vim (Vi IMproved) is a text editor supporting different editing modes.
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urxvt, vim and X clipboard [duplicate]
I would like to setup my rxvt-unicode with the following behavior
Be able to paste primary clipboard with the keyboard (whatever combination is normally used)
Copy selected text to primary clipboard ...
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zsh fails at path completition when command is vim
When I try to autocomplete files (with vim as argument 0):
vim ~/.conf <TAB>
It shows:
_arguments:450: _vim_files: function definition file not found
_arguments:450: _vim_files: function ...
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why does cygwin and putty write a tilde on its own? [closed]
I would like to know how can I stop cygwin and putty writing a tilde on its own. When I use vim with these programs on windows 7 I get this annoying tilde written.
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In Vim , how can I copy from several lines? (not a range);
Assume I have
1 - funct1
2- funct 2
3 - funct 3
4 line 4
how can I copy line 1 and 3 (not a range of lines) and paste them, for example at line 8? If I do this in way with | arg like ( 1y|3y), I ...
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sed regular expression behaving differently than in vim and perl?
Here's a sample 'test.txt'
abcdX1yad45das
abcdX2fad45das
abcdX3had45das
abcdX4wad45das
abcdX5mad45das
sample desired output:
X1yad
X2fad
X3had
X4wad
X5mad
I could get it working in vim with:
:% ...
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Why vim is pasting 50 lines instead of 96?
I had a file of 96 lines
i selected all lines and paste with
vim in new file but..paste only first
50 lines.
What to check?
I see this only on newest version of vim
on slackware-current,the old 14.1 ...
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How do I prevent vim from automatically editing my input?
Sometimes I copy/paste from one .cpp to another in vim, and vim, confident that it knows what I want to do better than me, edits my entry. For example, if I copy/paste this:
// A comment.
Some(code);
...
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Vim saved file not updating on webpage
I am attempting to update an HTML file on my server, but when I do so it doesn't appear to be updating, but rather, serves an old copy instead. I went through the usual process of pressing :w and ...
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Different vim colors and styles in Tmux and Gnome
I am using tmux, and recently found out that the same vim colorshemes inside and outside of tmux have different colors
Left is tmux in gnome-terminal, right is plain gnome-terminal, gnome-terminal ...
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Using accents in Vim seamlessly
Very often I need to write text/program in foreign languages that need accents and special characters in vim, but sometimes it is very hard to get that working.
What are the best alternatives to ...
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How to Execute !gvim current line in Viewer?
Code find-xargs(less)-gvim
%http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/277889/16920
find . -name "*.tex" -exec grep -il "agent" {} + | less -s -M +Gg
Output
./InfectiousDiseases/1.4.2016.tex
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Send-keys across tmux panes in vim in Cygwin is painfully slow
I am using vimux or vim-tbone to send code to an interpreter in another pane. It works fine with any shell, but I can't get it to work properly in windows. I can't have a VM, so I use cygwin at work ...
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What is the historical origin of CTRL + P for up and CTRL + N for down?
I am a moderately experienced vim user, who is now beginning to use GNU emacs. At about the same time as I learned that Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n are the default for up and down in emacs, I also learned they ...
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Open multiple files from ranger in vim
When I highlight multiple files in ranger from the same dir, I can open them all in vim with r and than 0 or @ and than add vim. But if I highlight files from different dirs, than this doesn't work. ...
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ack executed through vim
I am trying to execute ack from vim. But for some reason vim decides to stop after executing ack. How can I stop vim from stopping?
(on some systems what I call ack is called ack-grep)
What I am ...
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How do I add a vim configuration to a user who is restricted to a specific directory?
So basically, I have created a user that only has access to a specific folder with:
useradd --home /some/dir username
Now what I would like to do is add my vim configuration to this user's "home" ...
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problem editing utf8 text file with vim
I have a problem editing a html file on a server via vim. The file is utf-8 encoded.
While editing with vim (v7.3, no plugins active) I can see umlauts and editing and saving a line before the umlaut ...
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vim + tmux: some shortcuts broken?
When I am using vim inside of tmux, some of my shortcuts are broken.
E.g. I have bound Ctrl + up/down and Shift + up/down in my .vimrc and when I'm running vim inside of tmux these shortcuts do not ...
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vim: map capital 'Y' in .vimrc does not work
If I try to map capital 'Y' in my vimrc, this is getting ignored. For example, if I put something like
nmap Y :w<CR>
in my vimrc, this has no effect. However if I run vim and I enter
:nmap Y ...
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shell commands with quotation marks in ranger
I like to open the highlighted file in ranger in split of remote vim session.
:shell vim --remote-send "<C-\><C-n>:vsp %d/%f<CR>"
Rather than file ...
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Execute a command in zsh vim mode
In zsh in vim mode, I write something
foo foo bar bar
Then I hit Esc to go in normal mode and type :
foo foo bar bar
execute: _
Then, I assume I can do that, I want to search and replace bar ...
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In vi/vim, how do I append to a file instead of overwriting it?
I know I can write to a file by simply doing :w <file>. I would like to know though how can I write to a file by appending to it instead of overwriting it.
Example use case: I want to take some ...
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Copy path from vim netrw
I use vim's netrw to explore some files. How can I copy the absolute path of the currently selected directory in netrw to a register and use it to paste into another buffer?
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Two different versions of VIM
When I install just about any distribution of linux it's accompanied with an unorthodox version of vi. I most recently dealt with this on Ubuntu 14.04. I can vi a file but a number of the "hot" keys ...
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vi replacing characters on file opening
Whenever I open an existing file with vim, the first non-blank character in one of the lines gets replaced with a g.
I am a beginner with vim and I might have entered a command by mistake (since I ...
