I have looked everywhere and I am still unable to switch off this 'feature'!
I've been using vi and, later, vim, since the 80's and I have never had need of multiple cursors, nor can I see a use for them.
:<range>s/search/replace/ does everything I need so this new feature is infuriating beyond words, especially as I've no idea how to switch it off when it seemingly-randomly appears.
Would someone be wonderful enough as to tell me how to banish, remove, consign-to-history the multiple cursors feature in VSCode Vim 1.12.4, please?
I believe this issue is specific to the plugin. I experienced it with the HTML plugin recently, and I'm assuming you have the same problem with HTML files, but the same principle should apply to other plugins as well. You just have to find the setting.
In the VS Code settings, there is an option that reads:
HTML: Mirror Cursor On Matching Tag
You can uncheck the box there to disable the feature. Or you can go to the settings.json in your local repo (inside the .vscode directory), or the equivalent global file, and add/modify the following field like so:
"html.mirrorCursorOnMatchingTag": false
That should take care of it for you.
Related
So I'm using Sublime Text 3 w/ Julia, and I have mixed feelings about the autocomplete. A lot of the time it recommends these vague internal functions that aren't even close to the word I'm typing in. For example:
http://puu.sh/iWyrB/7293a9928f.png
Even if I've used dict_t as a variable before, I have to type in most of the word before it recommends dict_t; it seems to happen once it runs out of internal functions to recommend.
So it seems like this is coming from the IJulia package. I like using that package, but moments like the picture above are frustrating. Any advice?
Edit:
To disable "insert completion on tab" add this to you User Preferences:
// By default, auto complete will commit the current completion on enter.
// This setting can be used to make it complete on tab instead.
// Completing on tab is generally a superior option, as it removes
// ambiguity between committing the completion and inserting a newline.
"auto_complete_commit_on_tab": false,
To disable the auto-complete popup (but still be able to insert completion on tab):
// Enable auto complete to be triggered automatically when typing.
"auto_complete": true,
I'm afraid you cannot remove only the completions coming from Sublime-IJulia and keeping all default completions without changing any code in the Sublime-IJulia package.
If what you need is genera Julia support for sublime (syntax highlighting, auto-indent etc), I recommend switching from Sublime-IJulia to Julia-sublime. Sublime-IJulia had it's last commit in January 2015 while Julia-sublime is actively maintained. Most notably in this case, Julia-sublime does not give autocomplete for all standard functions.
Note that Julia-sublime, like other syntax packages in sublime, does not not strive to be an IDE substitute. These features should be separated, not all users wants both.
For running Julia code from within Sublime with IDE-like functionality there is currently no good alternative, the packages I've found are outdated and have quite a few issues.
When it comes to developing and testing code, I like keep a REPL open in the terminal and just re-include() my code in there. I find this to be flexible and efficient. More on this in the Julia FAQ: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/faq/#how-can-i-modify-the-declaration-of-a-type-immutable-in-my-session).
Disclosure: I am the maintainer of Julia-sublime. If you encounter issues or feel that something can be improved, I encourage you open an issue.
Does anyone know some shortcuts for FakeVim to change between files?
Is it possible to use buffers in Fake Vim? I accidentally found out that Ctrl+w,w gets you the next window. Does anyone know other? For example getting to the left, right, top, bottom windows?(vim's Ctrl+w,l and others)? Is there any documentation on FakeVim? Is it possible to configure FakeVim's vimrc file to create shortcuts for changing between buffers and the Projects view?
Thanks!
Recently I've been doing most of the changes on FakeVim plugin.
You can find list of Vim commands supported by FakeVim at https://github.com/hluk/FakeVim (recent version from Git master branch).
I'm still not sure how to document the features in Qt Creator. I'll probably implement something like :help <command> in near future.
The FakeVim documentation is severely lacking. This paragraph, for example, is so fuzzy it's borderline irresponsible:
In the FakeVim mode, most keystrokes in the main editor will be intercepted and interpreted in a way that resembles Vim. Documentation for Vim is not included in Qt Creator. For more information on using Vim, see Documentation on the Vim web site.
Basically, without a proper documentation or a look at the editor's source code it's impossible to know what should work, what shouldn't and in which way the behavior of what works deviates from Vim's behavior. And that's what passes for a modern IDE, these days.
Whatever…
I think that your best bet is simply trial and error: since you appear to know how to use Vim you'll have a lot of commands and shortcuts to try.
Ive been trying to get the VIM auto completion working, but am running into issues unfortunately.
Right now I tried just starting with the basics. trying to get the auto completion to work on HTML documents first. But even this is becoming an issue.
I set the correct DOCTYPE, and have even specified different ones to see if it will work on Transitional, or Strict, or even XHTML or HTML5, but none are seeming to work.
The htmlcomplete.vim file is indeed in the "autoload" directory.
