I am editing a python file. My current settings for tabstop are as follows(just experimenting things): ~/.vimrc: set tabstop=4 ~/.vim/ftplugin/p ...

I've put some language-agnostic baseline settings in /etc/vimrc, which serve as default for users unless a user overrides them. Where is the canonica ...

I have found several topics that come close to matching my issue but, does not completely solve my problem. I have read about, and tried researching, ...

I found no answers or questions to this after some Google searches, but hopefully somebody else might see the use for this aswell. I think it would b ...

I'm created a custom file format, .cheat, for my cheat sheets, and in that format only I am highlighting alternating rows to make it easy to see which ...

I'm confused about the order in which Vim loads plugin files, and seem to be finding mixed answers online. Some answers seem to suggest that vimrc is ...

It seems like there's some odd caching-like behavior going on for files that I have already opened once in Vim. I have a file foo.txt that I opened, a ...

I started to use the ftplugin. This is basically working, except for bundle. If I start gvim with a file that has no specific filetype I can use all m ...

When editing Git commits in Vim, I'd like to automatically split the window on open so that I can edit the commit message in the top pane while keepin ...

I'm using spf13's vim distribution https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim. I have been trying to use 2 spaces instead of 4 spaces for .js files, for that ...

the ftplugin for vim *.inf files defaults to inform which says something about a Z-machine. Needless to say, this provides the wrong syntax highlighti ...

I have a common set of commands that I want to run in several different Vim filetype plugins. For instance, for html, xml, and xhtml, there are severa ...

I want to run some vim commands anytime I create a new file of a specific file type, sort of combination of the BufNewFile and FileType autocommand ev ...

all is in the title... I did a ftplugin to live preview an html file (php and css also) with a browser, but now, when I open a markdown file, the brow ...

I am learing Vim and I want have set it up as IDE by mapping F5 key to compilation command which is decided by the filetype. My ~/.vim/ftplugin/c.vim ...

I've been wrestling with macvim for the past few days using an ftplugin. I can't seem to solve my issue, despite numerous attempts. MacVim is install ...

just found out, that vim runs all ftplugins that starts with the same name. For example: Detected filetype = ocr These files have different version ...

I am tyring to install perlomni.vim so I can use auto function lookup in a gvim window. I have tried using pathhogen and vundle for trying to configu ...

I code CSS and Python and for CSS I have the following little time saver This is great until I start coding in Python. Every time I hit : I get an ...

Let's say I load up a python file in vim. A quick check of :scriptnames shows that my ~/.vim/ftplugin/python/python.vim file loads as expected. One of ...