Questions tagged [error]
Requests to interpret and troubleshoot error messages from Vi / Vim.
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Why are lua error messages shortened?
Example of an error I might get: ...t_nvjppMGP/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/diagnostic.lua:1633: Failed to delete autocmd stack traceback: /home/alex/.config/nvim/lua/options.lua:41: in function ...
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Vim shows error E303 every time I open a file!
Every time I open Vim and try to insert or when I open a file I encounter error: E303: Unable to open swap file for "[No Name]", recovery impossible. I'm on Windows 11 and I don't think I ...
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getting error - Formatter failed. See :ConformInfo for details
I want this to format my document on save, and I think the code will do that functionality wise - well it is not working is a different thing. When I try to save a file, I get an error saying ...
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Connect vim-dadbod with postgres instance running in docker without having to install postgres locally
Some context. I am running postgres on my local machine using docker compose. Together with the compose is also pg-admin, but I want to avoid having to open pg-admin all the time and started looking ...
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Compile error due to being unable to find ncurses library when compiling in MSYS2 environment
I am trying to compile Vim from source with Ruby support for the command-t plugin in an MSYS2 environment (using the UCRT64 shell). So I followed the instructions of the Vim website and used git to ...
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vimwiki: Links to files and URLs no longer work
Using Vim 9.1 32-bit on Windows 11, with Vimwiki 2.5. I'm not sure what I might have done to cause this, but Vimwiki links to files and URLs no longer work. Examples: https://usbank.com [[file:...
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errorformat: Trailing characters. Cannot load Grepper output from a file into quickfix
I get Trailing characters error with set errorformat when trying to use quickfix: This is a sample line from a file 20240527-grep.txt that I would load into quickfix. Note, I obtained this output from ...
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Neovim is looking for configs in current directory, how do I fix this?
I am trying to configure neovim by adding plugins via lazy in my C:\User\{username}\AppData\local\nvim folder. However when I try to use neovim it only works in the nvim folder and no where else. I ...
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Go to error messages' `:help`
How can I search the help entry for the last errors after the execution? Example " try to run a command that doesn't exist :qwerty E492: Not an editor command: qwerty I usually use :echo errmsg, ...
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Vim help outputs gibberish
While going through the vimtutor, I was supposed to execute commands to access help. Executing :help worked, but once I executed :help w, :help user-manual the output became gibberish. The error code ...
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Errors in `term_sendkeys()`
:h terminal-to-job shows the following example of term_sendkeys() call term_sendkeys(buf, "ls *.java\<CR>") Following this, I added the line to .vimrc: nnoremap <Leader>test :...
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Windows E482: Cannot create file
I have been using this bookmark plugin for a while, on Linux. I want to start using it on Windows as well, so I have added this conditional setting: " vim-bookmarks let g:bookmark_sign = '⭕' ...
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Error when using vim-plug from git-bash
I just installed vim-plug to use the doxygen plugin. Added call plug#begin() Plug 'vim-scripts/DoxygenToolkit.vim' call plug#end() to the .vimrc (_vimrc because Win10..). Using the doxygen plugin ...
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Deleting multiple pattern simultaneously
I would like to execute multiple deletions. The problem when a pattern is not found all deletions are cancelled. I used the e flag to tell vim the not founding a pattern is not an error, but it still ...
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Error in coroutine while installing nvim-lua.planary.nvim with nvim 0.9.1
I'm trying to setup my nvim environment following this video. I tried to install Telescope and got this error. I'm installing this on wsl2, nvim version 0.9.1 [packer.nvim] [ERROR 18:23:00] async.lua:...
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