version 7.4.2009
I am trying to write a Go server on a RHEL 7 system, but the Vim plugin, vim-go, requires version 7.4.2009, where the system only has 7.4.1099. I have tried
yum install vim
and it already has the ...
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How to copy and paste data between remote vps'vim and local vim?
Connect remote vps with ssh.
ssh user@vps_ip
Edit a file in remote vps with vim and write a line
some text
In normal mode ,press yy ,how to paste some text to my local'vim?
And vice versa.
1.GUI ...
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How to search in vim ignoring all whitespace (and making it a function)
How can I search a string in vim and thereby ignoring any whitespace (or particularly line breaks) between any characters?
And probably thereby making a function that can search ignoring all ...
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substitutions in vi editor
I have file called foo.txt. This file contains values:
abc.tar.gz
abc.1.1.tar.gz
bca-1.2.tar.gz
I would like to get an output like this
abc abc.tar.gz
abc.1.1 abc.1.1.tar.gz
bca-1.2 bca-1.2.tar.gz
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Is it possible to have two config files of vim? [duplicate]
I would like to use vim in two scenarios:
To write a code.
To write prose.
Customizing the vim's config file (i.e. .vimrc) is hard work. When I edit (.vimrc) for prose, some specs of what I can ...
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How to close brackets in vim
What is the line to add to my ~/.vimrc to do the following ?:
1) If I open a { on line X, it automatically creates a } on line X+2 with correct indentation:
1 something foo(bar){
2
3 }
2) Cursor ...
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.swp file size increasing automatically, why? [duplicate]
I want to ask reasons for swp file for instance generated by vim increasing its size automatically.
What could possibly be the reasons / factors of size being increased?
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Why doesn't root alias vi to vim if it's standard for other users?
On centos (and I believe many other distros) vi is aliased to vim for all users by default. However, for whatever reason vi is not aliased to vim for the root user, something that always annoys me ...
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vim running in tmux permanently freezes when I accidentally type C-x s [duplicate]
I use emacs a lot, and type C-x s to save there. When I am in vim running inside tmux on a remote machine, if I accidentally type C-x s, the vim instance completely freezes up, and the only way out is ...
