**The goal is to remap CapsLock to Esc in Vim, installed on Ubuntu** (console only, no Desktop Environment). This Ubuntu system is installed on Virtual Private Server. I'm logging to this server using Putty, from my home laptop with Windows 10. And everybody are talking about mapping this CapsLock key to Esc in Vim, but I was unable to find actual line, that needs 2 be written in $HOME/.vimrc file. This is what I've tried myself, but none of this works, except for the first line adding row numbers:

set number

inoremap  
inoremap  
inoremap

The goal is to remap CapsLock to Esc only in Vim, not the whole Ubuntu server. I've checked and CapsLock works fine in Vim, and makes UpperCase when locked. I've searched so many places like: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Mapping_keys_in_Vim_-_Tutorial_(Part_1) all 3 parts of this guide and here as well. Like everything is written there: mapping "ii", "jj", "jk", "jw" different Ctrl and Shift combinations. Everything except CapsLock to Esc remap. ??? Why ??? Why is it so hard to remap CapsLock to Esc in Vim? It's almost my question, but unfortunately on Windows OS. From the comments below my question I gather that mapping CapsLock to Esc is impossible in Vim alone. I've also read this thread: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/165477/how-to-use-capslock-instead-of-escape-in-vim And the answer that's accepted states: "For remapping in the console, if your distro uses systemd, you can use a custom keyboard layout in /etc/vconsole.conf as described on the Arch Wiki ." I guess Ubuntu uses systemd, **so I'm ready to accept the answer that's going to map CapsLock to Esc key in whole Ubuntu installed on my VPS,** providing my home, Windows machine key mappings, remain unchanged. I've run this:

michal@localhost:~$ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: us
       X11 Model: pc105

**What should I do next?** I think I don't have this file /etc/vconsole.conf on my Ubuntu VPS. Should I create it myself, or should it be there by default?

Is there a command I can put in the .vimrc to make gvim look like vim's setup in the terminal? Same back ground, syntax highlighting, colors, and font. To add to my question, is there a may for gvim to follow vim's vimrc? That is, there layouts and actions are identical?

I need your help! I am trying to set up a specific font and font size in my

~/.vimrc

file using

guifont=Monospace:h15

, but nothing is changing no matter if I put 12 or 20 in the size column. I've tried several fonts also, but it seems like changes just not apply - after writing the file and reopening it, size of the font and the font itself stays the same. Also

:set guifont=*

command doesn't show me anything. Here is my

.vimrc

file:

set nocompatible
filetype off

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()

Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'
Plugin 'nyngwang/nvimgelion'

syntax on

set termguicolors

set guifont=Monospace:h20

call vundle#end()
filetype plugin indent on

au BufNewFile, BufRead *.py
	\ set tabstop=4
	\ set softtabstop=4
	\ set shiftwidth=4
	\ set expandtab
	\ set autoindent
	\ set fileformat=unix

set laststatus=2

set wrap

set encoding=utf-8

vnoremap  :w !xclip -i -sel c

How to set up a specific font in my Vim configuration file? Thank you for your help.

I set the expandtab option to on, but still I don't get spaces when I click tab, but I get actual tab. This is how I set it: set expandtab set shiftwidth=4 set softtabstop=4 First I thought as this question says that a plugin is override it, but I executed: :verbose set expandtab? and indeed I get that last set is the line in my vimrc how can I solve it?

I sync my [.vimrc file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denten/.dotfiles/master/.vimrc) between two machines, one running Debian testing and the other Ubuntu. On Debian everything works fine. On Ubuntu, the fold column is gray instead of black, even though black is specified:

: hi FoldColumn ctermbg=Black ctermfg=Black

If I comment out line 213, the fold column turns black, but then foldmarkers default to white (the whole point is to hide them black on black). If i just do:

: hi FoldColumn ctermfg=Black

The FoldColumn is gray again. I do not find plugin conflicts with

-r "FoldColumn" .vim/

. Any ideas?

I'm currently using Vim and I'm looking for a way to shift the screen horizontally by one character column at a time, similar to how Ctrl + E shifts the screen up vertically by one row.

