Syntastic uses the location list (a window-local variant of the quickfix list), so a :lclose will close it, but keep the other buffers. As per syntastic’s help pages, the initial height can be configured: :let g:syntastic_loc_list_height=5 But I suspect that your intrusive Janus distribution has a hand in that. Vim “distributions” like spf-13 and Janus … Read more
You can easily record a macro to do it. First insert 1. at the start of the first line (there are a couple of spaces after the 1. but you can’t see them). Go to the start of the second line and go into record mode with qa. Press the following key sequence: i # … Read more
Your version of Vim doesn’t support X, which is required for clipboard access. By default, Ubuntu ships several builds of vim and only the GUI variant supports clipboard access. I always recompile vim from source so that a single vim (with symlinks for gvim etc) supports everything required (including :gui to switch from command line … Read more
From the manual, you’re really just wanting: set laststatus=2 set statusline=%f “tail of the filename As an aside: if you’re wanting a status line with a ton more information be sure to check out this link. It’ll give you something a bit more fancier like so:-
Why not setup something like these? nnoremap <C-h> <C-w>h nnoremap <C-j> <C-w>j nnoremap <C-k> <C-w>k nnoremap <C-l> <C-w>l Much quicker …
Since Vim comes shipped with matchit plugin, all I needed to do was activate it: vim ~/.vimrc Then add the following into your .vimrc: set nocompatible filetype plugin on runtime macros/matchit.vim
Early software was often modal, but usability took a turn at some point, away from this style. VI-based editors are total enigmas — they’re the only real surviving members of that order of software. Modes are a no-no in usability and interaction design because we humans are fickle mammals who cannot be trusted to remember … Read more
In normal mode, use the pipe character: 25| will move you to column 25 on the same line
Test to see whether syntax highlighting is enabled in Vim. If you type :syntax on and the problem goes away then that’s your issue, and you can correct it by adding: syntax on to your $MYVIMRC file (usually at ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/vimrc; find out exactly with :echo $MYVIMRC in Vim).
I made .ideavimrc that contains bindings for all conflicted mappings. Maybe it’ll be usefull to someone. imap jj <Esc> let mapleader = ” ” map <leader>a :action $SelectAll<CR> map <leader>b :action GotoDeclaration<CR> map <leader>c :action $Copy<CR> map <leader>d :action EditorDuplicate<CR> map <leader>e :action RecentFiles<CR> map <leader>f :action Find<CR> map <leader>g :action GotoLine<CR> map <leader>h :action … Read more