Questions tagged [vim]
vim (Vi IMproved) is a text editor supporting different editing modes.
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Refresh Termite after being resized in Tiling WM
My goal is to create an instance of termite with vim running in it. I opted for sxhkd an created a simple configuration file:
# My Simple X HotKey Daemon Configuration File
super + v
termite --exec &...
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Scroll, instead of move cursor, if at end of file
I find myself unintentionally hitting j (or some other downward cursor movement key) when I'm at the bottom of a file. Then the next thing I do is to hit Ctrl-E to scroll the current line up - I may ...
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Setting EDITOR variable causes “E886: Can't rename viminfo file” when editing Crontab
I use Vim as my editor.
I wanted to have syntax colouring when editing Crontab with crontab -e.
I followed this answer. After setting variable EDITOR=vim and exporting it crontab -e now shows syntax ...
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What’s most simple way to sync ~/.vimrc?
I’m using SSH and Bash more and more. I continue to train with vim to improve automation. Customizing the configuration file ~/.vimrc greatly helps.
I am very interested in the question: Is it ...
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Strange “uneditable” symbols on specific linebreaks in vim, Debian 10 (Pic)
In all files I open with vim, I see a strange 1/2 symbol showing up on the second line, but only if the second line contains a unix linebreak. It always appears on line 2 of the file. The character is ...
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Mapping of { and } does not work in chain commands like `di{`
I mapped the following and tried with either and both mappings activated in hope to cover all vim modes:
map! ĸ {
map ĸ {
The mapping works in insert mode and in normal mode as expected, but when I ...
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Colorscheme in Vim not correct colors
I downloaded this colorscheme here
https://vimcolors.com/1199/pulumi/dark
But this is what my Vim ends up looking like after applying it. I know it is definitely being applied because my colors ...
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Nvim: Warning: Cannot find word list “cz.utf-8.spl” or “cz.ascii.spl”
When I turn on spell checking for Czech language, this happens:
:Sccz
No spell file for "cz" in utf-8
Download it?
Downloading cz.utf-8.spl...
:!curl 'http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/...
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Proper pasting from clipboard doesn't work in st (simple terminal)
If you are wondering you had seen the same question on r/suckless on reddit, I am the same person and upon getting no satisfactory answer I decided to post it here.
I am trying to patch st to have ...
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Disable auto tabs when putting your first comment in a yaml files with VIM editor?
Example of text before changes:
First line
Second line
Third line
When you put a comment on a line it will auto tab once that line.
This happens every time you switch from ESCAPE mode to INSERT mode ...
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Configuration file for shell script?
Is it possible to define a configuration file for zsh scripts?
I am running macOS 10.15 and the default shell is zsh.
I have defined, i.e., alias abc="echo yes" in ~/.zshrc, ~/.zsh_profile, ~...
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Remap <leader>q to exit vim
I'm relatively new to vim rebinds; I am trying to map <leader>q to exit vim, but the following rebind does not seem to work:
map <leader>q :q<cr>
However, all of the following seem ...
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How do I properly convert the file to UTF-16LE encoding without strange characters appearing in the file?
I'm having some peculiarities with the dictionary file of .dsl format I'm trying to convert. It's essentially a text file with the dictionary pairs. The dictionary software I use is GoldenDict. It ...
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Reliable way to open files given by the result of find … -exec grep … {} \+
I often run commands like this:
find … -exec grep … --color=always -l {} \+
and sometimes I need to open the matching files in Vim.
But what is the most reliable way to do so?
One way seems to be
vim ...
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neovim: writes ^I instead of tab
I tried plugin vim-indentguides and did not work well so I decided to remove it using Plug. After uninstall is nvim writing ^I instead of tabs. How can I fix it ?
Here is my init.vim and demonstration ...
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Vim-based alternative for Emacs tramp-mode
I'm currently using vim (actually neovim) as my IDE for writing and executing GNU R-code (using the Nvim-R-plugin, see also https://github.com/jalvesaq/Nvim-R, which serves as my REPL), which works ...
