My vim always automatically converts tabs into spaces whenever I save (:w) a Go file (*.go), which is not what I want.
My vim is cloned from https://github.com/freedombird9/vim_anywhere. Besides that, I installed vim-go with Vundle.
I looked my .vimrc and the plugin folder for possible configs, basically configs like autocmd BufWritePre and :write that could change the save behavior. But I did not find anything that suggests there's a conversion before save. I also didn't see such a setting in vim-go.
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I'd like to have syntax highlighting on files with the .ott extension (using ott-vim), but I am not getting any colors when opening a file, even though filetype=ott is set. Re-setting set filetype=ott manually does enable the colors again.
Oddly enough, I also get colors on file opening when I change the extension in ftdetect/ott.vim to something other than *.ott.
Is there something special about the *.ott extension, or some clash with another file format?
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.ott set filetype=ott
" a.ott does not get highlighted
" Replace *.ott with *.ot, then a.ot gets highlighted
This is a conflict with the zipPlugin that is distributed with vim (/usr/share/vim/current/plugin/zipPlugin.vim), and which recognizes a .ott file as a zip archive. Hacky fix to remove that extension from those recognized by zipPlugin:
" ~/.vimrc
let g:zipPlugin_ext='*.zip'
I would like to change my sort order dynamically. At times, I want my sources to be listed alphabetical, at times I want only one extension to be shown.
I can currently get it to work by editing NERDTreeSortOrder in my ~/.vimrc.
But how do I do this without re-launching VIM?
I tried just executing ":let NERDTreeSortOrder = ['new sort order']" but that doesn't really change anything. i add it to my vimrc, quit VIM and restart and it works.
By the way, if someone can tell me how to make NerdTree show only a specific extension, that would work for me too. I know I can make NERDTree not show a particular file type by adding it to ignore, but I want the other way around.
Any ideas?
You'll need to refresh the directory (after entering let NERDTreeSortOrder=[...]).
While in the NERDTree buffer, either :
r to limit the refresh to the selected directory
R to refresh from the start of the root node.
As for whitelisting specific file extensions, have at look at this question.
Have your tried source-ing your .vimrc from within vim?
:source $MYVIMRC or :source ~/.vimrc
:source can be shortened to :so, e.g. :so ~/.vimrc
I'd like to have my go files indented with tabs not whitespaces.
When I run :set expandtab then :retab I get what I want but it automatically switches back to an indentation with whitespaces everytime I save the file.
I am using the vim-go plugin but I couldn't find anything in the doc/code which could lead to this issue. I have tried changing to setlocal noexpandtab in ftplugin/go.vim but it didn't work
How can I change this?
Many thanks
Put that in the ~/.vimrc file to make the settings permanent.
Here's a wiki article on this - http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indent_with_tabs,_align_with_spaces
I tried all possible things to let vim set filetype to 'txt' to all new files I create (in a new tab) but it doesn't work.
This is p.e. what I've read on the web a few times:
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt setlocal ft=txt
(to put in _vimrc)
However it doesn't work.
Can anyone help me?
The following line, added to your .vimrc, will set the filetype to text if it is not already set.
autocmd BufEnter * if &filetype == "" | setlocal ft=text | endif
All files are considered plain text unless you have file-type detection turned on or explicitly set the file-type. However, Vim lets you set the file-type to any old text, so are you absolutely sure it is not working?
:set filetype=banana
:set filetype?
filetype=banana
Setting the filetype is not going to have any noticable effect unless there is a corresponding file in the ftplugin Vim directory and Vim does not ship with a txt.vim file-type file. You could, of couse, add a txt.vim here but I am not sure what this will gain you over default settings — what special behaviour would you want for text files that you would not want for the default behaviour?
(If you want syntax highlighting (whatever that may mean for text file!) then you will also have to create a txt.vim file in the syntax Vim directory.)
What effect are you trying to achieve?
It's actually way simpler than all this. Just put this as one of the first lines in your .vimrc.
set ft=txt
Whenever opening a new file, the filetype will be set to txt. But if you open a file with an known existing type it will still be overridden no problem.
Is there a way to unmap mappings set by plugins? I'm currently calling exe ":mapclear" before my custom mappings in my .vimrc file, but the plugin files appear to be sourced after the vimrc file does. I have to resource my vimrc file again for it to work as expected.
I'm using Pathogen for sourcing plugins, which are all contained in my ~/.vim/bundle folder.
You could write the part with the mappings in your .vimrc in another file, say MyMaps.vim, and put this file in ~/.vim/after/plugin/.
This should make your maps the default ones
Look also at the documentation of the plugins setting the mappings, some of them
allow you redifine or deactivate the default mappings.
While snooping around my various plugins, I've found a kind of solution.
Unfortunately, a lot of the plugins (such as vim-surround, and vim-align, which in turn uses cecutil) add commands to my mapleader. Since I realised there actually are some key mappings from plugins I do use, I decided to set my mapleader back to its default (backslash) at the end of my vimrc file to prevent overlap.
The only problem I came across were mappings that were set in functions. When using au FileType html call ConfigHTML(), for example, the ConfigHTML() function would actually get called after the mapleader is set back to backslash.