Modern Vim Starting with Vim 8.1.1270, there’s a new feature in core to show the current match position. NeoVim enables this functionality by default, but standard Vim does not. To enable it in standard Vim, run: :set shortmess-=S Originally mentioned below in Ben’s answer, and added here for visibility. Older Versions In Vim 7.4+, the … Read more
” Relative path of script file: let s:path = expand(‘<sfile>’) ” Absolute path of script file: let s:path = expand(‘<sfile>:p’) ” Absolute path of script file with symbolic links resolved: let s:path = resolve(expand(‘<sfile>:p’)) ” Folder in which script resides: (not safe for symlinks) let s:path = expand(‘<sfile>:p:h’) ” If you’re using a symlink to … Read more
:!mycommand %:p Related: :!cd %:p:h
About the native syntax highlight for markdown I think it only works for files with the extension .markdown by default. I was having problems with markdown syntax highlight for my .md files. I tried: :set syntax=markdown And it worked. So i included the following line in my .vimrc: au BufNewFile,BufFilePre,BufRead *.md set filetype=markdown Now my … Read more
While in insert mode hit CTRL-R {register} Examples: CTRL-R * will insert in the contents of the clipboard CTRL-R ” (the unnamed register) inserts the last delete or yank. To find this in vim’s help type :h i_ctrl-r
First of all, from __future__ import print_function needs to be the first line of code in your script (aside from some exceptions mentioned below). Second of all, as other answers have said, you have to use print as a function now. That’s the whole point of from __future__ import print_function; to bring the print function … Read more
This is not possible with vim regular expressions (as language that allows such nested constructs is not regular), but is possible with ‘regular’ expressions provided by perl (as well as by other languages I do not know enough to be sure) and perl can be used from inside vim. I don’t like vim-perl bindings (because … Read more
Recompile and install git solve it finally, the steps are the following: sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev -y sudo apt-get build-dep git -y sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev -y cd ~ mkdir source-git cd source-git/ apt-get source git cd git-2.*.*/ sed -i — ‘s/libcurl4-gnutls-dev/libcurl4-openssl-dev/’ ./debian/control sed -i — ‘/TEST\s*=\s*test/d’ ./debian/rules dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us … Read more
Yes. vimrc is loaded before plugins. If you look at :h initialization you will find that step 3 is load vimrc and step 4 is load plugins. You can also see that vimrc is loaded before plugins by looking at the output of :scriptnames. scriptnames lists all sourced scripts in the order they were sourced … 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