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How to edit a text file without a text editor?
I found myself in a situation, where I needed to connect to a remote machine there were no text editors installed (no vi or nano).
The only way to edit text files is to use echo and cat.
Can you ...
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How can I make vim only write to file after buffer has been modified?
I have this function which sources my .zshrc only if it has been modified in vim but I recently reinstalled Windows and WSL and then used my old .zshrc and .vimrc to get my setup back but this ...
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How to make vim recognize the script type and turn on autoindent and syntax highlighting, without needing to save and reopen file?
I don't save my shell scripts with a .sh extension. So when i launch a new file with vim using vim <filename>, it identifies the script type by reading the shebang. Naturally, this only happens ...
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Issue launching vim using xargs -r on a fzf result [duplicate]
I think I am misunderstanding something in the Linux piping with respect to xargs -r in combination with fzf.
In my bashrc I have the function
ef ()
{
fzf | xargs -r -I vim
}
But written like ...
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How can I launch fzf inside vim and open the selected file on a split window?
How can I launch fzf inside vim and open the selected file on a split window? I don't want to install any plugin.
I tried
:!a=$(ls | fzf) && vsplit $a
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NeoVim - Strange colours in svn ci
I am using neovim as my standard editor on my system.
But when I do a check in, it shows the first two lines in strange colours.
Why is that and how can I change it to normal?
Thanks in advance.
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iterm2 - vim is printing line numbers while scrolling
In iterm2, while scrolling in the vim I see a strange behavior. Whenever I am scrolling it is printing line number with scrolling. How to overcome from this behavior
call-hometic_scale_1.txt" ...
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In zsh vim mode, when replacing multiple characters, backspace does not work as expected
I want to do the following: In the console, in vim mode, replace several characters (vim command R), while being able to revert the changes with backspace. In bash it works the same as in vim:
bash
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Why can't I run Vim 8.2 from the LXDE menu?
I uninstalled Vim 8.0 with sudo apt remove vim-common, and compiled and installed the latest version:
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim/src
make
sudo make install
I can run Vim 8.2 ...
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Why can't remove vim?
uname -a
Linux MiWiFi-R3-srv 4.19.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2~bpo9+1 (2020-05-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
sudo dpkg -l vim
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-...
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How do I open files in a new tab from :Lexplore in VIM
When using netrw as :Lex, opening a file simply replaces the current file open. How do I open a file in a new tab from Lex or in a new vertical split?
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Terminal isn't reset to previous state when quitting a man page or vim on XFCE [duplicate]
I use XFCE and its built-in terminal on FreeBSD. When I view a man page and then quit it - by pressing Q - the contents of the man page stay in the terminal. In a GNOME terminal that doesn't happen: ...
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How to import tmux setting for vim to normal vim?
When using tmux my color/font/syntax highliting in VIM gets improved. How can i import that
red/yellow/white combination of color in .vimrc file. I want that.
VIM ON TMUX:
AND THIS IS MY NORMAL UGLY ...
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What is the encoding format of a binary file(OBJ file,a.out,ELF etc..) [closed]
When I open a binary file in vim, I see the mnemonics instead of the 0s and 1s. I believe this is due to the fact that vim by default opens the file in ASCII mode. Is my understanding right? What is ...
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Creating vimrc breaks vim
I'm currently logged into a server via ssh with ssh -Y and running a tmux session.
If I start vim and run :colorscheme elflord the color scheme is changed. (Although the colors are not exactly what I ...
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shell globbing to open all files with vim not working as expected
I'm trying to open and edit a series of files with vim. My expected behaviour, is that vim opens one file, I edit it, type :wq, vim closes and saves that file, and then immediately opens the next file ...
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crontab -e with jump to line option?
My $EDITOR is vim and when launching vim the direct way, you can jump directly to what you are interested with the +/ option. For example:
vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root +/rsync
But using the ...
