How to fill a line with character x up to column y using Vim
You can do 80Ax<Esc>d80| for a simpler solution.
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Replacing quote marks around strings in Vim?
There’s also surround.vim, if you’re looking to do this fairly often. You’d use cs'” to change surrounding quotes.
How can I emulate Vim’s * search in GNU Emacs?
Based on your feedback to my first answer, how about this: (defun my-isearch-word-at-point () (interactive) (call-interactively ‘isearch-forward-regexp)) (defun my-isearch-yank-word-hook () (when (equal this-command ‘my-isearch-word-at-point) (let ((string (concat “\\<” (buffer-substring-no-properties (progn (skip-syntax-backward “w_”) (point)) (progn (skip-syntax-forward “w_”) (point))) “\\>”))) (if (and isearch-case-fold-search (eq ‘not-yanks search-upper-case)) (setq string (downcase string))) (setq isearch-string string isearch-message (concat isearch-message (mapconcat … Read more
How to jump to the next tag in vim help file
Use the :tn and :tp sequences to navigate between tags. If you want to look for the next tag on the same help page, try this search: /|.\{-}| This means to search for: The character | Any characters up to the next |, matching as few as possible (that’s what \{-} does). Another character | … Read more
Vim cursor jumps to beginning of the line after buffer switch
You can use the setting :se nostartofline or short: :se nosol Documentation: *’startofline’* *’sol’* *’nostartofline’* *’nosol’* ‘startofline’ ‘sol’ boolean (default on)` global {not in Vi} When “on” the commands listed below move the cursor to the first non-blank of the line. When off the cursor is kept in the same column (if possible). This applies … Read more
How do I unset a variable in Vim?
I found the Vim documentation for vimscript, which has a section on variables: To delete a variable use the “:unlet” command. Example: :unlet s:count
Select progressively “inner” and/or “outer” code blocks in vim
Just repeat the object selection keys. For your examples this would be va}a} or vi]i]. I don’t think that there is a way to then reduce the selection back to an inner block. Other than to use Esc to clear the selection, “ to jump back to your starting poing and then redo the initial … Read more
Why does vi behave differently in Ubuntu than in CentOS?
In ubuntu, the default vim install comes from the package vim-tiny, which isn’t the whole thing. You probably want to: apt-get install vim or apt-get install vim-full Some of your other problems sound like issues with the backspace key and other things. Once you get the full version of vim, try adding these to your … Read more
Vim moving cursor to the beginning of the next line
The + motion moves to the first non-blank character in the next ([count]) line. That fulfills your requirement if there’s no indent. With indent, you can use +0 or j0.
Override colorscheme
You asked what I’m looking for today. I found a simpler solution than those presented here. I want transparent background instead of the black background from the theme, while simply overriding the color after the colorscheme statement in .vimrc doesn’t work and installing a plugin just for that is weird. Here is what I did: … Read more