In my vimrc file, the correct setting is applied:
filetype plugin indent on
But still this isn't working, and no amount of research is helping me, because the only relevant results are issues with C++ auto completion, in VIM. (which vim does not fully support at this time, but it DOES support HTML auto completion, as I know because I have had it work on multiple instances of different systems before.)
What do you guys think I should do next? Im not sure where I should go from here..
No matter what, when I use the "omni completion" option. AKA (Ctrl+X, Ctrl+O), it always says:
Omni Completion (^O^N^P) Pattern not found
The syntax highlighting works by default without even using:
:syntax on/:syntax enable
it just recognizes by the filetype as it should. so that works.
The indentation has started working ever since I uncommented the "filetype plugin indent on". but I just cant get this to work correctly.
But maybe, I am missing the point here, and thinking about this the wrong way. So please correct me if I am wrong.
What function I am looking for, is when I type "<" it will automatically bring up a drop down list with all the tags it could be, and say I type "<" it will further refine to "div", etc. This is the functionality I am used to in Vim, without any configuring, just by default.
When I use the command "Ctrl+N" or "Ctrl+P" I get a very small (12 tags) list of possible tags, but that is manual, and not automatically detecting the typed "<".
Am I looking at the wrong thing? Is Omni Completion not the right option I should be looking at configuring? Or was this a different plugin to provide this functionality?
Whenever I look into it, it always refers to "Ctrl+X + Ctrl+O" as the syntax auto completion, so I assumed this is the feature I have come to know. but maybe I am wrong.
So can someone help to explain this better to me, point me in the right direction. Or let me know I am on the right path (if I am) and help me fix this issue?
Thank you guys.
Take care.
As requested here is the information:
The vimrc file is here: http://pastebin.com/QfUDVvdP
My version is 7.3 (aka vim73)
I am using the CLI version, as I find GVIM actually more confusing. but I have both. and they use the same vim runtime.
I have not added any more plugins or extra feautres, as this is a fresh install on Ubuntu 12.04, which is also a fresh install. The only thing that has been altered or added is "smali.vim" syntax highlighting to syntax folder, as well as opa.vim, and opajs.vim. also opacomplete.vim to autoload.
there is vimrc, and vimrc.tiny, as well as gvimrc in /etc/vim/ folder.
and all the files for vim are located in the default directory, /usr/share/vim/vim73/ and /usr/share/vim/. None of the files are moved, changed, or altered besides what was already specified.
hope that helps.
First of all, Omni Completion never worked (or works) automatically. You said popup should appear when you insert '<' - this is not working in Vim by default. You have to press Ctrl X O combination. At least it is not working for me.
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/version7.html#new-omni-completion
I guess you have a plugin for that or something. It's not hard to implement it. Start Vim without loading any plugins to check it out. Anyway, to the question.
Many folks do not know, that Vim 7+ has decent support for XML/XHTML/HTML languages (no plugins needed!) with possibilities to extend it with any XML-based language you want. What you can do is to use DTD/RNG converters that prepares Vim definition which is used to give you omni completion.
For example, my Vim installation contains support for HTML4 and XHTML languages by default:
$ rpm -ql vim vim-common | grep xml
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html32.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html401f.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html401s.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html401t.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html40f.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html40s.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/html40t.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/xhtml10f.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/xhtml10s.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/xhtml10t.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/xhtml11.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/xsd.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xml/xsl.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/autoload/xmlcomplete.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/compiler/xmllint.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/compiler/xmlwf.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/xml.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/indent/xml.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/docbkxml.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/xml.vim
The trick is Vim's autoloading feature. You need to make sure the file you are opening has the proper DOCTYPE definition which is correct. So use that for HTML and XHTML files, then Vim 7+ will automatically enable XML/HTML omni completion for you. Example for HTML4:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
</html>
Now try to insert body tag, type "bo" and hit Ctrl X O. Bang. Try to add an attribute, type "on" and hit it again. Bingo.
You can use Ctrl X O and other features:
after "<" complete the tag name, depending on context
inside of a tag complete proper attributes
when an attribute has a limited number of possible values help to complete
them
complete names of entities (defined in |xml-omni-datafile| and in the
current file with "
when used after "
More info (and possible user customization with own XML definitioins) here:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#ft-xml-omni
Omnicompletion is the right feature and <C-x><C-o> is the right shortcut. You should stop calling it autocompletion, by the way, because it's far from being automatic.
You don't need anything in ~/.vim/autoload because htmlcomplete.vim is already in $VIMRUNTIME.
In brief, given what I know of your settings, completion should work.
But it isn't. Please append the content of your ~/.vimrc, a list of installed plugins (and how/where they are installed) and details on your Vim version, platform and if you use the GUI or the CLI version.
edit
Omnicompletion is the right feature but you are looking for a specific plugin that uses omnicompletion under the hood on each couple of keystroke as there's no built-in setting to enable Auto completion. AutoComplPop is one such plugin (and the one I use), there are others. Pick the one that most closely matches with your previous experience.
