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.vimrc is the primary configuration file for the VIM text editor

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Opening a vertical terminal in Vim 8.1

Vim 8.1 added the :terminal command, which opens up a new bash terminal as a split. However, it always seems to be a horizontal split, and I prefer vertical splits. Is there a way to open a terminal as a vertical split without…
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How to automatically strip trailing spaces on save in Vi and Vim?

Is there a .vimrc setting to automatically remove trailing whitespace when saving a file? Ideally (to be safe) I would like to only have this functionality for certain files, e.g. *.rb
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Is it possible to create and use menus in (terminal-based) vim?

I'm setting up virtualized Linux boxes (as local development servers) for developers at a company that is primarily Windows-based, and some of developers make negative cracks about vim (among other things). (It seems to them to represent Linux/Unix…
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How do I highlight the current line and the cursor in .vimrc?

I am trying to highlight the current line as well as the cursor position in Vim. Here's my .vimrc: set cursorline hi CursorLine ctermbg=8 ctermfg=15 "8 = dark gray, 15 = white hi Cursor ctermbg=15 ctermfg=8 The problem I'm experiencing is that the…
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VIM commenting out what I paste

I got this when trying to copy this gist on vim: https://gist.github.com/w0ng/3278077 I notice the same behaviour everywhere: If I paste something that includes a comment, everything that follows the comment is pasted commented. Maybe it has…
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vimrc - how to block comment?

I don't want to comment lines of text in a text file or code. I am looking for inserting block comments in a .vimrc file. To insert a single line comment " is used, for example: " remove spaces and tabs as well at the end of line automatically…
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Disable or remove default vim keybinding

Is there a way to disable or remove a default vim keybinding? For example, if I wanted (shift-k) to do nothing, how would I achieve this?
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Disabling vim visual mode in /etc/vim/vimrc does not work

I found plenty of questions regarding disabling visual mode in vim but none that tackles my particular problem: I added set mouse-=a to my /etc/vim/vimrc file to disable visual mode for good. Thing is: That seems to do nothing. However when I put…
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Configure shortcut on Vim to save file

I was wondering is it possible to create a custom shortcut in vim or vi to save open file? For example, CtrlS instead of typing each time :w? Thanks!
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Can .vimrc be divided into multiple files?

Say I have some hundred custom re-mappings with iab for Java and some other hundred or so re-mappings for Haskell, then I'd want do divide these into different files to make it more manageable. What I'm looking for is to create something like…
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Stop vim pasting selections as text!

I have been using VI and VIM for years (30 or more) (in xterms, not its own window, gvim) and I have a huge library of vim commands that I give vim using the mouse middle button as a selection. For example I would often do things like... vi…
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Any way to provide a separate vimrc file just for 1 session

I would like to know, if there is a way in vim/vi to provide a different vimrc file. I am looking at managing 2 different vimrc files. For the contents I checkout/checkin in version control I want to use different set of commands and not the normal…
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Can I remap ctrl-j and ctrl-k in vim?

I would like to remap ctrl + j to ctrl + d, and ctrl + k to ctrl + u for moving half a page down and up in normal mode. I have tried with noremap noremap in my .vimrc, but the key function does not change. I read on the vim…
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Can vim syntax highlight HTML color codes with their color?

It it possible to setup syntax highlighting in vim so that an html color sequence is colored in that color; e.g. #FF0000 would show up as red. I'd also be okay with it underlining the text that color like Visual Studio does. So basically I'd be…
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Powerline in vim errors setting up

I installed powerline using pip install as per their installation recommendations. I have it working fine in both zsh as a prompt and tmux as a statusline yet I can't get it to work in vim. When I add the following to my vimrc: python from…
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