vim Questions
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How do I globally configure git to use a particular editor (e.g. vim) for commit messages?
Leyte asked 8/4, 2010 at 0:28
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I access a sever over ssh on which I run vim for editing files. When I try to yank text from vim into an editor locally on my mac (lion) either with y OR "+y it does not work. I end up with the tex...
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Is there a way to profile Vim plugins?
My MacVim becomes slower and slower when I open a large .py. I know I could deselect all plugins and reselect one by one to check which plugin is the culprit...
Sarcastic asked 31/8, 2012 at 10:33
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I recently started learning Vim and before I go deeper I have a question I need answered.
Using a AZERTY keyboard, should I remap the keys for the commands and shortcuts to fit the position of the...
Snub asked 20/10, 2015 at 19:33
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The % key is one of the best features of vim: it lets you jump from { to }, [ to ], and so on.
However, it does not work by default with quotes: Either " or ', probably because the opening and cl...
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Whenever I execute a command like :imap, Vim fires up some sort of (internal?) pager that doesn't support searching through the output. Is there any way to configure Vim to use a different pager?
Alderson asked 15/9, 2013 at 21:20
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Which is the shortest way to select an entire line without the new line character in VIM?
I know that SHIFT + v selects the entire line, but with new line character.
To do this I go to the line...
Ulric asked 23/11, 2013 at 17:34
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Open Source project Trac has an excellent diff highlighter — it highlights changed lines and changed bytes in each changed line! See here or here for examples.
Is there way to use the same c...
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I use the following Vim macro a lot (it puts the current line inside XML tags):
I<e>^[A</e>
So I saved it into my .vimrc
let @e='I<e>^[A</e>'
But it does not work.
Th...
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I want to apply a search and replace regular expression pattern that work only in a given range of line and column on a text file like this :
AAABBBFFFFBBBAAABBB
AAABBBFFFFBBBAAABBB
GGGBBBFFFFBHH...
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There is a phrase that I want to look for in Vim. When found, I want to delete that occurrence of the phrase. What is the easiest way to cycle through all the occurrences (via n), and delete a matc...
Panhellenic asked 20/10, 2011 at 21:14
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The airline plugin has an extension which uses Tagbar to show the current function name.
(I know this because of this question which I found via asking this question)
This works really well and l...
Novick asked 18/11, 2015 at 18:9
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I select a block of text using Ctrl-V, but when I then type Shift-A or Shift-I, my vim editor goes into insert mode on only the location where I began the visual block mode.
For example,
Here
is ...
Freese asked 17/2, 2013 at 20:53
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I know how to generally move around in command mode, specifically, jumping to lines, etc. But what is the command to jump to the end of the line that I am currently on?
Lahdidah asked 19/9, 2008 at 21:19
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When I do an interactive rebase, e.g.
git rebase -i HEAD~3
the rebase interactive editor (vim in my case) opens to let me edit the commits to rebase
pick c843ea2 Set Vim column limit to 80 (OS ...
Solution asked 1/12, 2014 at 10:58
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I'm looking for a convenient way to quickly look up the documentation for different functions and/or packages in Go. My current approach is to google for say ioutil.ReadFile, but that is pretty slo...
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Currently, if I type :Glog I get the list of revisions for the current file.
If I type :Glog -- I get the list of commits for all files.
What do I need to type to get the list of commits for the cu...
Keikokeil asked 20/9, 2013 at 19:48
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I have made my .vimrc fitting my needs in a quite cool way and I'm already really used to it. That's why I get always confused when my different shortcut and bindings don't work as they do in the g...
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I am currently playing around with emacs and happy with most of the concepts. But I really adored the convenience of the three vim commands: dd,o,O
Hopefully you can tell me how to mirror them in e...
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My current setting assumes 8 spaces; how could I redefine it?
Dunedin asked 10/12, 2009 at 6:18
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When I open Vim from a terminal, copy some text to the system clipboard, and exit Vim, the system clipboard gets cleared.
How to keep the copied text in the clipboard?
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I have been writing R scripts in Vim for some time now. Starting an hour ago, I began facing an issue that every time I type an underscore (_), it gets automatically converted to <-.
What sett...
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I want to debug a process, hence I attached strace to the process and redirected the output to a file and then performed the operation. During the process it has created a lot of processes. So here...
Onanism asked 16/6, 2011 at 14:11
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This maybe really simple, But I tried searching and I ended up with stuff like copying multiple lines, cut and paste multiple lines etc. What am looking for is pasting a single line multiple times ...
Hyrax asked 22/5, 2013 at 20:26
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Here's the scenario.
I am on the unix command line (in home directory). I want to browse the directory through
$ vim .
thus opening the vim netrw.
Now I am browsing the directory using the net...
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