Questions tagged [vim]
vim (Vi IMproved) is a text editor supporting different editing modes.
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High lighting a word in vim/bash
While I was working on the terminal (mac os)
I pressed wrong combo then the 'def' word highlightend. I found it is very useful.
How to turn on and turn off highlight on a word? (shortcut key, no ...
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setting `xterm-keys` in `tmux` affects Shift-Enter in `vim`
I enabled xterm-keys in tmux in order to have normal xterm key bindings like whole-word movement using the Ctrl-arrow keys.
However, by enabling xterm-keys it causes Shift-Enter to have undesired ...
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Vimscript infinite loop
I'm trying to combine fzf-bibtex with UltiSnips so that I can search my bibliography file and insert a BibTeX key automatically. I use the following function from fzf-bibtex (which calls the binaries ...
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hidden files and directories warnings
I received these rkhunter results; what are these files, and are they dangerous?
[23:17:48] Checking for hidden files and directories [ Warning ]
[23:17:48] Warning: Hidden file found: /etc/....
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Terminal(kitty) colors altering vim color scheme
I'm using the base16 color schemes for both my terminal(kitty) and vim. However changing the color scheme of kitty results in the color scheme of vim changing into something similar.
The relevant(I'...
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In vim in binary mode what is a ^K character?
When I open a file with vim -b it displays ^K sometimes in the text, which cannot be removed by dos2unix. It prevents dos2unix from processing the file:dos2unix: Binary symbol 0x0B found at line 628
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Binary executable file with write permission get READONLY from vim
First I know that use vim to write a binary executable program is not recommended. So, I don't want to talk about its rationality here.
I have a binary program, with permission 755(owner is root), so ...
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How to do vi edit on bash Linux? [closed]
Almost 5 years ago, used to do something like VIEDIT (forgot exact word I used to use).
Usecase - when I want paste bunch of lines of program or strings I do something like viedit (again I forgot the ...
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Is there an yum repository that contains vim with python 3 support?
I am using CentOS 7 and trying to install vim 8 without having to build it from source.
Using ubuntu, the latest vim installed using apt comes with python 3 support. Is there such a repository for ...
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Is it possible in VIM to delimit an external (bash) command?
Given the following
I want to write a file
Change to the directory of the file
Execute a bash command
change to the previous directory
I made the following command
command Asc execute ":w | :cd %:p:...
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vim colorscheme completely wrong inside screen or tmux sessions
I've been trying for 3 days now to get my colorscheme to display properly inside of a screen session versus at the terminal prompt outside of screen or tmux session. I've read all the links and tried ...
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Vim statusline shows ^[[2;2R^[[>41;330;0c^[]10;rgb:e5e5/e5e5/e5e5^G^[]11;rgb:0000/0000/0000^G after mapping Capslock to Esc
I added
au VimEnter * silent! !xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' -e 'keycode 0x42 = Escape'
au VimLeave * silent! !xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' -e 'keycode 0x42 = Caps_Lock'
to my .vimrc to map Capslock to Escape. ...
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shell expansions while in vim
Being in vim.tiny in command mode and executing some shell command with :!, is there a way that I can benefit from the shell expansions, namely from the filename generation?
When I simply enter key, ...
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GVIM : Shortcut for finding end for particular begin in SystemVerilog language
Need a shortcut for finding the end for a particular begin in SystemVerilog syntax.
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How to use vim command-mode indention in ex colon-mode?
I am trying to script some file changes using ex per this answer.
The issue that I'm running into is that ex seems to assume that every command is preceded by a colon, so while I can do something ...
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Copy to tmux copy buffer using command line
I use tmux to copy text while in copy-mode often, but what I'd like to do is copy text using command line instead of entering copy-mode.
For example, when I'm in vim directly on my mac computer, I ...
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Vim with ruby support on fedora
Are there any packages in the fedora repos that have vim with ruby support enabled? It seems that debian has these packages but I am unable to find the same thing for Fedora.
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vim: How to insert output of shell command in-line?
Suppose I want to edit a new libvirt XML file:
virsh dumpxml machine1 > machine2.xml
Then I open the file with vim,
vim machine2.xml
and then I want to change the UUID. Now do this, I use
:r !...
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Is possible to search in vim history?
On bash I press CTRL+R and typing vim bash return list of commands typed in past with vim string.Is possible to make something like this in vim history for commands starting with the : ?
