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I would like to nominate @CarpetSmoker as my first choice for moderator.
His high reputation makes him an obvious candidate, but that's not my only consideration in making this nomination. Not only has he been busy earning points on the main site, he has also been highly active in chat and meta...
We have a visual-mode tag and a visual-select tag.
The problem is that the term "visual mode" is overloaded: there's visual mode and there's the :visual command to return from Ex mode to Normal mode.
How shall we resolve this mess?
Now we've made it into public beta (yay!), in a similar vein to this question, what are the criteria (objective or subjective) we need to hit to have this site exit public beta and become a fully-fledged SE site?
Ummm... Why are we trying to make so many synonyms? Anyone typing in 'diff' will see 'vimdiff'. We just need to get rid of 'diff'.
Now that we're out of private beta, it should be harder for tags to be created. So we should get fewer new duplicates. We just need to clean up the old ones.
user4704
4:57 PM
@derobert What's wrong with having the synonym then?
Though hypothetically maybe we need diff for something else in the future. (Say, the Unix diff command. That's how vim patches are made—or at least the format they're in, for example.) Or maybe another vi-clone has a diff mode, then its weird (and probably confusing) that we have diff -> vimdiff.
@Carpetsmoker Thanks, I don't have the rep yet to edit without sending it through the queue.
Unless you are a moderator. I suppose at this point, since we're in public beta, nobody can even make synonyms at all any more? Do the rep limits go up to the usual levels at public beta?
I'm editing my .vimrc file, and I am including comments. When I have a comment like this:
" example comment
And then hit enter at the end of the line after finishing the comment, the next line is automatically set up as a comment (the quotes are automatically inserted):
" example comment
"
...
@derobert I agree that tag should be harder to create. By preemptively creating synonyms, we can prevent certain tags from appearing because they will be canonicalized immediately.
@200_success I think it's different. vimrc seems to be used mostly for questions about configuring vim (:set foo, autocmd, etc), and filetype-vim is about the /usr/share/vim/vim74/*/vim.vim files
How do I comment out multiple in visual mode selected lines? How do I make it language specific?
For example, if the first 4 lines are selected:
def foo(a,b):
for each in (a,b):
print each
return a+b
print "2"
The operation of a command/macro should result in this (in python):...
@200_success Sure. The asker makes a first stab at tagging, but ultimately tags belong to the community. I'm not sure we really need a tag for every option and command, I doubt it.
(Of course, there is :help formatting, which is about something else. So the name could be tricky.)
Well, actually, related, and it mentions formatoptions, so...
vi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges says add tags is currently 150, BTW. So that's higher than it was, I think, but not as high as it'd be on a non-beta site.
In my experience, 150 is about right for a new beta site, but too low for a mature beta site. Nevertheless, there will be some "problematic" tags that we have to manage actively, or blacklist, or preempt by synonymizing.
I've defined mappings in my vimrc to automatically enter close parentheses and braces when I enter opening ones with inoremap ( ()<esc>i.
I'd like to do the same for " and ', but only when the cursor currently isn't inside a string - as inside a string ' is probably an apostrophe rather than a s...
i thought of using syn* functions and detect if inside string. But stuck. Is it OK to to ask how to fix / write a script (with mapping) related to another question?
I have a problem in Vim, and I think it may be in my vimrc file (or have been told it could be my vimrc file).
How do I verify this? And if it is my vimrc file, how do I know what exactly it is?
I have a problem in Vim, and I think it may be in my vimrc file (or have been told it could be my vimrc file).
How do I verify this? And if it is my vimrc file, how do I know what exactly it is?
I have a problem in Vim, and I think it may be in my vimrc file (or have been told it could be my vimrc file).
How do I verify this? And if it is my vimrc file, how do I know what exactly it is?
I was recently working on project with GTK2 in vim (with OmniCppComplete plugin). I I generated tags with
ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q --sort=yes /usr/include/gkt-2.0/
I did so for cairo and other libraries I needed. Everything was fine, I had all suggestions for all funct...
Over at Programmers.SE we found and closed an old off-topic question about Vim too old to migrate. Is there any interest in re-asking it here? programmers.stackexchange.com/q/110160/22815
Fair enough, someone in Prog.SE chat mentioned earlier it might help generate content and get you guys out of beta. I haven't really analyzed the question but it did have some decent answers.
I like the smart-indent feature of Vim, it allows me to create well-indented code blocks.
I regularly copy/paste code in to buffers, but that code is often poorly formatted.
What would be ideal is to "re-process" the code through the smart-indent system.
Is such a thing possible?
For example,...
@Carpetsmoker if they're off-topic on the source site, it can be a way to save them. But it's impossible anyway: questions that are more than 60 days old cannot be migrated, even by mods.
I certainly won't be motivated to answer them, since there is no problem to solve (the OP is long gone) unless they're really, really good questions, in which case they were probably migrated to SO a while ago...
I really need to learn how to write better questons. <sigh>
user114359
11:41 PM
The important thing is that if someone googles a problem and a SE question pops up, the googler gets a good answer. Since there are similar questions here, I linked to those two questions on the original (closed) question at Prog.SE.
There are also some questions that exist both on vi.SE and on SO (often older questions), where we have better answers than what's on SO ... I considered leaving comments on a few of them, but didn't want to "spam" vi.SE too much all over SO ...
I would like to nominate @CarpetSmoker as my first choice for moderator.
His high reputation makes him an obvious candidate, but that's not my only consideration in making this nomination. Not only has he been busy earning points on the main site, he has also been highly active in chat and meta...
Now we've made it into public beta (yay!), in a similar vein to this question, what are the criteria (objective or subjective) we need to hit to have this site exit public beta and become a fully-fledged SE site?
I'm editing my .vimrc file, and I am including comments. When I have a comment like this:
" example comment
And then hit enter at the end of the line after finishing the comment, the next line is automatically set up as a comment (the quotes are automatically inserted):
" example comment
"
...
How do I comment out multiple in visual mode selected lines? How do I make it language specific?
For example, if the first 4 lines are selected:
def foo(a,b):
for each in (a,b):
print each
return a+b
print "2"
The operation of a command/macro should result in this (in python):...
I have a problem in Vim, and I think it may be in my vimrc file (or have been told it could be my vimrc file).
How do I verify this? And if it is my vimrc file, how do I know what exactly it is?
I was recently working on project with GTK2 in vim (with OmniCppComplete plugin). I I generated tags with
ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q --sort=yes /usr/include/gkt-2.0/
I did so for cairo and other libraries I needed. Everything was fine, I had all suggestions for all funct...
Is it possible to convert tabs to spaces, while maintaining text alignment?
Simply replacing only works usefully when there are no leading characters.
