I am using spf13-vim and whenever I press tab, I get these dots. They are there even when I press space.
How I can remove these dots. I want the indentation to happen but without dots. I searched a lot on the web but there is no information available or I could not find.
What changes should I do in my .vimrc to hide these dots?
EDIT
I tried ,ig command or added let g:indent_guides_enable_on_vim_startup = 0 in .vimrc.local but I am still getting the dots.
EDIT
:set nolist worked for me, as suggested by #Christian Brabandt in the comments
What you want to do goes by the term disabling tab highlighting. More information is here:
spf13-vim disable tab highlighting
Add set nolist to ~/.vimrc.local to override default spf13-vim settings.
That behaviour is caused by the following lines in .vimrc (233, 234):
set list
set listchars=tab:›\ ,trail:•,extends:#,nbsp:. " Highlight problematic whitespace
list mode is used to display whitespace and special characters, listchars allows to configure corresponding characters that will be displayed.
Related
Vim has a tendency to automagically mess with the indentations in the line I'm currently working on, as well as placing linebreaks. I want it to do an automatic indentation when I manually make a linebreak (i.e. physically hitting the Enter key), but not in any other case, I don't want it to make any linebreaks itself either, and I want these settings to be permanent.
The textwidth option controls the number of characters after which a line break will be inserted, see :h textwidth.
To turn off the insertion of line breaks while editing, the following lines should be added to .vimrc:
set textwidth=0
set wrapmargin=0
set formatexpr=
Information on the options can be obtained by the usual :h command.
Note that these options are set globally but may be overridden e.g. by a filetype plugin. If the problem persists, see :h ftplugin.
Another question is where :set textwidth=132 originates from. This may be due to an earlier misconfiguration or set from any plugin.
I set the setting in the vi file to spaces, and I want to verify that it is working correctly is there a way to test it ?
I know it is a trivial question but I am new to vi editor
take a look at :set list / :help list
you can set listchars like so:
set listchars=tab:>-,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:< " mark all kinds of whitespace
as an example, this setting will show tabs as > so you know where your tabs are.
useful links:
Make Vim show ALL white spaces as a character
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/See_the_tabs_in_your_file
I'm an absolut vim-newbie so I thought I'll try it with some preconfigured distribution like spf13-vim. So to my question, I would like to disable the "tab-highlighting" because I find it kind of distracting...
I think this picture should make clear what I mean
Put a line below in your ~/.vimrc.local or ~/.vimrc.before.local to disable indent guide by default. You can <leader>ig as well.
let g:indent_guides_enable_on_vim_startup = 0
You can toggle them on/off with ,ig.
write set nolist in your .vimrc.local to turn it off.
see :h list
'list' boolean (default off)
List mode: Show tabs as CTRL-I is displayed, display $ after end of
line. Useful to see the difference between tabs and spaces and for
trailing blanks. Further changed by the 'listchars' option.
I'm currently trying to switch from gedit to vim. I try to make vim look similar to gedit:
Especially, I would like to show spaces with dots.
I currently have:
There are some differences, but it looks quite similar (this is my current .vimrc file). But I don't get those dots for spaces.
How can I make vim show spaces?
I found some answers (like this one) that seem to suggest to replace spaces by a special visible character and then replace it back. I don't want to do this every time. I want to be able to open vim and see those spaces.
Show non-space whitespace with
set list
Additionally show spaces as . with
set lcs+=space:·
Turn it off with
set nolist
There are times when I absolutely need to see which whitespaces are tabs and which are true space characters, as well as when spaces appear at the end of a line.
When I'm using vim, I use:
:set list
(which I can turn off with :set nolist)
With :set list, literal spaces show up as spaces, tabs show up as ^I, and the end-of-line shows up as a bright-pink $. (So any blank space you see to the left of the pink $ you'll know is a true space character, and the blank spaces to the right of it is just the "nothing" between the end-of-line and the right side of the editor.)
It's ugly, but it works well.
I don't recommend using it all the time -- just those times when it is crucial to see where literal spaces and literal tab characters exist.
While you can't do exactly what you want here, if your reasoning is like mine, you're wanting to see those spaces because it helps verify proper indentation (do I have 2 spaces there, or is it 3?). For Vim >= 7.3, you can use the indentLine plugin to add a marker at each indentation. It's awesome.
