Hello Vim users,
at the suggestion of a Reddit user, I am 'crossposting' a question I
posted on the Vim Reddit[1].
[1]
http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9dd7i/hey_rvim_please_suggest_a_task_for_a_college/
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I'm helping out with writing a task/tutorial-based lab for a freshman
college class
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:52:00 -0700 (PDT)
drlatex wrote:
> So my question is, why does vim not have the \n at the end after
> pressing %j! , while matlab and notepad seem to thing there IS a \n
> at the end ?? And is there a way to modify the files with vim so that
> matlab and notepad don't add
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
drlatex wrote:
>
>
> Hello there vimmers,
>
> I was wondering if I could remove everything in a file up to AND
> including a certain word within the file.
>
> Let's say I have something like "...hello word123"
>
> And I want only 123 to remain.
Ben Fritz wrote:
>
>
>
> On Aug 25, 8:14 pm, Ken Bloom wrote:
>>
>> When I first got interested in vim, it was because I watched people do
>> vi's relatively simple navigation things -- being able to move a word at
>> a time, delete a word, replace a word with simple keystrokes.
>>
>> But I don't
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:39:12 -0700
Danny Colligan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In ex mode, I often make the typo of having the first letter of the
> command capitalized (for instance, ":Set nu" instead of ":set nu")
> since my finger is still on the shift key after typing the colon.
> Some ex command
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:33:03 +0200
Nathan Huesken wrote:
> - It happens with all colorschemes
> - I am on archlinux
> - I am using the gui
> - When I do :hi normal guibg=black in the gui, it works
> but when I do "hi normal guibg=black" in my .vimrc, it is no help :(
Gvim sources /etc/vim/gvimrc
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:14:00 -0700 (PDT)
Bill wrote:
>
> I have been using vim for a week but my searches have not yielded an
> answer for the following question regarding vim 7.2.245 on my xp box.
>
> Vim inserts several blue tilde signs (~) on empty lines *below* my
> text. I don't know why it
On 01/13/2010 05:22 PM, sc wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 09:18:11 am Keyan wrote:
>
>> i know about the 'qwap' option, which formats a paragraph, but
>> i have to following problem. assume i have this text:
>>
>> aaa
>> bbb dddf ff s
>> dfs dff
>> df ff ddf dff
>>
>> where the curso
On 03/19/2010 11:25 AM, j.hofm...@e-punkt.eu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a file with one long line.
> How can I insert a line break every n columns?
You can set 'textwidth' at n columns:
:set tw=n
Then you can use gqgq to format the current line to obey the textwidth.
A side-effect is that (usu
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:20 -0400, Jeremiah Martell wrote:
> I can't seem to get these two to work together:
>
> set foldmethod=indent
> set tabstop=4
Also set 'shiftwidth'. Help on fold-indent explains that shiftwidth is
the value that governs folds.
It's common _not_ to change tabstop, but onl
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 15:38 -0400, Jeremiah Martell wrote:
> It also fixed the folding issue, but broke my syntax matching for
> tabs.
>
> I have this line in a special syntax file:
> syn match SpecialK /\t/
>
> But (with softtabstop instead of tabstop) it only matches double tabs
> (8 spaces),
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 22:52 +0300, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> I'm not really sure about this, but Vim might be inserting tabs every 8
> consecutive spaces. Try setting list to see if there really are tabs
> instead of 8 spaces and, if so, setting notabstop, even
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:12:11AM -0700, kapil_vim wrote:
>
> Hi Vim'ers
>
> i have been using vim past quite some times on linux but now have
> been pushed to windows and there on gvim i am not able to use regular CTRL-v
> for rectangular selection. Please tell me how do we achieve thi
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:05:21PM +0300, Boyko Bantchev wrote:
> On 3 August 2010 21:54, H Xu wrote:
> > Many people quit using vim because they think vim is not as powerful as
> > emacs. However, mostly this is because they don't install vim plugins.
>
> The way you put it already places Vim i
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