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Vim freezes in insert mode when .vimrc contains set tags=tags;
I am using vim-gtk on Ubuntu 16.04 and use exuberant-ctags to generate a tags file in the root directory of my project. My instance of vim would randomly freeze in insert mode, usually after inserting ...
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Replace block of text with sed, awk, perl or vim
I am trying to replace every instance of a block of six rows with another block of six rows, just reducing the six rows block of two columns to a six rows block of only one column.
Thank you to your ...
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How to layout this bar with vimscript?
I'm trying writing a vim completion script, but I don't know how to layout this bar with vimscript. How to trigger this bar when in i mode(Can I make it with vimscript)? And how to customize the ...
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are there side-effects to remapping/aliasing less to vim?
I added the following to .bashrc to remap less to vim
alias vsi='vim -R -c ":map Q :q!<enter>" -' # Vim Standard Input [readonly]
alias less='vsi'
the reason is that I don't want to maintain ...
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Can't install Vim on Debian 9
Sorry buy it's in spanish:
~# apt install vim
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
El paquete vim no está disponible, pero ...
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Why I don't see the difference between two different files in insert mode in vim?
Let's create two files:
$ echo -n 'test' > test.txt
$ wc test.txt
0 1 4 test.txt
The file test.txt doesn't contain the trailing newline.
$ echo 'test' > test_n.txt
$ wc test_n.txt
1 1 5 ...
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Vim - How do I paste a inner-word to line above?
I always use the following commands to yank an inner word and then paste it in the line above: yiw -> O -> Esc -> p
Obviously P by itself (without using O to insert a line above) doesn't ...
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failed to execute child process xterm (no such file or directory)
When I right click on a file and select vim from upcoming tabs I get this error. Some files of vim should missing. In addition I'm able run vim from bash but can't run from desktop.
Debian 9.8 ...
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Open VIM with zle key binding
I would like to setup a bindkey to launch a fuzzy search across projects, home directories, files etc... and launch some command depending of the choosen file type.
If the file is a regular file, I ...
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cat shows file contents, gedit and vim show blank file
I was planning on building a current logging device with an Arduino, and tried starting off with the basic SD-card write example from the Arduino IDE sketchbook.
The Serial console showed no errors, ...
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How vim overwrites readonly mode? [duplicate]
Quite often we see that the file we are trying to save in vim after edit is reported to be read-only. The way around this is to add !wq, i am trying to figure out what internally goes that allows the ...
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No change while editing interfaces
I have old Debian Squeeze blackbox device connected via serial terminal. Trying to configure network by editing interfaces:
vim /etc/network/interfaces
When I finish and do save no problems was ...
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How can I set the default editor as nano on my Mac?
I have vim as default editor on my Mac and every time I run commands on Mac terminal, it automatically opens "vim".
How can I set up "nano" instead and make sure the terminal will open "nano" every ...
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Vim - opening man pages
I'm aware that exists a shortcut to open manpage of current function (the function cursor is on), but I can't recall how to do that.
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Best way to get rid import error in `vim-latexsuite`
I'm running Arch Linux and I have the vim-latexsuite package installed. A while ago I noticed started getting an error whenever I opened a .tex file:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<...
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How to split a window with terminal below in vim with predefined size
What I want is something like:
:below 10sp
Then open the terminal:
:terminal ++curwin
This two commands do exactly what I want but I don't know if it is the best way.
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How to open multiple man pages in split in vim?
From View man pages in Vim, I learnt how to open man pages in vim by adding the following lines to ~/.vimrc:
" Enable viewing man page in vim by ":Man ..."
runtime ftplugin/man.vim
" Set keyword 'K' ...
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Privilege escalation with sudo vim
I have the following problem:
I configured sudo with permissions for everything except for a few commands, remove, reboot, shutdown, block from sudo to shell, preventing a user from elevating the ...
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prevent vim from replacing % with file name
I am messing around with .vimrc and I had this idea to have function like follow:
function Fill_line ()
execute "! printf '=%.0s' {1..10}"
endfunction
my output is:
Hello =test.cpp.0s
I ...
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Validate `~/.vimrc`
I want to validate that my ~/.vimrc file is correct, basically just by launching vim and immediately running quit. I can almost do this with vim -c quit, except that I have to press the enter key. For ...
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Remove multi line comments in vim
I want to remove a multi line comment in vim:
/**
* Factory for creating [MainViewModel]
*
* @param arg the repository to pass to [MainViewModel]
*/
I tried
%s,/\*.*\*/,,gc
but it doesn't work ...
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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 ...
