On 2016-08-28 15:33, jf...@worcester.edu wrote:
> I have a question. I am trying to create a function that uses
> visually selected text. For example:
>
> Let's say I have
>
> 12345
>
> And I highlight the characters
>
> 234
>
> How would I access the selected text '234' within a vim funct
On 2016-09-13 08:23, Amit Christian wrote:
> I find it still difficult to go to next lines or browsing up or
> down through the text. Can any one please help me with efficient
> use of working with text without a usual j,k,h,l use? Are there
> resources or help on internet? What are your strategies
On 2016-09-15 07:53, Amit Christian wrote:
> > I have disabled (temporarily) the use of j, k, h, l (using
> > HardMode vim plugin).
>
> I think my decision about disabling hljk (even temporarily) may not
> be good. I userstand that it is not recommended to disable an
> inbuilt capability. But In
On 2016-09-17 14:29, Ni Va wrote:
> norm 1G does not work on vim8.0.4
I just pulled from source and tested both 8.0.4 and the current tip
and it works in both. Have you tried it without your startup files?
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On 2016-09-17 14:47, Ni Va wrote:
> > > norm 1G does not work on vim8.0.4
> >
> > I just pulled from source and tested both 8.0.4 and the current
> > tip and it works in both. Have you tried it without your startup
> > files?
>
> no how van i disable it ?
$ vim -u NONE yourfile.txt
should do.
On 2016-09-17 15:04, Ni Va wrote:
> On Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 11:51:10 PM UTC+2, Tim Chase
> wrote:
> > On 2016-09-17 14:47, Ni Va wrote:
>>>>> norm 1G does not work on vim8.0.4
>
>> $ vim -u NONE yourfile.txt
>
> OK some loaded plugins may ca
On 2016-09-18 03:57, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> And if you are writing `norm 1G` somewhere (e.g. in a plugin), then
> just write it as `normal! 1G` (with bang).
And stepping back, if you're writing *either* "norm 1G" or "norm! 1G"
just write
1
or whichever line-number you want to g
On 2016-09-18 02:55, Ni Va wrote:
> > And stepping back, if you're writing *either* "norm 1G" or "norm!
> > 1G" just write
> >
> > 1
> >
> > or whichever line-number you want to go to. Likewise, just use
> > "$" rather than "norm G" or "norm! g"
> >
> > :help range
> >
> > -tim
>
> Than
On 2016-09-24 11:55, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> - In most cases, it is safe to use the F and Shift-F "function" keys
> with the exception of (Help) and sometimes of (Menu)
> - If you have non-ASCII printing characters on your keyboard, you
> can use them too. For instance, my Belgian keyboard (show
On 2016-09-24 08:40, Scott Friedemann wrote:
> After installing v8.0 on two different Windows computers, when I
> issue a 'zt' to move the cursor location to the top of the screen,
> there are always 5 lines above the cursor position. I imagine this
> is a setting, but cannot find. This happens wit
On 2016-09-25 13:15, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>> > I wonder how string the builtin encryption of vim really is.
>>
>> Encryption really isn't the business of a text editor. Decrypt the
>> cipher-text, feed it to the editor, encrypt when saving, and be
>> sure to delete any temporary/backup files.
>
>
On 2016-10-08 12:13, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> In various locations on windows I can use ALT+0131 (on the numeric
> pad) to display/input the Unicode "function symbol", 'ƒ', which is
> unicode char 0192 (it's also the Florin currency symbol in the
> Netherlands and called a LATIN SMALL LETTER F with HOO
On 2016-12-02 14:14, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Fr, 02 Dez 2016, Ben Tucker wrote:
>> "TargetTime" example by considering each word in the identifier
>> separately for the purposes of spell checking. So with the
>> "spellcamelcase" option turned on, "Target" and "Time" are spell
>> checked sepa
On 2016-12-14 01:03, Slartibartfast wrote:
> Anyone know a way to achieve setting the search word like this
> without causing the screen to be scrolled? I'm sure it must be
> possible but I'm having trouble working it out myself.
