gVim is a powerful, feature-rich and highly configurable text editor
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Mapping Windows key in Gvim
How do I map the Windows key in Gvim? I've tried referencing it as T as suggested here and it doesn't seem to work.
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Anti-aliasing in Gvim
Apparently there's no anti-aliasing in vim-gtk in Xubuntu so the console version looks better than GUI one. Is there a way to turn it on?
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Problem installing latest vim on ubuntu 12.10
I am trying to install the latest version of vim on Ubuntu 12.10. But when I use this command
sudo apt-get install vim
It gives me such an error
How to solve this?
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how can I change file association globally?
gedit is set by default to open about any source file. I've gone through the file properties and changed default application to VIM for C and C++ files.
I'd need to do this for any source file I open ...
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Is Vim-gnome FuzzyFinder plugin broken since Ubuntu 13.04?
After Ubuntu 13.04 installation I simply unzip an archive with all my gvim setup, ie.
.vim/
.vim-fuf
.viminfo
.vimrc
After doing a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04, I unzipped my Vim config as usual. ...
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What is the difference between the different vim packages available in Ubuntu
The difference between vim-gtk and vim-gnome has been discussed here.
Ubuntu usually offers more than these two options for vim :
vim-nox
vim-athena
vim-*
It is not clear which one depends on ...
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Gvim always starts in the home directory!
I use gvim to edit my tex files and it is the default editor. So I just double click on the tex files to edit them and that opens them with Gvim. However, the working directory for Gvim is always the ...
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gvim doesn't show up in unity apps menu
if i enter "vim" in unity search (after pressing Super key") nothing shows up.
I can only start gvim by using Alt+F2 and entering gvim. Why does this happen?
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Does vim support unicode?
I recently changed my system language to Tamil (a language used in India) from English. While I was enjoying Ubuntu in Tamil, my favorite editor vim has run into an issue because of the system ...
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Change default window size of an application
When I start gvim, it will occupy roughly the top-left quarter of my screen. However I think this is too small. Is it possible to make it start bigger by default?
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How can I fix GVim Window size?
This might not be a bug, but I've installed the Vim plugin package, spf13-vim.
My GVim window looks like this screenshot, which seems too big:
This might not be an issue with spf13-vim, since ...
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How to edit files directly on server with GVim when ssh is mounted from Dolphin?
I would like to use GVim to edit external files that are accessed through Dolphin.
I have an external server with files to be modified
I access the server using SSH using Dolphin's built-in module
I ...
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Using Vim as external editor using only one instance
I'm playing a game that has a scripting language. It has a button to open the scripts in external editor. You can set the command that will trigger the editor from within the game's interface.
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How to remove anomalous warning after closing gvim
I have added the function gvim(){ /usr/bin/gvim -f "$@" & true; } to my .bashrc file.
but I still have a problem.
I open file 111 with gvim and close it and
a warning like [10]+ ... /usr/bin/gvim ...
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Shortcut Keys to Launch gVim
I am using Unity
I added the shortcut to open gVim, using keyboard->Shortcuts->Custom shortcuts
So now Ctrl+G opens gVim,
I want to launch it in a way that the selected file is opened in gVim after ...
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I can't install vim on my terminal
whenever i try to execute vim, the terminal shows this:
The program 'vim' can be found in the following packages:
* vim
* vim-gnome
* vim-tiny
* vim-athena
* vim-gtk
* vim-nox
Try: sudo apt-get ...
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Vim disables ibus IME — is this a bug?
I'm using ibus IME to input Japanese text into GVim. I have the following Vim script that I source when GVim starts up:
autocmd InsertLeave * :call bug#onInsertLeave()
function! bug#onInsertLeave()
...
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“Timeout was reached” error when opening file with gvim
I am new to linux Ubuntu 12.04. Every time I open a file with the gvim editor it gives me following warning:
** (gvim:4620): WARNING **: Unable to create Ubuntu Menu Proxy: Timeout was reached
What ...
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Devanagari characters do not render properly in gvim
Devnagari characters do not render properly in gvim. They appear just as they do when typed in vim running in a terminal (consonants and vowels separated.)
Is there any way we can make vim handle ...
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How do I fix the “Cannot source a directory: $HOME/.vimrc” error which pops up when I open GVim?
I created the $HOME/.vimrc folder manually. When I delete the folder the error does not appear.
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How can I put gVim in my gnome-shell favorites?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-shell and I would like to have gVim in the favorites bar.
How can I put it there? I can't find it under applications but it is installed.
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Gvim issue! gvim switch to workspaces after invocation.
I've just switched from Arch Linux to Ubuntu 12.04 as my OS and I am in the process of setting my fresh Ubuntu installation, and I've to edit some files and what not to tweak some somethings, but, ...
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Can't install Gvim
I've installed Gvim and synaptic package manager on 12.04, Gvim had a warning each time I ran it from terminal. So I removed it and tried to install again but came with the following error from ...
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Why does it take so long to start gvim?
When I start gvim:
$ date; /usr/bin/gvim; date
Tue May 29 10:45:45 CST 2012
** (gvim:6030): WARNING **: Unable to create Ubuntu Menu Proxy: Timeout was reached
Tue May 29 10:46:11 CST 2012
To stop ...
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How do I make gvim start on desktop?