On both my new Debian and Raspberry Pi: VIM version 9.0.1499 This vim is quite different and irksome to a user of the version that's been "standard issue" on Fedora for over a decade now. The current version I'm using is: version 9.0.1872 The biggest issue is insert mode. I'm used to just cursoring where I want to go and continuing on. But in this version doing that just creates a lot of stuff (surely they're improperly interpreted escape characters that represent the cursor keys I'm typing) that has to then be deleted after, of course, escaping out of it and start a new insert. It's a HUGE time sink. ... There are likely other less obvious differences I haven't tripped over yet - I'm a newbie to both Debian and R. Pi. Moving over my personal .vimrc hasn't helped. It COULD be just a .vimrc issue - I'm ignorant about what impact that might have. So, I'm unsure how to proceed. ... nano just doesn't do it for me, too slow! I guess it's like anything else; familiarity! So... New version? Different vimrc contents? If so what cures this insert problem? I presume it's new-version time, but if so, what version?

If I open a large file (using that term generously, like ~1000 lines is enough) in vim, and jump somewhere, I sometimes get highlighting that ignores text off screen. For example, if I jump to the end of a large while loop (in sh highlighting, but I have had the same type of problem with C highlighting), the "done" will be marked red as if it does not actually terminate a loop. It is like the program is not looking far enough back to properly contextualize what I am currently looking at. On the other hand, if I go to the start of the loop and 'j' my way down, it will properly highlight. Is there any way to fix this?

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

I'm using vim on macOS, I did different tests.  Backspace doesn't work in vim with my ~/.vimrc. I saw that when I remove my ~/.vimrc file everything is ok, but whatever I write in it (any writable character or a set nu or anything.  When I :wq and come back to anyfile with vim, I cannot use backspace anymore. I tried to brew uninstall vim and reinstall it many times, and it doesn't change this behaviour.  Without ~/.vimrc file, everything's perfect, but with my ~/.vimrc it doesn't behave as expected.

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 using: :vsp :terminal j :q Alternatively, is there a way I could add it as a command in my *.vimrc*, like so: command Vterm :vsp | :terminal | j | :q The command above chokes on trying to execute j, opens a new vim split with the following: > executing job failed: No such file or directory Just having: command Vterm :vsp | :terminal Works fine, but leaves the original split.

On searching how to set syntax highlighting on in vim, I found this page which says that vimrc should have the following line syntax on **Why is it not something like set syntax on?** Like we have set nu, set ai etc. With set syntax on, I get this error $ vi syntax= Error detected while processing /home/lazer/.vimrc: line 30: E518: Unknown option: on Hit ENTER or type command to continue and with set syntax, I get this $ vi syntax= Hit ENTER or type command to continue

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 the exact same directive into my user's .vimrc file it works. Is this expected behaviour? Did I miss something? Has anyone a solution which doesn't involve managing a .vimrc file for each and every user? Thanks in advance! I am on Debian 10, fully updated by the way.

On a brand new debian installation, when no ~/.vimrc is present, vim shows all files in the current directory when trying to open another file for editing in normal/command mode, as shown below: However, when a ~/.vimrc is present, even an empty one, I suddenly cannot see other files in the same directory. I am looking for the vim option that I have accidentally disabled, so that I can re-enable this behavior.

I installed vim version 7.4.1689 in my linux mint 18. I opened any file with vim but after switching between modes on the status bar it is not showing anything like which mode I am currently in. I searched everywhere for the solution found one but it did not worked. The solution given was to use the command: :set showmode

in /.vimrc file, I did that but nothing happened, can somebody please help me to solve this issue.

In my ~/.vim/vimrc, I have:

set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4

and when I edit a plain text file, that is respected. However, when I edit a CMake file - these both becomes 8. I tried looking for the cause of this change, but couldn't figure it out: * Nothing in /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/cmake.vim seems to be related to tab stops, or to include another vim file. * Same for /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/cmake.vim. * The CMakeLists.txt files I'm editing have no modeline. What's causing this? Is there a definition I've missed? And - can I override it somehow?

