Any idea on how to delete all the spaces and tabs at the end of all my lines in my code using vim? I sometimes use commands to add things at the end of my lines, but sometimes, because of these unexpected blanks (that is, I put these blanks there inadvertently while coding), which serve no purpose whatsoever, these commands don't do the ...
In our C++ code base we keep 99 column lines but 79-some-odd column multiline comments. Is there a good strategy to do this automagically? I assume the modes are already known because of smart comment line-joining and leading * insertion. ...
In TextMate there is this awesome option to "Format CSS" and "Format CSS Compressed". This option doesn't seem to exist in vim. Perhaps it's in a plugin I'm not aware of? Or maybe I need to integrate CSS Tidy somehow? ...
I'm trying to write some matching rules in a Vim syntax file to highlight indented bullets. My problem is that the syntax highlighting uses a background color, so I would like to match only the bullet character and not the preceding whitespace. How can I say "match \d., +, -, and * only if preceded by ^\s\{0,1} (but do not match the wh...
Hi, When using nerd commenter in visual mode, the first line is commented differently. Initial code const IMG_SIZE_SMALL = '32x32'; const IMG_SIZE_MEDIUM = '64x64'; const IMG_SIZE_LARGE = '192x192'; After doing ,cc in visual mode selecting these lines. /* const IMG_SIZE_SMALL = '32x32';*/ //const IMG_SIZE_MEDIUM = '64x6...
Hi, I'm trying to make Vim run the command 'CommandTFlush' whenever a new file is writte. For those not using the Command-T plugin, the 'CommandTFlush' command is used to rebuild an index of files in the current directory. What I want to do is run the command after the file is written to disk, so that CommandTFlush will find the file ...
For example if I have some code like: foo = bar("abc", "def", true, callback); Is there a nice command to move true to the 1st or 2nd position leaving the commas intact? P.S as a bonus my friend want to know if this works in Emacs too. ...
I'd like to have GNU Source-highlight [ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/ ] use the same colorings as my vim setup [ http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html ]. I'm using a recent Ubuntu and not done any customization over the default installs of vim of source-highlight other than to enable highlighting in vim. ...
How do I change the vimrc to have the comments in my code italicized? in my vimrc file i have: highlight Comment ctermfg=blue that makes the comment blue. ...
I have a ~/.vimrc file that vim doesn't seem to be reading. There is a file at /etc/vimrc, and it looks like it is using that one. My understanding is that the one in the home directory should override this one, shouldn't it? Update cat vim_strace | grep .vimrc stat64("/etc/vimrc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1438, ...}) = 0 ...
I connect to my linux box via putty. I've been able to modify the color scheme via my vimrc file, but how can I change the console font? I see an option for guifont but I am not using a GUI... ...
I'm wondering how to get ctags working with interfaces in Fortran, eg: INTERFACE SOME_ROUTINE MODULE SOME_ROUTINE_A MODULE SOME_ROUTINE_B END SOME_ROUTINE So that either SOME_ROUTINE_A or SOME_ROUTINE_B is called depending on the parameters passed to the subroutine. If I've got my cursor over a call to SOME_ROUTINE in Vim, and hi...
This post is a two-parter. I'm trying to sort a set of ip statements that look like: ifconfig em0 alias 172.16.80.1/28 ifconfig em0 alias 172.16.180.1/32 ... ifconfig em0 alias 172.16.1.1/32 by ip. Is it possible to return a range by using a regular expression? The following returns an error %/172.*/sort n and this doesn't (app...
I had found a .vimrc configuration that allowed me to simply type :e <<characters_in_filename>> and then tab and the path would expand out to :e full_path or show me a list of options if there are similarly named files in my current path. Anyone know how to make this happen? note: I'm away of FuzzyFileFinder, Peepopen, and Command...
Hello. When I useVIMthe syntax highlighting works, except after I return to a buffer using:bdthe highlighting disappears. I can enable it again using:syn on.This problem occurs only for files without an extension. I remember I had to change some settings to get files without an extension to be highlighted in the first place, but I can't...
I have a windows directory (U:\S) that contains files that must not be changed. Their read-only bit cannot be set, so they must remain writeable. As I have to look into some of the file's content rather regurarly with VIM, I want to make sure that I don't accidentally change the file's conent. So, I put the following line into my .vim...
I'm making a shortcut that places a # at the front of each line, in the next x lines. x is a number I type before entering the shortcut, like typing 11dd deletes the next eleven lines. The command is .,+10 s/^/#/g. Here the number ten should really be whatever was typed before the shortcut. How do I make the shortcut change according to...
There is a vim function Send_to_Screen(text) which sends some text to a console screen session. I have a mapping vmap <F4> "ry :call Send_to_Screen(@r)<CR> which calls the function with the current selection. Now I want do define another mapping which calls the function with the contents of the whole buffer, but I don't get it to work...
I have a text which is made of lines and some of them look like that: A test1 test test test test A test2 test test test test The line starts with A (arbitrary but unique string) and ends with an empty line. I like to remove all redundant newline symbols from the real lines (without affecting other lines, not matc...
How to remap <Ctrl-Home> to go to first line in file? I tried the following command, but it doesn't work (environment is xterm in KDE). Vim recognises the Home key and goes to beginning of line, but looks like it doesn't recognized <Ctrl-Home> combo. noremap <Ctrl-Home> gg ...