I mean, whenever I start and save file using gVim it save in home directory. This is annoying because each time I save any file using any program then I save it on Desktop first, and then categorize ...
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Keyboard shortcuts gone from menus in some programs in Ubuntu 12.04
I have noticed that keyboard shortcuts from GVim and Inkscape are gone from the menus of those programs in Ubuntu 12.04.
In Ubuntu 10.04 these shortcuts were displayed in the menus.
Are there ways ...
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How to get global application menu for gvim?
Gvim does not have a global menu (appmenu / application menu) in 12.04,
and when starting gvim from a terminal,
the following warning appears in the terminal after 25 seconds:
** (gvim:20320): ...
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How do I compile the latest gvim from source
I have found that I need to compile the lastest gvim due to a bug I have reported, but how do I proceed?
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How to skip to create Ubuntu Menu in status bar? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get global menu for gvim?
When I type gvim in the terminal, I wait for ~20 seconds, then I get this error message:
** (gvim:30499): WARNING **: Unable to create ...
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gVIM has too much space between characters
I installed ubuntu 12.04 lts yesterday, and didn't change any system setting, but gvim can't get correct font display, there's too much space between character.
Screeshot :
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How can I customize Vim for web development and programming?
I tried already to find something for my question in [askubuntu.com] , but nothing was answering my needs. So, what i want is build vim as a very powerful and useful editor for html,css, javascript, ...
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How do I customise the stylesheet that GVim uses for displaying Vala code? [closed]
In the following code examples in GVim, the keywords are shown as bold. How to disable the use of bold and just make them use the same regular font in GVim?
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gVim always opens in workspace #4
I'm a Windows guy who recently switched to Ubuntu ... I use gVim for programming. Every time I launch gVim from the applications menu or from the right-click context menu, it opens in workspace #4, no ...
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Is there a dictionary feature in VIM
I use vim for pretty much all my typing work. I was wondering if there was a feature that would use an offline dictionary and whenever I typed
:def Ubuntu
It would give me the definition of the ...
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Detachable menus in gvim are not clickable
You can detach the menus in gvim with the scissors symbol. This works, but I cannot click any of the items then.
Is there a way to fix this?
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GVIM 7.3 exits with error information on Ubuntu 11.10 AMD64 [closed]
I installed GVIM 7.3 from Ubuntu Software Center. I can successfully run it in a terminal but after it exits, warning messages will show in that terminal. I've tried to solve it but, no effect.
Can ...
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Mouse disappears over gvim after installing NERDTree
I installed NERDTree and now the mouse disappears over gvim. Is there any .vimrc setting that would fix this?
Launchpad Bug
Same question @Stack Overflow
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How to install gvim?
I have done the following:
sudo apt-get install vim-gnome
But I get the following:
vim-gnome : Depends: libruby1.8 (>= 1.8.7.352) but 1.8.6.111-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct ...
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Focus gvim when opening a new file
I'm trying to switch from a mac dev environment to a linux dev environment, but I'm having a few problems. One of them is gvim. I would like to be able to double click a file in nautilus and then have ...
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Shortcuts in gvim
I'm using gvim for text editing.
Some shortcuts are listed as
Cut +y
Paste "+gP
However those precise key combinations do not work so I suppose that + and g might be abbreviations for other ...
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Keyboard lag when starting gvim
After I upgraded to 11.10, I've had a weird problem with gvim. Every time I start gvim, all my keyboard input to gvim is delayed by several seconds.
This problem usually goes away after attempting to ...
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gVim dissapears when minimized and no way to maximize again
I am using gVim, installed using apt-get, and whenever I minimize the window it gets lost. The program is executing because I can see it in the monitor, but there is no way to bring back the editor. ...
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Compiling vim-gnome with ruby support
I followed this blog post to compile gvim with ruby support. However, when I make, I get this error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby-static
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
link.sh: Linking failed
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How to remove gVim's fat bottom border? (and resize grip)
So my gVim has this annoying bottom border:
I wish it didn't and looked more like gnome-terminal for example:
Is there any way for gVim to look like that?
UPDATE: There is! Here's a screenshot ...
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Gvim gives warning: 'Unable to register window with path'
When I open gvim to edit a file, after about 10 or 15 seconds, the terminal window from which I typed gvim foo.txt gives the error:
** (gvim:2581): WARNING **: Unable to register window with path ...
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Setting up Filezilla with gvim editor
I want to edit ftp files from filezilla, with gvim
i open options > associated File types in Filezilla and i have =
. /usr/bin/gedit
thtml /usr/bin/gedit
php /usr/bin/gedit
so i should replace by ...
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gVim maximized with a gray line like status line
When I maximize gVim, at the bottom of the window i see about 20 pixels of gray line. To the right there is just 4 pixels of the same gray from top to bottom.
I had the same gray before 11.04, but at ...
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Using gvim as editor for Thunderbird
Can I somehow use gvim to compose my email messages in Thunderbird?
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Difference between vim-gtk and vim-gnome
How are the packages vim-gtk and vim-gnome different from each other? I've tried both and the resulting Gvim feels the same (to me). If there is no difference, why are both packages maintained?
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gvim configuration does not work like it should
I have a little problem with my vim config.
This what I got in my home/user/.gvimrc
syntax enable "Enable syntax hl
colorscheme peaksea
set background=dark
set gfn=Inconsolata:h11
set nonu
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