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Vimrc settings to emulate Sublime's parenthesis auto-completion
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Currently I moved to vim to use it as my text editor
but I have a problem. In my .vimrc file, I mapped {, [, and < to be {}, [], and <> respectively, it works right but vim makes a lot of blank spaces inside ( to be like ( )!
How can I solve that without adding a plugins if it possible?
Then I start vim (or gvim) with an rc file with only the following commands, it works as expected.
set nocompatible
inoremap { {}<left>
inoremap ( ()<left>
inoremap [ []<left>
inoremap < <lt>><left>
inoremap " ""<left>
inoremap ' ''<left>
Copy the above for a file (e.g. foo), and run vim -u foo, see if it works. If that doesn't work, I cannot reproduce your problem.
If the lines above work, then add the rest of your rc file piece-by-piece, and check where the behavior changes.
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I am trying to add this to my vimrc but I am getting problems one it inserts {{{ at the beginning of my vimrc whenever I open it and also it apparently has 'c' in the regiser as the last pressed key so it deletes the first 2 lines when I press j
And when I run the command it complains that
"A{{{\ is missing a quotation mark and is not a command.
This gave me tip. map execute command vim
You don't need use :execute "normal! ..." if you are using nnoremap. This will work.
nnoremap <C-[> A{{{<Esc><CR>
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what is the meaning of \ | in a map vim command?
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I tried to add the following line in my vimrc
nnoremap <Leader>z <C-w>|<C-w>_
But when vim starts up, it gives me an error:
E488: Trailing characters: _
Then I tried to change the sequence of my commands, so I changed the mapping to:
nnoremap <Leader>z <C-W>_<C-W>|
There are no errors after this change, but it did not behave as I want to. What I want is to hit <Leader>z then other split windows would be minimized.
Escape the |:
nnoremap <Leader>z <C-w>\|<C-w>_
A pipe usually separates lines.
I am trying to make a keymap that will call latexmk when .tex is available (it would be better if .tex is the currently open and active buffer)
I tried :
:nnoremap <Leader>lw :if filereadable('*.tex')<cr>up!<cr>:!latexmk -pdf<cr>endif<cr>
when trying to make latexmk -pdf run, but unfortunately, its just prompting those line in the window, and doing nothing like:
~
:if filereadable('*.tex')
: up!
: :call Tex_RunLaTeX()
: endif
Press ENTER or type command to continue
kindly help.
(it will be great, as told, if this can be done when .tex is the currently open and active buffer.)
NB: this question and its variant has been asked here several time here eg this and this, hence sorry for the repetation. I have failed to solve my problem with those.
You need to do 3 things:
fix your mapping to run the command properly
create a mapping local to a specific buffer by using the <buffer> option for nnoremap.
load the mappings for just a specific filetype.
First fix the mapping by using executing the command as single ex command by using <bar> and removing :'s & <cr>'s. We also remove the filereadable portion because we just wrote the file.
nnoremap <buffer> :up!<bar>!latexmk -pdf<cr>
or you can use an expressing mapping like FDinoff suggested.
Note the <buffer> option on the mapping. This makes the mapping only available to the current buffer not every buffer.
Now we need to make sure this mapping only works for tex filetypes. This can be done via an autocommand in your .vimrc like so:
autocmd FileType tex nnoremap <buffer> :up!<bar>!latexmk -pdf<cr>
The other way option is by creating a filetype plugin. (see :h ftplugin for more details)
A simple example is do create a file named, ~/.vim/ftplugin/text.vim and place your mappings inside like so:
nnoremap <buffer> :up!<bar>!latexmk -pdf<cr>
I personally lean more towards the ftplugin approach but having a everything in your .vimrc file can be nice.
I feel like this could be done with an autocmd.
The autocmd only loads the mapping when the file is a tex file.
autocmd FileType tex nnoremap <leader>lw :up! \| !latexmk -pdf<CR>
If you want to do this filereadable('*.tex') which just checks to see if a file in the directory is a tex file. You could use the expr mapping from the first link. In the else part of the expression we just put an empty string so the mapping will do nothing.
nnoremap <expr> <leader>lw filereadable('*.txt') ? ':up! \| !latexmk -pdf<CR>' : ''
When I use the arrow keys in vim in insert mode I get letters inserted instead of movement.
Up produces an A
Down produces a B
Left products a D
Right produces a C
Does anyone know what would cause this?
Thanks in advance
If these keys work fine in normal mode, but do not in insert then you must have some mappings to the first one or two characters (normally <Up> is either <Esc>[A (terminals that use CSI) or <Esc>OA (xterm)). Try checking out output of
verbose imap <Esc>
, there should be not much mappings starting with <Esc> in insert mode (I have none, for example). I can say, that with arrow keys working normally in insert mode, using
inoremap <Esc> <Esc>
produces just the same behavior as if you had problems with terminal recognition or had 'compatible' set.
Your vim seems to be starting in the vi compatibility mode. Do this
Open Vim editor,
Get the path of your home directory by typing :echo $HOME
Check if you have .vimrc file in $HOME location,(if you don't have create it)
Add the following line line to .vimrc file
:set nocompatible
Find more solutions for the same problem here ( Especially if your problem is terminal related, the re-mapping of keys solution might work for you )
The following worked for me. Just put it in your .vimrc
:set term=cons25
Open Vim editor.
Get the path of your home directory by typing: :echo $HOME.
Check if you have .vimrc file in $HOME location, and if you don't have create it.
Add the following line line to .vimrc file: :set nocompatible
Reference: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Fix_arrow_keys_that_display_A_B_C_D_on_remote_shell
None of the answer here worked for me. I'm in Linux, with konsole/yakuake terminal and tmux. This fix works for me:
nnoremap <silent> <ESC>OA <ESC>ki
nnoremap <silent> <ESC>OB <ESC>ji
nnoremap <silent> <ESC>OC <ESC>hi
nnoremap <silent> <ESC>OD <ESC>li
inoremap <silent> <ESC>OA <ESC>ki
inoremap <silent> <ESC>OB <ESC>ji
inoremap <silent> <ESC>OC <ESC>hi
inoremap <silent> <ESC>OD <ESC>li
My current .vimrc file is
syntax on
colorscheme zellner
set nu
set ruler
set si "Smart indet
map <C-s> :w<cr>
I thought the last line would allow me to hit control-s to automatically save while in normal mode?
{
The last line is just the trim downed version of what I really want which is
map <C-s> <esc>:w<cr>a
}
Am I forgetting something?
I'm using vim 7.3 that came with my mac.
Like mentioned if you want it on both modes you have to just put
inoremap <C-s> <esc>:w<cr>a
nnoremap <C-s> :w<cr>a
in your .vimrc.
But note that if you are using the terminal vim then you might have a problem
mapping ctrl-s. By default it stops the flow. In that case add the following to your .bashrc (not sure if the same problem in zsh):
stty -ixon
If I got it right, you want
:inoremap <C-s> <esc>:w<cr>a
Whoops, just read you want it in normal mode
:nnoremap <C-s> :w<cr>
When you're writing commands in vim files (like .vimrc) you don't need the :. It is only a method of entering commands on the command line.