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There's a really great question and answer about the use of vi registers on stackexchange, but it belongs here...can someone move it here?

I have a queued review request for the count tag. At the time of writing, this tag has 3 questions -- one with an accepted answer, one that's marked as a duplicate of the former, and one for which the tag doesn't really seem appropriate. Frankly, I think there is not much else to ask related to ...

There are two tags ex and ex-mode. However I'm not quite sure what's the difference? Is ex indicates the command-line (ex tool), and ex-mode means working in Ex mode (vim -E)? Isn't it the same? If it is, should we remove questions from ex and stick to ex-mode only? As far as I remember, I ha...

Someone who looks for a Stack Exchange website about Vim may type vim.stackexchange.com directly into the URL bar of their browser. This will get an unhelpful page saying that no such Stack Exchange site exists. Since Vi and Vim Stack Exchange does exist, I propose that the former redirect to the...

Should we enforce, by edit when we see it, a normalized <kbd>-combo norm? Examples of how it is used are: Altv Alt+v Alt+v Alt + v Alt + V … Of those I favor number five, four being second. Assuming it is clear one do not mean Alt + Shift + V (by the capital letter.) Is lower case better? A...

I recently asked a question on SO here asking if I can ask about 'Vim Adventures' here and this is where I was redirected along with Arqade. Is this site ok to ask this here? Thanks in advanced.

I was wondering which is the best way to use syntax folding for HTML files. Specially if it can recognize javascript code within <script> tags. Any clues?

Many answers (and some questions) include information from vim's builtin documentation. I often find myself on google looking for an HTML version of the vim help, so I can link to it in my answers. With this in mind, I have two questions: Is there any way to automatically link :help [key] in ...

VimL: the debatable name for the language in which Vim scripts are written. Do questions regarding VimL belong here or to Stack Overflow? As a programming question, I would say SO, but on the other hand, it would probably get more attention here. If the answer is that they should be asked here,...

See title. I don't get it what's the point ofthis site. What couldI askhere that I cannot askon stackoverflow.com where there's alreadya huge Vimknowledge present?

@romainl has written a great summary of how to use Vim's documentation. I think this should be copied into, or at the very least linked from, the site's official help pages. It should also, if possible, be waved fairly obtrusively in front of users before they ask their first question on the si...

This is probably something a lot of you have already thought about, but it doesn't seem to have been addressed here on meta (or I didn't manage to find the post). A lot of topics, problems and solutions about vi/vim already exist scattered around the various sites of the stackexchange network, m...

General opinion seems to be that vi begins with a lower-case V, and general usage seems to be that proper names that begin with a lower-case letter should continue to do so both in title-case contexts and at the start of sentences. So shouldn't the name/headline of this site be vi and Vim?

A few questions explicitly ask for a solution where the editor performs the task itself without having to resort to external filters/tools. This is either in the main body of the question or in a comment. For example: How to add permanent line numbers to a file? How to reverse the order of line...

Our current /help/on-topic page is just the default boilerplate, and doesn't really help new users learn what kind of questions are on-topic here. It's definitely in need of improvement. What topics should the Help Center cover? I have posted a single Community Wiki answer containing our current...

Going to tour page, it has fictive question and answer. How this can be changed to some more practical examples?

In an answer to a related question about vi-mode in bash, an answerer asked what would be next. Given that the operating system that shall not be named (the one that swaps constantly, even given 8 MB of ram) has been reported as being used as an editor and supports a plugin called evil featuring ...

I recently had a question of mine edited (not complaining), and the change was to remove the two tags search and replace, and add the tag substitute. Now it appeared to me originally that this was an irrelevant distinction, but then I thought that search is actually a stand-alone tag which may h...

The members of Programming Puzzles and Code Golf have made a few Community Promotion Ads in order to promote themselves on other sites: Note: this may or may not be blatant self-promotion come visit our site we want more users or subliminal messaging. A few other sites have them too, such as ...

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?

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?

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?

I'm trying to encourage myself to participate in the private beta of vi.SE, but I have to be honest and say that one thing that holds me back somewhat is the thought that if the gods of SE don't deem the site worthy enough to go into public beta, and ultimately to a fully-fledged SE site, all the...

What's the point of using OS dependend tags such as microsoft-windows, unix and linux? It seems that OS-dependent editors (such as gVim/MacVim) interface related questions are off-topic (this one sounds like it's too, as it ask for X11 integration) which leaves as with plain only vi/vim and the ...

Currently the site is in private beta, so all the questions/links are not accessible by non-users. The site already has over 240 questions and it'll pass 2 weeks soon. When the site would be published and who decide about it? What's still missing? Related: What criteria do we need to meet to ...

The community's thoughts on moderator nominees are apparently considered by SE for appointing moderators pro tempore. They look for members who: Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation. Show an interest in their meta’s community-building activ...