Could do something like
:nnoremap * :let @/='\'.expand('cword>')
On 2016-12-14 04:34, Slartibartfast wrote:
> > :nnoremap * :let @/='\'.expand('cword>').'\>'
>
> Wow, what on earth does that mean?
>
> I tried it all the same and yes it does indeed work in gVim but I
> have no idea why.
It remaps the "*" key to run the ex command that follows.
let @/=
On 2016-12-14 18:31, Carfield Yim wrote:
> 20150204
> 20150304
> 20150309
> 20150323
> 20150331
> 20150416
> 20150608
>
> I would like to change it to
>
> 2015.02.04
> 2015.03.04
> 2015.03.09
> 2015.03.23
> 2015.03.31
> 2015.04.16
> 2015.06.08
>
> How can I do that?
Capture them and reformat t
On 2016-12-15 15:21, tooth pik wrote:
> now, in vim, in konsole, in kwin, in kde, in leap 42.2 when I press
> F11 the window
> maximizes and if I press it again it resets
>
> can someone by any chance here tell me which of the above suspects
> is stealing my
> F11 and how to make them stop?
I'd f
On 2016-12-19 19:14, Zhe Lee wrote:
> I mean when I copy several line in the vim, the command line will
> show the lines has been yanked. But when number of yanked line is
> over 22(I test it), the command line will show nothing when the
> copy is done. But it becomes a little inconvenient for me t
On 2017-01-02 03:42, Tihomir Mitkov wrote:
> Is it possible to have certain lines uneditable while keeping the
> rest of them editable?
The closest I've heard of is the "narrow region" plugin
https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn
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On 2017-01-07 17:45, Zhe Lee wrote:
> if the cursor is on the first line first column (on `a` now). And
> then I press `*` I want to find the `a-b` but the vim just search
> `a` instead of `a-b`, so how to make * to include the dash `-`?
Add the dash to your 'iskeyword' setting:
:set isk+=-
Th
On 2017-02-04 05:14, Marcus Martinez wrote:
> ...and modified the first ten lines using Sed substitution...
> :1,10 s/^/--/
>
> After running this command the beginning of lines 1 through 10 do
> have the "--" correctly placed. However, the first character of
> each line in the file is now highlig
On 2017-02-05 16:30, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:41:34 +0100
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > On So, 05 Feb 2017, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> > > :nnoremap :nohlsearch
> > >
> > > In normal mode, Esc does nothing but ring the bell, so this
> > > feels intuitive to me. :)
> >
> >
On 2017-02-05 18:09, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 16:14:41 -0600 Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2017-02-05 16:30, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>>> On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:41:34 +0100
>>> Christian Brabandt wrote:
>>>> That is known to confuse the Vim parser
On 2017-02-09 16:06, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> I don't think it can be done with one command. Simplest seems to
> be to copy the text and then filter it.
> (visually select the text)
> YP
> gv
> :!filter-command
>
> Would not be a bad idea to have an Ex command for this. No
On 2017-02-11 11:26, Arun wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:37 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>> Perhaps this will work:
>> :{range}copy {address} !cmd
>>
>
> Just wondering how this would work with :g, hope it wont be
> executing the filter against each line, rather as a whole. It would
> be
On 2017-02-13 13:34, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>
> The two patterns, \< and \> match w-word boundaries. Is there
> something to match W-word boundaries? The best I came up with is:
>
> \(^\|\s\)\@<=
>
> I'm writing a syntax file for G+ comments where in-line styles start
> with a W-word boundary,
On 2017-03-01 00:41, sinbad wrote:
> i want to hightlight a word following a certain word. For instance.
> In the below example, i want to highlight the words that appear
> after 'key' which are one, two and three. how can i do that?
