The mark " in Vim takes you to your last cursor position. I want to create an alias that will open my Vim instance and jump to that mark; something which is obviously extremely useful. This works from the command line: $ vim -c "'\"" File.cpp Now I want to make an alias for this: $ alias v='vim -c "'\""' Well that's not goin...
Hello: I have installed vim-latex package using my ubuntu's synaptic package manager. I followed the instructions here to edit my .vimrc file. However, when I open up a .tex file in vim, nonw of the new menu options appear and I can't seem to compile documents using \ll. What did I do wrong? ...
Hello. Is there any way to search a string in a C/C++ source file while skipping commented lines? ...
This question already addresses how to remove duplicate lines, but enforces that the list is sorted first. I would like to perform the remove contiguous duplicate lines step (i.e. uniq) without first sorting them. Example before: Foo Foo Bar Bar Example after: Foo Bar ...
I have a samba server on my embedded box. I was planning to use it to edit files easily. However when I open files on my windows machine, I get read errors. I have tried textpad, gvim and kate(andLinux). On gvim I first get "write error in swap file" and it is replaced by "[READ ERRORS]". If I access the same file through pyNeighborhoo...
Hello. I like to use the split window feature in Vim. However I cannot seem to drag drop new files into the different sections. Doing so will just open a new tab. I don't like using tabs as I still need to flick between them and not much different to using separate windows. Is there anyway I can change this behaviour? It works fine o...
Similar in appearance to Vim as a note taking platform (SO), I would like a pane with a list of open buffers that can be used as a jump to list. This is one feature in many IDEs and other advanced editors that is missing. Having a dozen buffers or so open becomes confusing as to which buffer is where. ...
In my .gvimrc I have following lines: set listchars=tab:\.\ ,trail:- set softtabstop=2 set shiftwidth=2 set tabstop=2 set expandtab When I change last line to set noexpandtab the indents can be seen and marked with . Is there a way to make vim treat expanded tabs like "normal" tab so that list option works as expected? ...
I'm running portable python and portable gvim. When I run gVimPortable, I want it to append python to the PATH environment variable. This is the command I would run in a command prompt: path=%path%;C:\portable\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4 Is there a way to automate this in the vimrc file or some other way? ...
I use gvim pretty heavily at work, typically logged into a server farm. This works great while I'm directly on the corporate LAN, but when I VPN in from home and resume my sessions, gvim scrolls almost intolerably slow. Every time I page up or down, the scrolling does a lot of unnecessary screen refreshes before it gets to the final ...
I was an Eclipse user, now I have to use Vim in my machine. I used to "compare" a file I edited with a CVS repository to do merges an commit the files, using a context menu and my mouse. Is this possible in Vim? Opening a vimdiff for a file before commiting, and commit it from vim itself? And how is that supposed to work? I'm supposi...
I'm trying to use the Search command in Vim: :Rs/F/T/X R = range F = text to find T = text to replace with X = options But, when I want to search for the "." (dot character) I'm getting some problems. The task: Replace all occurences of " ." (space dot) for ">" (greater-than) So, first I tried this: :%s/ ./>/g But this changed m...
I just installed macvim yesterday and I installed vim latex today. One of the menu items is calling a broken fuction (TeX-Suite -> view). When I click on the menu-time it makes this call: :silent! call Tex_ViewLatex() Question: Where can I find that function? Is there some way to figure out where it is defined? Just for cu...
In Notepad++ when you work with HTML, when you move the cursor onto a tag it automatically highlights that tag and its opening/closing corresponding tag. That is really useful when you have lots of div inside each other. How do you turn this on in gVim? ...
I've got a string: doCall(valA, val.valB); Using a regex in GVIM I would like to change this to: valA = doCall(valA, val.valB); How would I go about doing this? I use %s for basic regex search and replace in GVIM, but this a bit different from my normal usages. Thanks ...
This is an annoyance I've had for a long time. (Nitpicky section: I prefer 4 space characters to tab characters. It's a lot easier to type "tab" instead of explaining that. When I say "tab", I mean "the action that happens when you press the tab key" which is probably more simply stated as "increase indentation".) I'm using smartinde...
In vim, you can create a fold with zf, so if is %, you can neatly fold a delimited block. is there a way to select some text in visual mode and automatically fold that? I've noticed that if I select a closed fold and use dd to delete it, then go somewhere else and use P to paste it, the fold will disappear and the fold will be expande...
Hi, I am trying to use the Omni complete feature with gVim 7.2 but on windows I keep getting an error that says Error: require vim compiled with +python E117: unknown function: pythoncomplete#complete seems like it might be because gvim 7.2 is compiled with 2.4 and I have 2.5 installed. I have downloaded the 2.5 compiled binaries from...
I want to save a list of open files (:ls), quit gvim, start gvim, reopen all previously opened files. I don't want to use :mksession because it doesn't work correctly (probably due to some of the plugins I'm using) ...
Hi, I get the following error when I try to start gvim on Solaris 10: -bash-3.00$ gvim E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found Press ENTER or type command to continue Has anyone seen this error? Just thought someone might know of a workaround /j ...