I've set the following options in .vimrc set listchars=tab:▸\ ,trail:· set list And expected to see dots in those places where spaces are used for tabulation in the code (I use spaces, not tabs)...

How do I need to adjust my vimrc to make vertical scrolling smoother? I want to achieve that one iteration of the mouse wheel just scrolls one instead of three lines.

When I run Vim from inside a tmux session and copy some text to the clipboard, each line gets padded with spaces to the right. For example, say I have a text file like this: ^some$ ^text$ Note:...

I've recently installed vim text editor on my Windows. I've looked for any explanation about the location of vimrc file on Google, but I couldn't find any meaningful explanation. Where can I find v...

In TeX vim usually screws up my indentation. Mainly when I'm in a displayed equation which I think should look like this: \[ x=\frac{y}{z} \] where the whitespace infront of the x is one tab. ...

In my vimrc, I've remapped jk to escape using imap. The problem emerges when I use jk; it doesn't escape, it only echoes out <Esc>. Here's the entry in quiestion: imap jk <Esc> It's...

I know how to copy a word, but I seem to overwrite what is in my clipboard because, when I try to copy over a word, it does not seem to be working. To copy a word, I can use bye How to copy ...

I am trying to use Vim to locate and copy/paste some code I need to analyze and take notes on. I am using Debian, in a Windows WSL environment. That's what makes this tricky. The regular "yank and...

Is it possible in Vim to have my editor (when editing .c and .h files), show via listchars, a special character only for leading space characters? I found a separate post that noted, as of version...

I use WSL Ubuntu and Vim inside the new Windows Terminal, but if I have to enter the visual-block mode with C-v, I can't since it acts as paste. I am okay with rebinding it to something else but I ...

In an attempt to make myself use the shorter keystroke to get a colon, I have the following mappings defined in my .vimrc file: noremap ; : noremap : ; However, this breakes some of my other mappi...

I am trying to create an Ansible script to set up my mac. One role is to set up vim. A first clone my dot-files into a local folder and symlink them to ~/. In my vimrc I use vundle to install exten...

my autoindent is not working, any diagnostic tests to figure it out? my ":set" is: :set --- Options --- cindent laststatus=2 scroll=17 tabstop=4 window=36 filetype=cpp number smartindent tt...

How can I restore a vim file from the undo file without hitting undo? I had a vim file that I saved while adding text. Then I ran a python command that emptied the file's contents, and I can see s...

I'm working with a C++ project and trying to configure it to use syntastic. In my project I have a nested directory structure of header files (The actual nested structure is much worse, this is an ...

I have fzf setup in vim with barely any customisation: " fzf and ripgrep settings set rtp+=/usr/local/opt/fzf let g:fzf_action = { \ 'ctrl-t': 'tab split', \ 'ctrl-i': 'split', \ 'ctrl-s': 'vsp...

I want to be able to navigate the cursor across functions using Vim. Mainly, I want a command to allow me to go to the next function, like } allows me to go to the next paragraph. I found this: Go...

I'm just starting to use vim. I would like to know if there is a simple default key binding that will allow me to add a space in normal mode. If not what is the next best alternative?

How do I go to the beginning of the line in vim editor in normal mode? Is it possible to using my Home key on keyboard on Linux?

Is there a simple way (i.e. without writing a script or elaborate keymap sequence) to Yank a group of lines and leave the cursor wherever the Yank was performed, as opposed to at the start of the b...

So when I'm using Vim in the mac osx terminal I accidentally enter the command cmd+k that clears my terminal because I'm used to the motion, this makes me have to exit vim and enter again. I want t...

I usually open many files in tabs with vim -p. Is it possible to check if any of the files was changed outside of Vim since editing started?

I normally use gVim for editing, but I sometimes use vim when remotely connecting to my machine. When I have a file opened in gVim and it has changed from outside (e.g. new updates from repository...

I'd like to use VIM to write papers for some classes I'm in. The problem I'm having is with the formatting of lines in the editor. If I don't explicitly break the end of a line with the enter key, ...

I have VIM netrw split setting to open any file in a right-side Preview Buffer, and it works fine. My problem is that a new file is automatically open in netrw buffer, when I create the new file ...