What causes swap files to be created?
As part of the program I wrote, I constantly read and write data from files. I noticed that as part of doing so, I am inadvertently creating swap .swp files.
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Advantages of using set -o vi
I have seen many developers using this command to set the option to vi. I never understood the real use of this?
How to automatically strip trailing spaces on save in Vi and Vim?
Is there a .vimrc setting to automatically remove trailing whitespace when saving a file?
Is it possible to have vim key bindings in terminal?
I’m getting used to vim bindings (like pressing w to go to word, dw to delete a word, and such) and it’s modes (insert, normal, visual), and, out of curiosity would like to know: is there some kind of implementation of this behaviour of modes and bindings from vim to my terminal?
Stop vim pasting selections as text!
I have been using VI and VIM for years (30 or more) (in xterms, not its own window, gvim) and I have a huge library of vim commands that I give vim using the mouse middle button as a selection.
Can vim display ASCII characters only, and treat other bytes as binary data?
I already know vim -b, however, depending on the locale used, it displays multi-byte characters (like UTF-8) as single letters.
Vim :s replace first N < g occurrences on a line
In vim, I sometimes have occasion to replace the first few occurrences of a match on a line, but not every one like g would. e.g.:
Extend Default Configuration of vim
I’ve been using the default configuration of vim for a while and want to make a few changes. However, if I edit ~/.vimrc it seems to overwrite all other configuration settings of /etc/vimrc and such, e.g. now there is no syntax highlighting. Here is what vim loads: