All the answers I’ve seen here address the question “how could I prevent Vim from adding a newline character at the end of the file?“, while the question was “Why would Vim add a new line at the end of a file?“. My browser’s search engine brought me here, and I didn’t find the answer … Read more
For multi line version you can do this after selecting the text: :'<,’>:w !command<CR> See the official Vim docs at :help :w_c. You can map it to simple Visual mode shortcut like this: xnoremap <leader>c <esc>:'<,’>:w !command<CR> Hit <leader key>+c in visual mode to send the selected text to a stdin of the command. stdout … Read more
You can use :map <buffer> … to make a local mapping just for the active buffer. This requires that your Vim was compiled with +localmap. So you can do something like autocmd FileType python map <buffer> <C-G> …
*.rb isn’t a filetype. It’s a file pattern. ruby is the filetype and could even be set on files that don’t have a .rb extension. So, what you most likely want is a function that your autocmd calls to both check for filetypes which shouldn’t be acted on and strips the whitespace. fun! StripTrailingWhitespace() ” … Read more
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There are two simple ways to highlight multiple words in vim editor. Go to search mode i.e. type ‘/‘ and then type \v followed by the words you want to search separated by ‘|‘ (pipe). E.g.: /\vword1|word2|word3 Go to search mode and type the words you want to search separated by ‘\|‘. E.g.: /word1\|word2\|word3 Basically … Read more
Gvim doesn’t do it because vim cannot do it (under normal circumstances). Sorry, but that’s just how it is. However… Some terminals (e.g., xterm and iterm2) can be configured to send an arbitrary escape sequence for any combination of keys. For example, add the following to .Xresources for xterm to send <Esc>[65;5u for CtrlShiftA. You … Read more
SHIFTV puts you in select lines mode. Then “+y yanks the currently selected lines to the + register which is the clipboard. There are quite a few different registers, for different purposes. See the section on selection and drop registers for details on the differences between * and + registers on Windows and Linux. Note … Read more
The best place to keep your configuration stuff is in your .vimrc file. However, it’s sourced too early, check :h startup: At startup, Vim checks environment variables and files and sets values accordingly. Vim proceeds in this order: 1. Set the ‘shell’ and ‘term’ option *SHELL* *COMSPEC* *TERM* 2. Process the arguments 3. Execute Ex … Read more
ctags enables two features: allowing you to jump from function calls to their definitions, and omni completion. The first means that when you are over a call to a method, hitting g] or CTRL-] will jump to the place where that method is defined or implemented. The second feature means that when you type foo. … Read more