What is the best way to share configs or even plugins between Vim and Neovim? Symlinks? Can I change the directories in the .vimrc to use only one symlink? After migrating my vim config to Neovim's default location, this seems to work almost: ln -s ~/.local/share/nvim/site ~/.vim ln -s .config/nvim/init.vim .vimrc

The .vimrc is sourced from both Vim & Gvim. This file will allow you to set up a common set of CLI & GUI plugins in a single location (shared by both the CLI Vim & Gvim) The .gvimrc is used by Gvim only and will be sourced by Gvim only after the …

Jan 3, 2021 · Create a new file called ".vimrc" using the touch command: touch .vimrc Open the ".vimrc" file in a text editor. Add the following line to the ".vimrc" file, replacing "path/to/.vimrc" with the actual path to the ".vimrc" file: set vim.vimrc.path=path/to/.vimrc

From prior research, I found that the quick and dirty solution is entering the following in my .vimrc file: set paste. However, those who suggested that command said that set paste affects other settings. (Off the top of my head, I forget.) I would like to know what option I can set that simply pastes without extra indentation.

Is it possible to remap the Esc key to another key in Vim? When I'm using Vim in a full screen VMware vSphere web client console window and I press the Esc key to exit edit mode, it also takes me ...

To make this persist across Vim sessions, put it into your ~/.vimrc configuration, and restart Vim. The original <C-d> command will still work; you've just created an alias. As you've defined an alternative, you could remap that key now, or (if it bothers you, if you frequently mistakenly trigger it) turn it off by mapping to the special <Nop ...

to your .vimrc. The 'directory' option contains a list of directories which Vim will use to try and store the swap file. The ^= syntax for :set prepends the directory name to the head of the list, so Vim will check that directory first.

Based on :help startup, vimrc files (section 3) are loaded before plugins (section 4), so it makes sense that you wouldn't be able to use plugin-defined functions in your ~/.vimrc.

Feb 22, 2016 · It is a good idea to first define your own categories in your .vimrc (like a list with sublists and subsublists) and add all your plugins/settings/functions to the respective categories. Combined with customized folding this can work great: The example above shows possible categories that I find helpful to structure my .vimrc. It uses the ...

Nov 2, 2023 · If my vimrc file has the following: inoremap ( ()&lt;Left&gt; which essentially auto-closes a (, changing it to () whenever I type ( in insert mode. How do I undo the change when I don't want th...