>
> 1.txt:
>
> key one
> key two
> abc def
> key three
If you
On 2017-03-05 09:20, Pablo Contreras wrote:
> s/$/XXX/
[snip]
> s/$\_.*/XXX/
>
> apparently should match 'end-of-line, then using \_. any char
> including enf-of-line as many times as necessary to the end of the
> file. Then replace with XXX
>
> instead this happens:
> 'E486: Pattern $\_.* not
On 2017-03-05 12:18, lothar atheling wrote:
> how do i substitute variable into text i am editing?
> also, same question with respect to an expression.
>
> "execute" may work, but it seems something heavy-handed.
> is there a better way?
The usual way to do this is to use
:help sub-replace-spe
On 2017-03-06 08:01, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 1:55:19 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2017-03-05 09:20, Pablo Contreras wrote:
>>> s/$/XXX/
>> [snip]
>>> s/$\_.*/XXX/
>> From
>>
>> :help /$
>>
>> "&
On 2017-03-12 13:56, George Skuse wrote:
> I'd like to have the filename dynamically datestamped
> (MMdd_hhmmss), ie: filename-20170312_165737.txt
>
> Does anyone know how this could be accomplished as part of the
> invocation using vim commands? This needs to be crossplatform and
> not rely
On 2017-03-16 05:05, a joeiam wrote:
> Issue:working in a file with about 6800 lines I find an error. Need
> to add two lines to one 'section'. Used +y to yank and then used
> +GP to place. Was absolutely unable to place the lines. Instead the
> 2 lines were place at the end of the document.
It lo
On 2017-03-16 13:12, o1bigtenor wrote:
> Trying to find the cheat sheet where I found the +GP command for
> pasting. Of course cannot find it now!
Count your blessings. If it mis-instructed you on the clipboard
copy/paste, it's not a very good cheat sheet ;-)
> I haven't tried using your suggest
On 2017-03-19 03:51, Honggyu Kim wrote:
> I would like to ask a question regarding getting the current line
> number. I can get it as follows:
>
> :echo line(',')
>
> It works fine but my question is in command execution with '!' in
> the front.
>
> :!echo line('.')
>
> But "line" is not in
On 2017-04-14 13:32, Mike Ciul wrote:
> What do you do when you use the wrong movement with a change? Do
> you soldier on in insert mode? Escape and undo? Escape and move to
> the right place before changing? Do you have habits or mnemonics
> that help you know where the cursor will be after you hi
On 2017-05-18 11:04, Charles E Campbell wrote:
> gvim/vim compiled and linked ok; when I started it up that CRITICAL
> message resulted (I'd just wiped out my vim directory+contents,
> gotten the code via git, re-compiled, and was doing a test-run to
> insure that it actually did compile&link corre
On 2017-05-21 19:54, Joey wrote:
> When I run :right command in gvim, it's ok, like this:
>
>彼外道常说自然，我说因缘。——楞严经
>
> But if I open the txt file with Word, it's like this:
>
> 彼外道常说自然，我说因缘。——楞严
> 经
>
> The last character is returned to the next line
On 2017-05-22 01:49, Joey Ling wrote:
> On Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 8:15:50 PM UTC+8, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I suspect what's happening is that, since Vim does the
> > right-justification with spaces, Word is displaying all those
> > spaces and then not having enoug
On 2017-06-05 19:37, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Both ^a and ^x have proven very useful in a variety of scenarios.
> Now, while editing some postscript, I sometimes have to decrement
> the magnitude of a series of literal constants by a common amount,
> and if there were mod variants of ^a and ^x, I
On 2017-06-06 09:43, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 05.06.17 08:29, Tim Chase wrote:
> > While a side-stepping of your literal request, you can do
> > incrementing/decrementing in search replacements.
> >
> > For all numbers in a range:
> >
> > :'<
On 2017-06-19 19:14, stosss wrote:
> stroke="#c0c0c0" />
>
> I want to change them like this:
>
> stroke="#c0c0c0" />
>
> The "ten" place holder needs to decrease by one.
> x1="20" y1="45" x2="820" y2="45"
>
> Can someone point me to something that would show me a fast way to
> do this?
