I'd like to write a function in vimscript that finds the last open parenthese or bracket in a line. This isn't necessarily an easy problem, because it needs to be able to handle all of the following: function(abc function(abc, [def function(abc, [def], "string(" function(abc, [def], "string(", ghi( As you can see, nested parenthesis, ...
One of my problems when creating a portable .vimrc is with locales. Let's say I always want to use English language for messages. Depending on OS and Vim version, the command needed may be lang messages en, lang messages en_US, lang messages English_US, etc. Now, I can do this: try lang messages en catch try lang messages en_US ...
In some files I can see a commented line, usually the last, with vim settings. Does vim read these settings? If it does, are any limitations of what kind of settings man can put there? ...
I find I waste a lot of time closing and reopening sets of files so I'd like to improve my VIM macro for loading and saving the session to support multiple sessions. I'd like for it to prompt for a string value, so that I could press my shortcut, then type in for example "foo", and have my macro save the session to .foo (so I also need ...
When I have several windows open in VIM, I'd like to always skip one of them (the one containing my project using Aric Blumer's Project plugin), whenever I press Ctrl-W_W. In other words I'd like to cycle through my document windows as if the Project window wasn't one of them. When I actually do want to go into the project window, I'll ...
In vim, I use Ctrl-n to word complete while in insert mode. If there is more than one possible match, I get a dropdown from which I can select one of the possible matches using the arrow keys. However, I don't want to use the arrow keys; I want to use the 'j' and 'k' keys. But when I type 'j' or 'k', it inserts the letters instead of go...