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How do I compile vim with +clientserver on arch linux?
I am trying to use vim to edit TeX files with vimtex. I would like to be able to do backwards search from compiled PDFs. The vimtex documentation says the following:
|+clientserver| is necessary for ...
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Is there a way to make vim run the “make” command in another terminal window?
I mainly use vim as an editor for C/C++ programming. Unfortunately, I'm not quite satisfied with the way my build process works. I know that it's possible to type in (or map to a key) :make to run the ...
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Vim edit file listed in current buffer
If I have opened in vim a file with the following contents
foo.html
bar/baz.html
I currently have to type
:e bar/baz.html
to open that file for editing.
I'd prefer to have a command that ...
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How to use a series of commands on vim
Hi guys in the terminal I use the command cat file.txt | sort | uniq -c . First I would like to use that command on vim and save the output to another file without the output being print when I run ...
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How to replace a pattern in brackets Using Vim editor
Having a file with two feilds which is :(colon) delimited as shown below:
Ram:con_[3:4]_aen[52:7]
Rakesh:sync[0:128]
I need to convert the :(colon) using vim editor which is in brackets [] to ! as ...
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GNU Octave: `sh: vim: command not found`
I am running GNU Octave from flatpak and I have an issue with the edit command. In Octave's CLI when I run
edit file.m
I got the following issue:
sh: vim: command not found
I have the following set ...
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How to remap characters like in vim but in the entire OS?
In my vim instead using hjkl to moving I use Alt Gr+(wasd) (like in a game but enabling it with Alt Gr) and I love it, please don't try to convince me that is bad idea, it is not the case.
In fact, as ...
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How to copy full vim/vi remote file content to my local clipboard
I am having a file in the remote machine ( connected with customized ssh not Normal ssh ) .I do not have a way to copy/move the file to my local ( No scp allowed and no other connectivity ) .I am ...
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Converting colo schemes to different applications
Do you know about Project Dracula? https://draculatheme.com/ Dracula is a project where a initially zsh color theme is ported to over 100 different applications.
I love this project, i think it's a ...
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vi, or vim, on Centos7, overwrites the previous 30 lines in my bash window and thus those line are lost forever
I'm running Centos7 with TERM=linux. Whenever I open a file with vi, or vim, the previous 30 lines in my bash window are over written. vi works fine, but when scrolling back, those 30 lines are lost ...
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How to make undo history interoperable between emacs and vim?
Is it possible to share undo history of a file between emacs and vim?
I think it can be very useful: for example if your emacs config is broken and you want to quick edit files with vim to repair it.
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I've broken vi (E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:) - how do I fix it?
I am very much new to Debian, and have been using vi/vim to harden my SSH settings under sshd_config.
Recently I've had a persistent error message:
E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line:
I've ...
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How to execute function within double quotes?
I have these function:
#execute vim and then exit on err return
ve() {
vim "$@" || exit
}
export -f ve
#compile c source -> asm source in new tab in xfce terminal
casm() {
[ -z ${1} ] &&...
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Remap CapsLock and make it not lock capital letters
I wanted to remap CapsLock to work as escape, and I did it. What I did was:
setxkbmap -option caps:escape
But that method has a problem. Whenever I press CapsLock, on top it of working as escape, it ...
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Vim Plugin - Easymotion isn't starting automatically
I'm trying to improve my neovim with plugins and the best plugin that I found is Easymotion. However, it do not start automatically. I need to do :source ~/.vimrc every time that I launch a file. How ...
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Vim and Tmux doens't fit with each other
My colors breaks on tmux and i tried almost everything i could find on the web, NONE of them should actualy solve this problem.
This is my colors inside tmux
im using the default vim theme but all ...
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how to keep stty sane after piping strace to vim?
this makes vim madness:
$strace -o >(vim -; stty sane) file.out; stty sane
I have typed stty sane in processed substitution as well as in next command but none of them did their job. Once i piped ...
