I am using the script from here, and it seems setting the g:custom_foldtext_max_width variable cannot get rid of the extra "--" symbols in the end of the folded lines.
Is there any way to make the folded line not go beyond 80 characters ?
Try this command.
%!fold -sw80
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I'm writing an errorformat string, and it works for the most part. My problem is that I have lines like this as the makeprg output:
Some text I want to show in the QuickFix window^M
Yes, the line ends with an spurious ^M character I want to remove. So, what I want in my QuickFix window is this, without the ^M character:
|| Some text I want to show in the QuickFix window
but I have this instead:
|| Some text I want to show in the QuickFix window^M
So far, this is the relevant part of my errorformat:
set errorformat=%+GSome text%m
I've tested, without success, something like this:
set errorformat=%+GSome text%m%-G^M%.%#
but it throws an error (not from the ^M which is a literal control-M char, not a caret followed by an M).
Obviously the solution is not using %G but I am at a loss here.
How can I remove the line ending character from the line here? And also, removing the initial || would be a plus, but I think it's impossible to do in Vim.
Thanks in advance!
Edited to make clearer how the input text looks
Well, turns out I found a solution, probably not very good but it works, using trial and error.
set errorformat=%\\(Some Text%*[^.]).%\\)%\\#=%m
That is, the solution is using the Vim pattern (regex) expressions within errorformat, which has a quite arcane look but works, together with %* to match unknown text on the rest of the line
The solution uses \#=, a zero-width match, and requires some kind of terminator for the line, which appears before the ^M character I want to ignore, and some kind of text appearing somewhere on the line to match that line and not others.
Probably there is a much better solution but this is the best I could do myself.
At the right of my vim-airline display, I have ! trailing[1].
I'm assuming this means trailing whitespace of some sort, but how do I read what vim-airline is telling me and what am I supposed to do?
That means you have a trailing whitespace on the first line ([1]).
You can add to your .vimrc the following:
set list " Display unprintable characters f12 - switches
set listchars=tab:•\ ,trail:•,extends:»,precedes:« " Unprintable chars mapping
That'll display whitespace chars. You can toggle it with :set invlist.
Airline is telling you that on line 1 you have trailing whitespace, which is usually something you want to get rid of.
So go to the line and delete it (1G$gelD).
It’s a good feature, but you can turn it on/off with:
:AirlineToggleWhitespace
More info on trailing whitespace here.
To turn off the trailing whitespace check at startup, add to your vimrc:
let g:airline#extensions#whitespace#enabled = 0
I am configuring tmux & powerline. I would like to change the default separators in tmux status line. I managed to figure out where to do it, however I could not get the special character that I want.
I want to type, in Vim, a left/right pointing triangle that spans the whole line-height, but the only thing I could find is a small triangle (unicode : 25B6,25BA,25C0,25C4...)
There is a big right pointing triangle already in a powerline configuration file, which I could copy and paste, but I want to know its unicode and want a left one. Is there a way to get the unicode from the symbol in Vim or anywhere else?
You can get the codepoint value of a character in Vim by positioning the cursor on the character in question and typing either ga or :ascii.
You can either use ga in command mode or :ascii on the command line (even though it says ascii, it shows information for general encodings)
You may add a permanent preview of current character in your status line (see :h statusline), eg.:
:let &statusline = &statusline . "\ [%03b\ 0x%B]"
I'm trying to customize vim folding style and stuck with indentation. I know it has been asked multiple times here and I use this command (which seem to work for others) to test the appearance of fold:
:set foldtext=' '.foldtext()
This however gives me 'unknown option' error. Apparently, it doesn't accept the string containing only space(s), because this
:set foldtext='mytext'.foldtext()
works fine and adds 'mytext' to the beginning of folds.
Why doesn't it work and what's the way around it?
You just need to escape the space. Use this instead.
:set foldtext='\ '.foldtext()
The space is causing vim to think you want to set foldtext to ' and then '.foldtext() is the next argument to set. However this isn't what you want and the reason the error message is
E518: Unknown option: '.foldtext()
Escaping the space tell vim that foldtext='\ '.foldtext() is one argument instead of two.
You can use the EightHeader plugin if you prefer aligned foldtext. Example from the help:
If you don't like the default 'foldtext' you can customize it by setting to
EightHeaderFolds().
For example the closed folds looks like this by default:
```+-- 45 lines: Fold level one
+--- 67 lines: Fold level two
If you would like to change it to this kind:
Fold level one................45 lines
Fold level two..............67 lines
... then you can use this function:
let &foldtext = "EightHeaderFolds( '\\=s:fullwidth-2', 'left', [ repeat( ' ', v:foldlevel - 1 ), '.', '' ], '\\= s:foldlines . \" lines\"', '' )"
I noted that the 'showbreak' symbol is highlighted with the highlight "NonText" color-element. NonText is also used for the EOL Characters.
I would like to keep the highlight-color for the EOL characters but want to change it for the showbreak symbol is that possible?
Another problem is that my showbreak symbol is not displayed.
I would like to use this symbol "↳" and put it in the linenumbers column (using set cpoptions+=n). I can't find out how to display the symbol and how to put a space after the showbreak symbol (between the text and the symbol).
Can anyone help me?
I don't think you're going to get highlighting to be different than the EOL character, at least I am not aware of a way to do that.
For the second part I can help with. I was able to get "↳ " to show up in my line number column with the following settings:
let &showbreak = '↳ '
set wrap
set cpo=n
Note that there is a space after the ↳. This lines up nice until you have > 9 lines in the file. If you wanted it to line up with the last character of the number column regardless of the number of lines I'm not sure what you're going to have to do.
Edit: I've recently written a proof-of-concept function for someone on IRC that highlights the first character on a line that has been wrapped with a different highlight group. It hasn't been tested much but it seems to work. Not exactly what you're looking for but maybe it's worth a look.
:help hl-NonText makes it pretty clear that you cannot have different colors for the 'showbreak' string and other non-text strings, of which eol is a member (see :help 'listchars'):
NonText
'~' and '#' at the end of the window, characters from 'showbreak' and
other characters that do not really exist in the text (e.g., ">"
displayed when a double-wide character doesn't fit at the end of the
line).
If you're willing to accept this limitation (#elliottcable) hi! link NonText LineNr will match the 'showbreak' string to the line number colors.
If you really wanted to get clever, as a compromise you could create a mapping or command to toggle between ':set list' and ':set nolist' that would also adjust the NonText highlight setting simultaneously.
If you use :set relativenumber (added in vim 7.3), :set showbreak=↳\ \ \ will reliably keep your 'showbreak' neatly lined up since the number width will not change as you navigate through the file. (This in addition to the :set cpo+=n and :set wrap #Randy Morris mentioned in his answer.)
You'll definitely need UTF-8 for the ↳ character, since it does not appear in other encodings. I'd strongly recommend you carefully document your encoding problems, with details about how to reproduce them along with your OS, its version, and the :version output of vim, and post them as separate questions. UTF-8 should be helping you wrangle multiple languages rather than being an impediment.