>
On 2017-06-19 22:29, John Passaro wrote:
> use the expression register:
>
> s/\v\w+\="\zs\d\d+\ze"/\=submatch(0)-10/g
Beware that this catches any variable name (not just [xy][12] which
may or may not be what you want), and also doesn't catch
negative-number values.
But for the general case of t
I just pulled down a clone of the git repo, modified src/Makefile to
point `prefix` at $HOME/local but when I go to build, it complains
that it can't find auto/config.h but as far as I can tell, I'm doing
everything according to the install-from-source instructions in
usr_90:
$ git clone https://
On 2017-06-30 21:43, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Fr, 30 Jun 2017, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > I just pulled down a clone of the git repo, modified src/Makefile
> > to point `prefix` at $HOME/local but when I go to build, it
> > complains that it can't find auto/config.h
On 2017-06-30 22:04, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> The last line, if run successfully, should show this:
> ...
> checking whether we need -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1... yes
> checking linker --as-needed support... yes
> configure: updating cache auto/config.cache
> configure: creating auto/config.status
> co
On 2017-06-30 15:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2017-06-30 22:04, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > The last line, if run successfully, should show this:
> > ...
> > checking whether we need -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1... yes
> > checking linker --as-needed support... yes
> &g
My digging hasn't been able to turn up anything, but I was hoping for
something that would let me easily search just code or comments to
the exclusion of the other. Something like (imaging a sequence like
"\%syntax{SyntaxID}" but actual flavor/implementation is negotiable)
/\%syntax{Comment}cus
On 2017-07-18 15:47, David Fishburn wrote:
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=848
Excellent...I look forward to experimenting with it. Thanks!
-tim
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On 2017-07-30 09:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> Suppose this "steep learning curve" would be a graph
> in the mathematical sense -- I would think, that
> the X-axis represents t (time) and the Y-axis represents
> the amount of knowledge k in turn.
I think the confusion comes because it seems to be a
On 2017-08-11 10:16, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I'd suggest not modifying how Vim behaves / does thing while
> getting started with Vim.
>
> However that does not extend to unconfigured Vim. I say this
> because things like line numbers (:set number), search highlighting
> (:set hlsearch), and (syntax
On 2017-09-11 09:48, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Friday, September 8, 2017 at 6:33:56 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck
> wrote:
> > • if the 'paragraphs' option is not empty, then a dot in column 1
> > immediately followed by one of the disjoint character pairs
> > making up 'paragraphs' is a paragraph start. B
On 2017-09-21 03:59, Igor Forca wrote:
> So, how to display ^I (as single character) instead of horizontal
> spacing produced by tab key?
You want the 'list' setting:
:set list
or toggle it with
:set list!
which you can read about at
:help 'list'
-tim
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On 2017-09-21 08:08, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Get rid of the indentation of the first line:
>
> gg0dw
Or either of the following
gg :set fo=
> :set tw=39
> gggqG
If you prefer to do it with standard *nix tools outside of vim, you
can use
sed 's/^\s*//' in.txt | fmt -w 40 > out
While I can see value in fixing the invalid-free instance described,
a vimscript can already call out to any shell command it wants.
$ echo 'Important file, do not delete'! > important_file.txt
$ echo "call system('touch demo.txt')" > demo.vim
$ echo "call system('rm important_file.txt')" >>
On 2017-10-12 11:41, 'Paolo Zandonella' via vim_use wrote:
> is there the possibility to paste a block of text or insert some
> characters on mouse position after the end of line?
You likely want the 'virtualedit' setting:
:help 've'
which lets you place the cursor in the area after the actual
On 2017-10-16 16:21, John Passaro wrote:
> Sometimes when I open a new vim session, unpredictably, various
> characters appear on the first line, they look like they are
> terminal control characters but I don't know for sure.
>
> For example:
> ;2R^[[>0;95;0c
>
> They go away as soon as I type
Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask. I frequently
will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the resulting
navigation to open in a new window.
