Questions tagged [startup]
Activity that occurs after invocation but before the first document is displayed
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What's the right way to disable keymappings in startup file _defaults.lua?
Some of the keymappings that are loaded by default in Neovim conflict with a keymapping I've been using for over twenty years. (It's built into my fingers now.) These conflicting keymappings are ...
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Echo message with highlighting when opening Vim
I want to echo some fun ASCII art when Vim opens, For some reason though, when I try to add color highlights to the message they do not show up. So I created a vimscript function and mapped it to ...
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Neovim :e $MYVIMRC results in E5113 error and :checkhealth in E5009
I'm trying Neovim for the first time now. Installed it in my desktop, and followed the Neovim kickstart and nothing went wrong. However, I tried to do the same to my new laptop, and running :e $...
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Search for a pattern inside the content of each config script executed as startup
I am using Neovim on Windows, and I am trying to understand where and why a specific option (namely, noexpandtab) in my vimrc (actually, init.vim) is overridden. I know that I can see all the sourced ...
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Slow Neovim startup, but only sometimes and not a specific plugin
Sometimes, Neovim takes a relatively long time to start up. But then subsequent openings (even of the same file) are very fast. Because it's so unpredictable, I find it hard to reproduce. It could be ...
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Slow start time (~5s) of netrw on windows
On my work computer (windows 10, managed device from my company) neovim takes 5s-8s to start, when launching it (nvim .), and ~5s of it are from netrw. I assume this has something to do with ...
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Pipe a (n)vim command to a bash command
I would like to process in a shell script the output of a neovim command such as echo &runtimepath. I found an online answer here suggesting to use: nvim --headless --cmd 'echo &runtimepath' --...
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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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How to open the last modified file at startup?
As every user in this community understands, launching Vim using the command line without using any arguments or flags will edit a blank buffer with the :intro screen. Some distributions and utilities ...
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Set key to toggle full screen in MacVim
I use Vim from bash and I use MacVim as a UI in macOS. I max out my desktops, and try to keep "1 app per desktop", so MacVim sits into its own desktop. Except that the app starts in full ...
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How to make Vim start at the end of a template?
I have skeleton template files for various filetypes, and when I create a new file based on these templates, the cursor always starts at the top of the file. It would be more convenient if it started ...
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Change what Vim does by default when no files are given
When running vim with no command line arguments, it opens a splash screen describing Vim. I would like to control what vim does "by default", so I can make it do something more useful like ...
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How to display ASCII art in Neovim startup screen without plugin?
Here's the ASCII art image I want to display in nvim dashboard: " ", " ⣴⣶⣤⡤⠦⣤⣀⣤⠆ ⣈⣭⣿⣶⣿⣦⣼⣆ ", " ⠉⠻⢿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣶⣦⠤⠄⡠⢾⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⠉⠻⣿⣿⡛...
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Why is my Vim startup dominated by "first screen update"?
I'm trying to investigate why Vim startup is pretty slow. vim -u NONE and the like are extremely fast as expected, so it is obviously my config/plugins, but what strikes me, is that most of the time ...
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How do I position cursor according to filetype (gitcommit)?
Sometimes on start, the cursor is not at the top in gitcommit buffers. I assume that this is because it wasn't on the first line the last time I exited a gitcommit buffer and the position was saved in ...
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