^ denotes char under cursor for vim Please dont answer with T motion because it will require me to know the last character , which helps me but I want to know if there is any other way I have a line of text: these are test words now if I want to delete the… Read More How do I delete a word and previous white space in VIM?

I’m a total noob with vim (nvim), I’ve been using it for a month and I love it! But there’s something I don’t quite understand with the "*" command and the "/ (/ register). I use the "*" command to fill the search register (/) with the current word (under cursor) so I don’t have… Read More Why nvim (vim) adds \< and \> to search pattern and what they means?

I’ve been using vim/neovim for like 2/3 months now, and I really like it, but i got a problem, sometimes instead of using hjkl I’m using arrow keys, but I want to always use hjkl. I tried to watch some youtube tutorials, but idk if theyre good >Solution : There’s nothing wrong with using the… Read More How to learn to use hjkl in vim?

I’ve recently started learning Vim and got stuck on its behavior regarding changing/deleting text objects, particularly code blocks surrounded by curly braces. Here is an example of code: function main() { console.log("Hello world"); } If I move my cursor at the beginning of the word function and enter the following combination: di{ Vim will delete… Read More Removing only the function body using `di{` in Vim

I am trying to use relative line numbers with NeoVim to jump through my file so I am expecting to digit to jump 20 lines before: :20k and to jump 20 lines after: :20j I tried but nothing happens. So I tried to add this configuration to my init.v file: nnoremap <expr> j v:count ?… Read More Go to a specific relative number line in Neovim

So my issue when yanking a word (yw) is that it copies the trailing spaces as well: Example: Doing a yw on this: ‖Hello World Results in copying Hello But the same applies to: ‖LongVariableName = ‘SomeValue’; Results in copying LongVariableName Is there a way to make as such I copy without copying any space?… Read More Ignore trailing spaces when yanking a word in neovim

I have a file named ini which receives no syntax highlighting since there is no file extension to help identify the file type. How would I go about declaring that all files which are named ini should be of type dosini? >Solution : :h ftdetect may help you. Basically it is autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.ini setfiletype… Read More Vim: How to declare that a file with a certain name should be of some file type?

I show the tutorial on YouTube and I cant figure it what is use of the 😡 what is does exactly quit vim or stop vim >Solution : it does save the file and quit the vim exactly as :wq the :wq as the save and quit

Say I just ran a linter in the terminal and I have a bunch of linter output in the standard format: path/to/some/file.foo:45:23: This is an error message path/to/some/file.foo:46:12: This is another error message … I am currently opening each file manually in Neovim, navigating to the correct line and fixing the issue. Instead, I want… Read More How to populate the quickfix list or location list of Vim/Neovim with arbitrary linter output?