Vipe is a Vim command pipe editor which allows you to run a text editor in the middle of a unix pipeline and edit the data that is being piped between programs. It's something considered to be on topic? It's a stand-alone program, allows you to run a text editor in the middle of a unix pipeline...

This may be a silly question, but I've really tried to find a way to get a digest of the Vi and Vim SE questions sent to my email. I'm interested in following the questions and discussions, but I tend to forget to check the site regularly. If I could get a list of new or updated questions or simi...

Are gVim and MacVim questions related to interface (such as menu, tabs, settings) on topic? Or just plain vim commands?

I am glad to be a part of a new Stack site. I would like to help moderate, design the site, or help in some greater way. I know that SE sites focus on users being the source of power.. But as of right now I do not know nearly as much as other users here -- So I would like to share my power in som...

Using vi in shell is very simple and can be activated by the command: set -o vi or: export EDITOR=vi VISUAL=vi Should vi-style command line commands be on topic?

Sublime Text has vi integration by providing package called Vintage. It is there by default. Are vi commands (Vintage) in Sublime Text editor should be on topic then?

I have found answers to legitimate vi/vim questions in other sites, such as SO, tex.SE, etc. Is it ok to post questions that are already in another SE site? At this point I don't really remember where I found many of the the answers to my questions. Would that change the answer to the above...

I think we should have a tag e.g. minimize-keystrokes for questions that are about doing a particular task in as few keystrokes as possible. Faster way to move a block of text Move vertically to a specific character on a different line How to paste and remove current line Expand a visual select...

I'm a long time vim user, but I just learned recently that I can paste the yanked lines several times. I think most new users wouldn't know this. Is it okay if I ask about this, and answer myself?

It seems like setting up tabs and its spacing in vim should be trivial but; but in IMO it is actually a non trivial task (to get all the settings correct and working together). But I have not seen this question on vim site. Is it covered well on another stack exchange site (that is why nobody as...

I have a whole bunch of questions that I asked when I first started using vim. So I have an answer for them now. So I can keep asking and answering my own questions like: How do I use vim as a diff tool vimdiff and merge conflicts But is there some guidelines on doing this.

Who was this question closed with This question does not appear to be about Vi and Vim family of editors"? How much money has been raised for needy children in Uganda from Vim? It's about Vim it's a specific question It's not opinion based

Look at the following question: Adding emmet plugin to Vim in Windows It seems as if the asker doesn't know how to install a pluign, and though asked a specific question for the plugin he tried to install. I think we should have a question about how to install plugins, with a detailed answer fo...

Jon Ericson makes an interesting point in his recent answer (well, really, just reiterates the same point he's been making for weeks, albeit not an insubstantial one): In order to become a successful site, we need to have a solid reason why asking your Vim questions on vi.SE is considerably bette...

Currently, Folding fails: vim can't find any fold is tagged with folding php. Should we have specific tags for questions about editing source code in a particular programming language? Please vote for one of the proposals below or add a counterproposal of your own.

Do we want to allow questions that are effectively "lists of things"? There have been a number of these questions, for example: Resources for scripting vim with python [on hold] What is an effective way to learn vimscript? [on hold] What would be the most useful online vim resources? [on hold] ...

This is the Vi and Vim site. Do we intend this to be the site for Vi and Vim on the StackExchange network? Do we want to only take questions that do not fit on SO? Let's find some examples. Consider the following: Questions about using vim, such as How can I copy text to the system clipboard f...

Should the use of images in questions and answers be encouraged? I think there are definitely times when it's hard to explain the problem without an image, but at other times it's reasonable to ask a question without having to include an image. What do you think? Should images be encouraged eve...

Here is a question that would seem to have a lot of opinions for answers. Are questions like this ok? It's asking about what commands is ex mode are actually useful. What are Ex commands (and the Ex mode) useful for in modern vim file editing?

This is the first StackExchange site I've been involved in as a private beta. I've heard murky rumours that not all sites make it past this phase; how can I understand what criteria this site will likely have to meet (either quantifiable or not) to graduate past the private beta, assuming that st...

This question on filetypes for Markdown is close to being closed as a duplicate of this question on the .sage/Python extension type. To be fair, both the theme of the question ((associated a filetype with an extension) and the answers are very similar. Is it OK for this type of duplicate to be ...

In my short time at AskUbuntu, I have seen software recommendation questions ("What IDEs are available?", "What rich text editors are available?" [that one was actually asked, answered and upvoted quite recently], etc.) pop up fairly regularly. AU already has quite a few of such questions with ex...

Tmux is often used in conjunction with vim, and sometimes I don't even know if the problem I'm experiencing is with vim, tmux, or my terminal. So, is it ok to ask questions about tmux, or the terminal?

Some Stack Exchange sites seem to have custom formatting shortcuts. For example Code Review has \$ delimiters for cool MathJax expressions, which doesn't work on Stack Overflow. Since keystrokes will be very frequently used here, it would be good and important to make this kind of formatting as e...