To install if you're using Pathogen:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/Yggdroot/indentLine
It may be worth using undercurl to do the job.
hi WhiteSpaces gui=undercurl guifg=LightGray
match WhiteSpaces / \+/
or you can put this in your .vimrc
autocmd ColorScheme * highlight WhiteSpaces gui=undercurl guifg=LightGray | match WhiteSpaces / \+/
Show leading spaces (indent spaces) using the above mentioned plugin indentLine.
If you use Vundle as plugin manager you can add Plugin 'Yggdroot/indentLine' to your .vimrc and then run vim +PluginInstall +qall to install the plugin.
Add the following two lines to your .vimrc to show leading spaces as ·.
let g:indentLine_leadingSpaceChar='·'
let g:indentLine_leadingSpaceEnabled='1'
Using the answers of J-L and Cedric Simon. Edit ~/.vimrc and add:
set lcs+=space:·
nmap <F2> :set invlist<CR>
imap <F2> <ESC>:set invlist<CR>a
and when you work with vim just pres F2
Vim has been providing the 'listchars' option to show Tab vs. Space, and space characters in critical places, i.e. trailing at the end of lines. In previous versions (when the question was written), it did not offer a modification for all spaces: a blank square is a space, period. Other answers provided some workarounds, though.
In current Vim versions, there are many space-related options; cp. :help 'listchars' for details.
You can get the effect seen in your screenshot; persist by putting that command into your ~/.vimrc:
:set list listchars+=space:. listchars-=eol:$
You don't need to install any plugin to this:
set listchars=tab:\|\
"set listchars=tab:\┊\
"set listchars=tab:\┆\
"set listchars=tab:\¦\
set list
This has bugged me for a long time, and try as I might I can't find a way round it.
When I'm editing text (specifically latex, but that doesn't matter) files, I want it to auto-wrap at 80 columns. It does this, except if I happen to be in the middle of a parenthetical clause, it indents the text which is very annoying. For example, this works fine
Here is some text... over
two lines.
but this doesn't
Here is some text... (over
two
lines
If anyone can tell me how to turn this off (just for text/latex files) I'd be really grateful. Presumably it has something to do with the fact that this is desired behaviour in C, but I still can't figure out what's wrong.
:set nocindent
The other options do nothing, and the filetype detection doesn't change it.
There are three options you may need to turn off: set noai, set nosi, and setnocin (autoindent, smartindent, and cindent).
This may be related, when pasting from gui into terminal window, vim cannot distinguish paste modes, so to stop any odd things from occuring:
set paste
then paste text
set nopaste
I had similar issues trying to paste xml text, it would just keep indenting. :)
gvim, the gui version of vim, can detect paste modes.
You can have a look at the autoindent option :
autoindent - ai
Copy indent from current line when starting a new line (typing
in Insert mode or when using the "o" or "O" command). If you do not
type anything on the new line except and then type or
, the indent is deleted again. When autoindent is on,
formatting (with the "gq" command or when you reach 'textwidth' in
Insert mode) uses the indentation of the first line. When
'smartindent' or 'cindent' is on the indent is changed in specific
cases. The 'autoindent' option is reset when the 'paste' option is
set. {small difference from Vi: After the indent is deleted when
typing or , the cursor position when moving up or down is
after the deleted indent; Vi puts the cursor somewhere in the deleted
indent}.
From the official Vim documentation
filetype plugin indent on
This switches on three very clever
mechanisms:
Filetype detection. Whenever you start editing a file, Vim will try to
figure out what kind of file this
is. When you edit "main.c", Vim will
see the ".c" extension and
recognize this as a "c" filetype.
When you edit a file that starts with
"#!/bin/sh", Vim will recognize it as
a "sh" filetype. The filetype
detection is used for syntax
highlighting and the other two
items below. See |filetypes|.
Using filetype plugin files Many different filetypes are edited with
different options. For example,
when you edit a "c" file, it's very
useful to set the 'cindent' option to
automatically indent the lines. These
commonly useful option settings are
included with Vim in filetype plugins.
You can also add your own, see
|write-filetype-plugin|.
Using indent files When editing programs, the indent of a line can
often be computed automatically.
Vim comes with these indent rules for
a number of filetypes. See
|:filetype-indent-on| and
'indentexpr'.
:set noai
sets no auto indent tt may be smartindent though. Check out the doc and see if you can find something more
http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/indent.html