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My vim syntax highlighting just lead me to believe that status is a keyword in JavaScript. Searching around all I can find are articles about window.status in browser JavaScript. Is this the meani...
Wonacott asked 6/4, 2018 at 2:50

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Sometimes while editing three files using vimdiff I want to copy a hunk from one file to both of the other two. Normally this would be accomplished like so: :diffput 2 :diffput 3 However, :help ...
Rheinland asked 25/10, 2013 at 16:16

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To copy a file in Vim using netrw has the following steps: Select the destination directory (using mt) Select the file to be copied (using mf) Proceed with copying (using mc) The commands to us...
Pioneer asked 4/8, 2015 at 13:57

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I use vim to develop on my mac and I updated to Mountain Lion yesterday. I was using http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ this to remap the escape key's function to caps lock to switch between ...
Chug asked 27/7, 2012 at 3:11

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I cannot copy into the + or * register. :echo has('clipboard') from within Vim returns 0 meaning I don't have that feature flag, I don't want to recompile. I'm running wayland so I cannot use X1...
Planoconvex asked 23/4, 2020 at 4:20

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When I start vim with one of these plugins: TagBar Session I see sometimes garbage characters in the buffer when I open vim. Here are these characters: ;2R^[[>1;2802;0c By uninstalling t...
Commissionaire asked 7/2, 2014 at 3:16

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I am new to vim, and I learn that you can interact with the terminal two ways while in vim. The first is to type: ! . The second is :term, when you have a terminal side by side with your source cod...
Cedilla asked 19/2, 2019 at 0:19

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Is it possible in Vim to lock the top line of a window so that the first line in buffer is always seen on top of the window? I have a file, say, dump of a database table. On the first line there a...
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Conviction asked 20/11, 2009 at 21:21

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In gVim if the cursor is over a filename (like "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim71\README.txt" ) which contains spaces then using 'gf' fails. I found the isfname option but the documentation says one sho...
Fromenty asked 29/10, 2009 at 11:13

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I am using Linux Mint and I installed clang_complete using the makefile from Clang Complete, but it does not work. When I open a cpp file, there is an error message: Loading libclang failed, comple...
Ferrari asked 29/3, 2014 at 16:54

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How do I get the width of 3 (marked with green color in the image) in vim script? If there is no signs column, and there are no other "special columns", I can get it with winwidth(0) - (max([l...
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Artificial asked 11/10, 2014 at 14:52

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On the YouCompleteMe Documentation, there are two options for setting up support for C/C++ semantic support. The first is using a compilation database with CMake (e.g. the file compile_commands.jso...
Worst asked 31/1, 2018 at 16:21

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I have installed nvim using AppImage mentioned as below curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim.appimage chmod u+x nvim.appimage ./nvim.appimage if i use nvim test...
Daguerre asked 21/10, 2020 at 12:11

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I use this color scheme: Cobalt Colour scheme. I cannot see the cursor in insert mode. How I can change the cursor's color? I think this is the cursor part: hi CursorLine guifg=none guibg=#002943 h...
Saurel asked 3/6, 2011 at 17:23

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Say I want to edit the following line: var myVar = "I am a string!"; So that it looks like this: var myVar = "I am a string!"; Is there a movement that goes to the end of the previous line?...
Stibnite asked 27/5, 2015 at 20:12

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I've activated showing the line numbers with the relative line numbers active by including the following lines in my .vimrc: " Set line-numbers set nu set relativenumber This all works nicely...
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Cleavland asked 7/11, 2015 at 11:23

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Does anyone have a plugin or macro to replace matching { braces } with do and end in Vim? Preferably turning a single-line statement like this: foo.each { |f| f.whatever } into: foo.each do |f|...
Krakow asked 16/3, 2013 at 2:38

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I'm using vim with YouCompleteMe (YCM) plugin for C programming. YCM needs a json file to show code completion suggestions or a manually crafted .ycm_extra_conf.py file. Build systems like cmake an...
Interposition asked 1/9, 2018 at 6:5

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I am trying to parse a giant log file using node.js, the file does not seem to get '\n' but when I do set list in vi it shows me '$" at the end of every line, does anyone know what that is. I means...
Plumbaginaceous asked 15/7, 2011 at 7:15

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I want to use gvim to view a log file which is being updated continuously, such that I always see the last updated line, much like tail command in unix. Is it possible?
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Batsheva asked 15/5, 2009 at 9:22

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The built-in VIM :sort command sorts lines of text. I want to sort words in a single line, e.g. transform the line b a d c e f to a b c d e f Currently I accomplish this by selecting the line...
Beadsman asked 25/8, 2009 at 12:30

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When trying to use vim-latexsuite's mappings, the ones using Leader are not working: :nmap ---------------------------------------- n <Leader>rf @<Plug>Tex_RefreshFolds n <Leader&gt...
Governess asked 19/7, 2012 at 11:53

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I've come up with this, but is there simple way I'm missing? for s:char in split(s:string, '.\zs\ze.')
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Cayla asked 17/7, 2013 at 5:31

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I'm having the problem that ctags in vim/gvim takes me to a forward declaration a lot of times instead of to the actual definition of the function. Any way to get around that?
Ferula asked 28/6, 2009 at 10:53

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I'd like to have a command I can insert into a command pipeline that adds color escapes to its input according to vim's syntax highlighting capabilities. For example: cat somefile.js | vim - <...
Jackinthepulpit asked 30/10, 2013 at 1:30

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