$ vim somefile.c
:echo 'In my main code window'
:new
:echo 'I want my vimgrep results HERE'
:vimgrep /pattern/ *.[
On 2017-10-20 21:04, Tim Chase wrote:
> Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask. I frequently
> will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the
> resulting navigation to open in a new window.
Digging a little further, it's not quite as capricious/malic
On 2017-10-23 03:21, dexter i wrote:
> i want to be able to emit the following lines into the file under
> current cursor position. is the word i just
> yanked. what's the best way to achieve this.
>
> {
> .testtype = ; \
> .testtypestring = ""; \
> }
There are some templating pl
On 2017-10-24 12:58, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> I am trying to insert space after first character in a line and a
> space before last character in same line using command mode. I could
> introduce space before first character but could not insert space
> before last character.
>
>
> F783S
> Y625D
>
On 2017-10-26 19:13, Jose Caballero wrote:
> if I want to write a function that does something after every line
> matching a given pattern (for example, for every python method
> definition), what does the community prefer to handle it?
> Just iteratively?
The pattern you describe matches nigh-exa
On 2017-10-26 21:12, Jose Caballero wrote:
> Quick question: when using the :g command, can I call a plugin
> function? Like
>
> :g//:call AFunction()
Yes (that 2nd colon is optional). It would require the function to
context-aware with regards to the current line, but otherwise, it
Should Work™
Taking on the challenge listed here
https://dev.to/jorinvo/csv-challenge-1al
it provides a .json file link to mung into date-named files (never
mind that these happen to all be the same date), I came up with this
vim solution:
:g/.*name":"\([^"]*\)".*card":"\([^"]*\)".*/let
s=substitute(getline(
On 2017-11-14 18:57, Nazri Ramliy wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Tim Chase
> wrote:
> > If I change the "exec" to an "echo", it's as fast as I expect.
> >
> > Any idea what might be making the exec so slow?
>
> It's
On 2017-11-14 18:17, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Di, 14 Nov 2017, Nazri Ramliy wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Tim Chase
> > wrote:
> > > If I change the "exec" to an "echo", it's as fast as I expect.
> > >
> >
On 2017-11-14 00:08, Erik Falor wrote:
> Here's what iotop shows during a typical run:
>
> Total DISK READ : 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE :1372.27 K/s
> Actual DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 2.68 M/s
> TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO>
> COM
On 2017-11-14 22:15, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Some more things to try:
> Does `:set ei=all` or using `:noa :.w` make a difference perhaps?
Makes no difference that I could tell. I ^C'ed it after about 30
seconds in both cases.
> Also does it work better if you explicitly use e.g. writefile(''
On 2017-11-14 22:41, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > Also does it work better if you explicitly use e.g.
> > > writefile('', 'a')?
> >
> > Much faster!
> >
> > :g/.*name":"\([^"]*\)".*card":"\([^"]*\)".*/let
> > s=substitute(getline('.'),
> > '.*stamp":"\(\d\+\)-\(\d\+\)-\(\d\+\).*','\1\2\3',''
On 2017-11-14 19:04, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> Just do one write.
Yeah, I've come up with multiple multi-step solutions and the
solution I came up with *works*, it's just surprisingly slow for
something that can execute in around a second if slightly reworded
(see elsewhere on this thread where Chr
On 2017-11-15 08:25, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Mi, 15 Nov 2017, Dominique Pellé wrote:
> > As highlighted in red, notice that we only write 179,281 bytes to
> > file "20150425.txt" but we open/write/close/fsync 5004 times.
> > That repeated I/O patterns kills performance, especially because
>
On 2017-11-16 08:03, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On the other hand, we can not fsync() at the end of the `:g`
> command, because at that time, we would not have a filehandle to
> fsync().
I suppose one could gather the file-handles used during the :g
command and then issue one fsync() for each of
On 2017-12-10 09:52, Gary Johnson wrote:
> A pattern that will match that string is
>
> "Legend\nfor name\nis not found"
>
> :help /\_.