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OpenLayers autocompletion with Tern
I use Tern with Vim and a plugin called YouCompleteMe. I develop principally with two JavaScript libraries: jQuery and OpenLayers. The first one is already supported by Tern. OpenLayers is not.
In ...
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Vim not loading color scheme file at all
I have exactly same two CentOS 6 boxes. Trying to install vim and enable color scheme file.
Same thing, same vim versions used but the color scheme works in one machine and not in other.
Here are ...
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sequentially number a line of linked images with vim or other?
I have over 400 lines of html containing this code for images:
<a class='gallery' href="galimages/boards/board34.jpg" alt="board large"><image src ="galimages/boards/thumbs/34.jpg" ...
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vim: Force specific syntax via command-line argument
When I want to easily read my PostgreSQL schema, I dump it to stderr and redirect it to vim:
pg_dump -h localhost -U postgres dog_food --schema-only | vim -
This gives:
vim does not have a ...
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Vim minimize current window and make remaining of equal size
I'm trying to get a mix of CTRL-W1| and CTRL-W=. I want to keep only 2 windows and make them of equal size so that they take all available space.
I'm using vertical tabs all the time, but I guess ...
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How can my text file get filled with ^M characters all of a sudden?
I have a text file on a Mac machine, and I've only ever used vi/vim to edit it. Today when I opened it using vi I noticed a bunch of ^M characters everywhere. The only thing I did different today was ...
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Vim color scheme not always working
I have changed my color scheme in vim by adding this line to .vimrc:
colorscheme desert
When I open .vimrc or .profile the text is colored, but when I do for example vim test.txt the text I enter is ...
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Vim writes to file without having permissions [duplicate]
$ ls sess.vim -lh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11K Feb 26 18:52 sess.vim
I want this file to be readable for everyone and writable by no one (except by root). Thus I set its permissions to ...
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disable cursor color in putty client ssh terminal when in vi
I use putty.exe in windows 7 to connect to my Linux system.
I use vi. I would like the cursor in vi to remain white all the time, and not change to green or blue around my if statement { } brackets ...
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Setting Terminal tab names in OS X and using vim
I regularly ssh into a Linux cluster from an OS X (El Capitan) Terminal, sometimes with multiple Terminal tabs. I use bash and vim.
I'd like to do the following:
while ssh'd, set the Terminal tab ...
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Gnome Terminal error with VT100 cursor movement codes
I've got an ansi escape issue with Gnome Terminal. What could be causing and how do I fix an issue like this? Since I cannot describe the issue very well I have a screenshot to show it off. When I ...
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Display replacement characters for no-break space in Vim
I'd want to display non standard spaces in Vim so that I could distinguish No-Break space (U+00A0) from Narrow No-Break space (U+202F) by using for example replacement Unicode characters like ␣ ...
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How to define a shell variable as equal to the version of Vim presently installed?
I am intending to write a shell script (if specifics are required, it will be executed in Zsh) that will determine the latest Vim patch via running:
git pull origin master
vernew=$(git describe ...
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Inspecting vi .swp file to preview recovery
Feel free to close this as a dupe if you can find a question that deals with this case.
This is NOT about HOW to recover a .swp file in vi.
I'm not sure if I want to recover. I want to preview what ...
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Vim color scheme not being applied
I'm trying to use this color scheme:
https://github.com/Konstruktionist/vim/blob/master/colors/Kafka.vim
Here is my ~/.vim/colors:
xxx@xxx:~/.vim/colors$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xxx xxx 15245 ...
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Getting Alt to Work in the Terminal with Tmux and Vim
I'm trying to make Alt + h/j/k/l switch tmux panes and vim windows. Yet for some reason my terminal (xfce4-terminal) and and Alt do not play nicely with each other. I got Alt + h/j/k/l to switch ...
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Global vim-like (hjkl) navigation with numlock & xmodmap?
I'd like to be able mimic vim's hjkl navigation everywhere in the system by utilizing num lock (or scroll lock), and making hjkl keys act as arrows whenever num lock is on, and regular behavior ...
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Vim: if specific version, then don't load plugin
I wonder what the best way is to decide whether or not some plugin should be loaded depending on some specific compilation/version of Vim. Any help would be appreciated.
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Differences between Vim and Evil Mode Emacs
I normally use emacs on my system however all of the computers at my university have vim installed which I normally ignored (I know basic vim but I'm not very efficient) and used gedit when I needed ...
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vim find and replace around a string
In VIM, if, for example, I have the text
http://a.com
http://b.com
is it possible to find all lines (the whole line) and replace it with something before and after it, such as:
<a ...
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Vim Open file in multi split modes
I want to open 3 files in multiple split mode. For example let's say I have 3 files file1 file2 file3
I want to open file1 & file2 in vertical split mode , and both of the vertical split must be ...
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Vim Powerline is only working when 2 buffers are open
I'm having some trouble with the Vim Powerline plugin. I've installed it but it is only working when I have two buffers open. Below are pictures describing the issue visually as well as my .vimrc. ...
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Why does piping filenames into VIM break bash when I return to the shell?
I searched for a few files with find and I wanted to open all of them in tabs in Vim. So I tried this:
find . | xargs fgrep -l myExpression | xargs vim -p
This worked great, except when I was done ...
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What is this view in vim?
What is this view in vim called, and what is it for?
Somehow when I type colon to enter a command in vim I accidentally bring up a view that looks like this. But I can't get it to happen ...
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Create a macro for vim paste management
I would like to create a macro that does:
set paste
<paste>
set nopaste
This will save me from <paste> (Oh, forgot I again!) Delete. Execute the above. Over and over. :-)
But I can't ...