I'd like to write a function that toggles the quicklist and when closing it, it returns to the window it was in before the quicklist opening. I tried to improve some function I found but it does not work as expected:

function! ToggleQuickFix()
    if empty(filter(getwininfo(), 'v:val.quickfix'))
        copen 20
    else
        call feedkeys("^W^P")
        cclose
    endif
endfunction

Sometimes when I'm at work, I want to commit and push changes to my own projects on GitHub. So I do a lot of git config user.email to make sure that I don't *commit* with my email at the company and that I in fact use my own personal email. Now I have export GIT_EDITOR=vim in my ~/.zshrc file, so that every time I type git commit, vim opens up and I see a file like this:

my actual commit message
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
#
# On branch master
# Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
#
# Changes to be committed:
#         modified:    vim/.vimrc
#

Is there a way that I can modify these comments? So that it shows something like this:

my actual commit message
# Email: me@my.site
#
# On branch master
# Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
#
# Changes to be committed:
#         modified:    vim/.vimrc
#

I can make netrw use the tree view by default by adding this to my vimrc: let g:netrw_liststyle=3 But I can't figure out how to expand sub-directories by default, is there a way?

My question is a spinoff from this previous question 6 months ago, so to get more details and see how I've installed Vim Plug have a look here . Currently I wanted to add this extension. https://github.com/mattn/emmet-vim Here's my .vimrc file.

1
  2 syntax on
  3 map  :source ~/.vimrc
  4
  5 set background=light       " set background = set bg
  6
  7 " colorscheme desert
  8 colorscheme elflord
  9 " colorscheme slate
 10 " colorscheme pablo
 11 " colorscheme koehler
 12 " colorscheme murphy
 13 " colorscheme industry
 14 " colorscheme torte
 15 " colorscheme default
 16 " colorscheme morning
 17 " colorscheme ron
 18 "
 19 set background=dark        " Setting up background=dark, makes text lighter
 20 "
 21 "
 22 "
 23 set nocompatible           " Set compatibility to Vim only
 24 set wildmenu               " Enable Vim's builtin auto completion engine
 25 set ignorecase          " By default searching in Vin using / command is case-sensitive.
 26                      " Use 'set ignorecase' to set searching in Vim case insensitive.
 27                      " Use 'set smartcase' to make search case insensitive if you type the search pattern using lower case only.
 28                            "
 29 set number              " Show line numbers.  Opposite is set nonumber.
 30 "
 31 set shiftwidth=3        " Set tabulator size to 4
 32 set tabstop=3           " Set tabulator size to 4
 33 set softtabstop=3       " Set tabulator size to 4
 34 "
 35 set wrap              " Automatically wrap text that extends beyond the screen length
 36 "
 37 set laststatus=2        " Show status bar
 38 "
 39 set encoding=utf-8         " Force encoding
 40 set list             " Shows hidden characters
 41 set nolist              " Hide invisible characters
 42 "
 43 "
 44 "
 45                      " Call the .vimrc.plug file
 46 if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc.plug"))
 47     source /home/michal/.vimrc.plug
 48 endif
 49

And here's my .vimrc.plug file:

1 " Plugins will be downloaded under the specified directory.
  2 call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
  3
  4 " Fugitive Vim Github Wrapper
  5 Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
  6 " Emmet Vim
  7 Plug 'mattn/emmet-vim'
  8
  9 call plug#end()

Both of these files are located in my user directory /home/michal/, like so:

michal@ubuntu:~$ ls -lah /home/michal/.vim*
-rw------- 1 michal michal  20K Jun 21 23:23 /home/michal/.viminfo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 michal michal 1.7K Jun 21 23:12 /home/michal/.vimrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 michal michal  203 Jun 21 23:09 /home/michal/.vimrc.plug
-rw-rw-r-- 1 michal michal  110 Dec 14  2022 /home/michal/.vimrc.plug.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    12K Jun 21 23:53 /home/michal/.vimrc.plug.swp

When I execute the command :PlugInstall while I run Vim as michal user, everything works fine. But when I open Vim using sudo vim and then try to run :PlugInstall, I get E492: Not an editor command: PlugInstall error. Why is that? I'm using Vim 95/100 times using sudo vim filename, therefore I need all those plugins I install with Vim Plug, to work in sudo mode.