The "\_" convention holds for things other than "." to add the "and
include newline" connotation, so you can change your spaces to
Legend\_s\+for\_s\
On 2017-12-17 18:49, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I need to apply custom highligthing in a setup that should be simple
> for people who understand highligthing:
>
> I have a bunch of keywords with a common prefix, the single
> character 'c'. The keywords are to be listed one by one, not
> obtained via s
On 2017-12-17 19:16, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Just a detail: is it possible to enumerate the keywords in a
> separate declaration, to improve maintainability? (The actual list
> is more extense). I'm thinking of something similar to:
>
> syntax keyword Foo open close mount umount
>
> Even if it's
On 2018-01-18 22:41, Gua Chung Lim wrote:
> For example gUw is the keystrokes to change the
> > current word to uppercase. Can I put gUw into the command like...
> >
> > :%s/^foobar/gUw/g
> > to change any foobar at the beginning of the line to FOOBAR?
> > (I know this is a wrong example, I'm tryi
On 2018-01-27 02:29, slackyma...@gmail.com wrote:
> "PRINT TO PDF / PRINT AND OPEN TO CHROMIUM
> nmap :ha > newfile.ps :! ps2pdf newfile.ps:! rm
> newfile.ps
> nmap :ha > newfile.ps :! ps2pdf newfile.ps:!
> rm newfile.ps && chromium newfile.pdf
[snip]
> The only problem is that I have to rename
On 2018-02-02 10:45, Bernard Fay wrote:
> I have a file with a bunch of lines like the following one:
>
> AAE ..Above Aerodrome
> Elevation
>
> I would like to replace the dots by a single tab.
>
> I tried the following substitutions but it does not work.
> nnoremap s :%s/\<\(\)\>//g
>
> I was thinking that I would set the cursor where I need to insert
> the new word, as in "get#Something" where # represents the cursor
> and then I'd need to replace it like so:
> s/\<\(left-of-cursor)\zs\ze(right-of-cursor)\>/whatever/g
You might try something lik
On 2018-02-15 17:16, 'Grant Taylor' via vim_use wrote:
> Is there a way to change only the second (or any specific) instance
> of a pattern on a line?
>
> Sort of like how 's/old/new/' changes the first instance of "old"
> to "new", but for the second (or any specific) instance.
The easiest way o
On 2018-02-18 13:05, Renato Fabbri wrote:
> :normal :ls
> does not leave the user with the cursor at the command-line, e.g.
> in: :ls
>
> Is there a way to write a function or is there a command I might
> use to leave the user with a given string in the command-line?
A mapping can leave you at th
On 2018-02-22 04:25, David Woodfall wrote:
> If I visually highlight part of a line and do a substitution
> using /g it replaces every occurrence in the line, even outside the
> visual range.
>
> Is there a way around this?
You want the "\%V" atom:
:help /\%V
so you'd search for
/\%Vpatter
I've got a rather large source file for an ETL process containing
several functions (one for each of the files it processes). There's
enough similarity between the file processing that it's easy to do a
search and end up in the wrong function without noticing.
Knowing vim supported matching/color
On 2018-03-03 01:55, Renato Fabbri wrote:
> Vim is a text editor, ok, and in the Unix design of a programming
> environment, what other tools do you use and how.
I usually use tmux (and before that GNU screen) to wrap my whole
session. Inside that I have
- vim open to edit my code
- usually a s
On 2018-03-03 08:22, Renato Fabbri wrote:
> The major drawback I found is that vim session do no recover the
> terminal windows/buffers
It depends on how you open your terminal windows. If you just use
:terminal
then if you use ":mksession", vim will only remember that you have a
termina
On 2018-03-23 14:03, Robert Bower wrote:
> I am a occasional Vim user. It is my default rescue editor and I
> use it for a few tasks but not many. I would like to use it for
> more because it is so customizable. What holds me back is I am a
> one handed left handed touch typist. I only have use
On 2018-03-29 08:51, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> I have a textfile with lot of lines.
> These lines have the following format
>
> a-
> b-
[snip]
> I want to check, whether all paired lines have attached
> the same value.