You shouldn't touch anything in /usr/share/vim/ or /etc/vim/. All your settings should go into ~/.vimrc and your plugins should go into ~/.vim/.
~
.vim/
autoload/
opacomplete.vim
syntax/
opa.vim
opajs.vim
smali.vim
.vimrc
You must revert the default files and directories to their original state before going further.
endedit
I have just made the switch from Textmate to MacVim and so far I am loving it! My workflow is just becoming a breeze… and I'm kinda hooked on that.
As front-end developer working on Rails projects I find that I am constantly opening up the same folders in the projects (app/assets/javascripts|stylesheets & app/views & specs).
I was wondering if there was a way to set shortcuts to open up these folders in NerdTree? I've looked into Bookmarks but these seem absolute paths - I'd like default relative paths for all the Rails projects I work on. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Ad
There is no default way to do this in NERDTree. It is probably possible, but it would require a custom script to do what you're describing. I'm sure you can get help developing that if you look for it, but I'm betting it will be hard to find something that already does this.
You can, however, check out https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails/, which as far as I know is the de facto standard for Rails development in Vim. It'll probably cut down on your need to use NERDTree to navigate files at all, because you can jump through related files quickly with other commands.
As romaini mentioned, bookmarks are also very handy. Make a bookmark for the top-level of a Rails project, open something, use vim-rails techniques to navigate related files, you'll get what you need.
Did you try the project plugin?
NERDTree stores bookmarks in a very simple file. Creating one such file for every project and pointing NERDtree to it may solve the problem.
I am looking for recommendations on using VIM as an IDE. I generally code in a number of programming languages, including C, C++, assembler, MATLAB, Maple, BASH scripts, to name a few.
In general, I like to use a single IDE for the bulk of my projects for the sake of consistency, and I have found that I perform about 90% of all my coding in VIM, and occasionally use Eclipse instead for certain projects in C/C++ (ie: projects people have already put together as an Eclipse project, or PIC24/32 projects from www.microchip.com).
I am already very familiar with the basic functionality of VIM (windows vs buffers, text manipulation, scripting), and would like to use it as my primary IDE. I have already taken a few tips from here:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Vim_like_an_IDE#Writing_Code
I already use the nerdTree plugin for directory browsing in a project, etc, but I need to do something about code completion and symbol resolution, as those are my two greatest concerns.
Symbol resolution
I have some limited experience in the use of C-tags, and wanted a suggestion on what I should use if I am working with a VERY large code-base that changes frequently. The projects I work on typically are pulling in header files from at least a dozen other projects, and I would like to be able to jump to the file where a function, constant, or macro is defined quickly (ie: like the CTRL-G feature in Eclipse, "jump to definition"), as well as rapidly get a list of all calls/references to a function/macro/constant/etc (ie: like the CTRL-SHIFT-G feature in Eclipse, "Show all references in project or current working directory").
Tab completion
One of the features I really like in Visual Studio and Eclipse, for example, is when I type in a variable name (ie: pointer to struct) and it resolves the names and types of all structure members and gives me a tab completion list to choose the appropriate member. They also point out when I've incorrectly used "." vs "->" for member access. I've tried superTab in VIM, but I just couldn't get it working. I also want the tab-completion feature to use the same C-tags as generated by the symbol resolution plugin
Handling build output
The final concern of mine is having an auto-generated list of build warnings and build errors. When I, for example, just run "make all" at the command-line prompt, it is a pain to have to read through code listings to manually find all build warnings.
I realize this is a lot to ask, and that I could always just fall-back to Visual Studio or Eclipse, but I really want just a simple cross-platform console-capable modal editor for all my development needs, and none of the major IDE's out there fill this need.
Thank you all in advance.
http://eclim.org/ - bring Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic - syntax checker warnings in quickfix list
I think (but haven't checked) that Eclim satisfies #1 and #2 while I'm sure that Syntastic satisfies #3. More things of interest:
https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline - just nice
https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim - quick file finder
https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen - plugin manager (to install the others)
And are you aware of omnicompletion via Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n (prev and next) in insert mode? That's not code completion, but frequently does the job.
For the auto-completion part (point 2), I am proficiently using clang_complete.
For a quick setup and reference, try this page: http://zwiener.org/vimautocomplete.html
EDIT: this is for C, C++ and Objective-C only.
I use the following configuration in vim:
zipped file
It has autocomplete based on tag list, ctags, nerd commenter and some more plugins.
Hope it helps.. :)
I have been using Vim as an IDE for about a year now. All of my customization is online at github.
That said, I don't think a Vim beginner should start using vim like this; rather I think the Vim beginner should learn vim incrementally. The only changes that I think are so essential I would make them from the very beginning are:
Remap ESC to jk
Switch : and ;
Set leader key to ,