I want to comment several lines in my .vimrc, the usual way I do it is :x,ys/^/"/ and x stands for the start line number and y stands for the line number of the last line. I read some post which said in visual mode this task can be done by the following step: 1 Select your lines with VISUAL BLOCK 2 press I to insert before all highlig...
I have downloaded several new plugins which come with a help file. None of them seem to work from within Vim. I have the Windows version of gVim and the install dir contains a folder called: vimfiles vim72 Both folder contain a plugin and doc folder. Where am I supposed to put the plugin? So when I use :help [helpfile], it says it ...
Hi I'm working in gvim with sessions and tabs, and everything works great. However there is something that is bothering me. Say I have two files open: /A/B/foo.ext and /C/D/E/bar.ext, the latter being opened last. Now say I want to open /A/B/foobar.ext. I have to go through the hassle of navigating upwards to / and from there to /A/B. ...
I often jump from a file to file, while working a large codebase. I typically do this by way of putting cursor on the file, say foo.h, and typing "gf". I wonder if I can do the same thing, yet open the file in a split window. One obvious solution is to simply type: vsp (sp) filename. ...
In a one line Vim ex command: I am trying to do a command and then move to another location and execute the same command. is there any way to move the cursor position (need both left/right and up/down)? ...
The problem i am facing is that i have mapped some keys and mouse events for seraching in vim while editing a file. But those mappings impact the functionality if the quickfix buffer. I was wondering if it is possible to map keys depending on the buffer in which they are used. EDIT - I am adding more info for this question Let us cons...
When executing :make from vim, after make is complete it automatically jumps to a file with errors. Is there a way to avoid this EDIT This is usecase i want to achieve I want :make to execute then quicklist to open but the current file which i am working on should not be switched to the one with errors with default settings after :mak...
My entire source code base is < 20MB. I want it all loaded in memory in the background. So that when I do vimgrep */.cpp */.cxx */.hpp , it doesn't ahve to do file IO since vim has loaded all the files into memory already. How can I achieve this? Thakns! ...
I am trying to figure out how I can define an autocmd that influences all files under a specific path. The autocmd I have tried is something like autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead /specificPath/** imap <buffer> .... Now, I'd expect this autocmd to be used if I edited, say, /foo/bar/specificPath/baz/something/bla.txt, but not if I edited /fo...
I am trying to define a mapping for Ctrl+. as follows: map <C-.> :bn<CR> This does not work. Typing Ctrl+. just results in repeating the last action just as you would get when typing .. Note that I do not want to change the behaviour of .. Any idea how to get this to work? ...
I often find myself wanting to change just something little in a colorscheme, but i don't want to edit the original file. I tried putting my change in '~/.vim/after/colors/blah.vim', but that doesn't work for me. Example, I want to change the CursorLine highlight in BusyBee.vim.. ~/.vim/colors/BusyBee.vim I create the file '~/.vim/a...
If I ran a search pattern and nothing was found, is there a shortcut to bring it back for me to edit? ...
Content: 1. Text is here. 20. More text. Why does this Vim search and replace string fail? :%s/^\d+\.\s+/# /g ...
I've been using Vim for quite a long time, but I'm at a level where I use insert mode most of the time, and I still use the arrow keys to move around(!). I feel like I'm not getting the best out of my lovely editor, particularly regarding navigating (especially code), copy & pasting, and doing other manipulations of existing code. (thou...
There's a command in VIM where you can say how many chars to replace, and VIM will put a "$" at that many characters out, and you can type in the replacement for those characters. The original and new text can be different lengths. What's the command for this? ...
I am trying to use vim properly - to aid me I've mapped my arrow keys to "" so that I am forced to use {hjlk} to move around. This is causing me a problem when I want to just surround a character with spaces, eg: "2+3" is better formatted "2 + 3" Previously I would have put my cursor over the + and typed: i[space][arrow-right][s...
:bn , :bp just switches buffers I want something like ctrl-o, which has a 'stack' of marks it jumps through. However, I want it to ignore marks in the same file ... i.e i want ctrl-my-o to be ctrl-o until you hit a different file and ctrl-my-i to be ctrl-i until you hit a different file Is there somethig like this in vim? ...
For writable buffers, is there a way to tell vim to autoindent a file on entering & exiting the buffer? What I want is the equiv of: 1G=G to go first line indent .. until last line Thanks! ...
so 1GvG:s/..../g can replace over an entire buffer However, suppose I have multiple vim buffers loaded, and I want to do a :s over all the buffers that are writable; is there a way to do this in vim? ...
I'm looking for a VIM plugin that can do these kind of thing. Let's say I have a function in a .cpp file void myFunction(int arg1, int arg2, int arg3){ //code } The function definition is defined in the .h file. So every time I change the function name or add a new argument to the function, I have to go back the the .h file to do ...