You can find them with
/^command a-\(\w\+\) \+\(\d\+\) *\ncommand b-\1 \+
On 2018-03-29 06:21, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I want to check, whether all paired lines have attached
> > the same value.
>
> You can find them with
>
> /^command a-\(\w\+\) \+\(\d\+\) *\ncommand b-\1 \+\2\@!
I suppose I should have offered both alternatives...finding
On 2018-03-29 20:34, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> On 03/29 06:55, Tim Chase wrote:
> > On 2018-03-29 06:21, Tim Chase wrote:
> > > > I want to check, whether all paired lines have attached
> > > > the same value.
> > >
> > > /
To reproduce:
$ vim -u NONE
:syntax on
:set spell cpo+=J
to let vim know I always put two spaces after a sentence. However,
if I enter text like
Call Bob re. the faucet.
or
Take Main St. the whole way down.
vim's syntax highlighting flags "the" in SpellCap as if it's
expecting the
On 2018-04-16 18:05, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > To reproduce:
> >
> > $ vim -u NONE
> > :syntax on
> > :set spell cpo+=J
> >
> > to let vim know I always put two spaces after a sentence.
> > However, if I enter t
On 2018-05-21 13:32, sampe...@tiscali.it wrote:
> I tried to select rows by ctrl-v but with ‘>’ key text is indented
> to different space vs tabstop. E.g. my tabstop is set to default as
> 4 value and > indent rows to 8 spaces. how can I tune it?
You'll want to check your 'shiftwidth', 'softtabsto
On 2018-05-11 10:52, sampe...@tiscali.it wrote:
>> One way is to select the lines of code that you need indenting
>> with shift+v and scrolling down, then press >
>
> Do you know if it works for every VIM environment? I don't usually
> install GUI in Linux server.
It works in both console & GUI ve
On 2018-05-28 18:11, M Kelly wrote:
> Is there a variable for how many diffs are present after starting
> vimdiff ? I'd like to exit immediately with status of 0 if there
> are no differences between the files I pass into vimdiff.
Not that I know of off the top of my head (though if there is, I'd
On 2018-06-28 18:30, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Does a means or plugin exist to perform a diff between two
> tabs/files that compares entire lines?
I've occasionally hacked this by inserting a unique tag (usually just
an incrementing number) after each line in the file, something like
:windo g/^
On 2018-07-18 12:23, Bill Tugger wrote:
> I often have to make small edits in several files. I need to
> display each file as I make the changes so automated tools don't
> work.
You're asking for automating something you say can't be automated.
If the actions *are* repeatable, you can record a m
On 2018-07-19 08:17, Bee wrote:
> I would like this function to be written as an expression.
>
> function! SpellReplaceAll()
> if &spell
> try | spellr
> catch
> endtry
> endif
> endfun
> nmap :call SpellReplaceAll()
>
> How to make it work as an expression?
>
> The following do
On 2018-07-19 10:08, Bee wrote:
> When to use ' or " ?
In some contexts (that I don't have memorized) a double-quote is
treated as the start of a comment.
:help :quote
Also, double-quote strings can get special sequences replaced in them
while single-quote strings don't:
:help expr-quote
On 2018-07-31 19:20, 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use wrote:
> Why is the old vi being executed even though `which vi` shows the
> newer one? And how to get vi to execute the newly installed vim?
Have you checked for an alias? Possibly something like
$ alias vi
alias vi='/usr/bin/vi'
Also,
On 2018-08-06 07:58, ruben.sa...@my.liu.edu wrote:
> Why is it that X11 cut and paste has been broken for a couple of
> years now and that it is not being fixed. It worked fine for 30
> years.
To begin with, mouse works perfectly fine in vim and is configurable
for how exactly it does work. You'
On 2018-08-06 14:47, John Little wrote:
> So, for text to be rendered properly in a variable width font one
> space is best, but with a monospace font, aka a typewriter font,
> such as vim uses, some of us cling to two spaces.
I still use two spaces in my source material particularly because I
can
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