Questions tagged [linux-arch]
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Numpad enter inserting strange symbol instead of enter
I have a relatively fresh installation of Arch with Hyprland. When using Vim in Kitty, numpad enter inserts the following symbol: instead inserting a newline/executing the typed command. (It doesn't ...
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How to change foreground color of character underneath cursor?
I've tried setting the highlight rules below but it does not work. Whatever color I choose, the color of the character stays the same. I'm using xfce4-terminal on Linux and Terminal.app on Mac OSX. ...
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Mouse navigation not working in Vim
I started using Vim today and I found out that we could use the mouse pointer to go to a line in vim using set mouse=a But unfortunately, it is not working. Here is the config file: https://pastebin....
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Font size NOT changing through .vimrc but can inside vim
I can change the font size with set guifont=FixedsysTTF Monospace:h13 inside Vim and works perfectly. However when I put this inside ~/.vimrc it stays the same font size no matter what size I set it ...
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Vim won't open unless I Ctrl+C [closed]
Having this strange problem, where when I do vim ...some_file... The shell will freeze until I send a signal <Ctrl + C>, and then the vim opens up properly. I haven't touched anything (.vimrc, ....
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Vim catching Win-key keyboard shortcuts on XTerm and i3
I am using Vim 8.2 on XTerm(363) and use i3 version 4.19 as window manager on Arch Linux kernel version 5.4.89-1-lts. My i3 modifier key is the Windows key. When I use Win+h, Win+l, Win+k, or Win+j to ...
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Error when installing Vim
I cloned Vim from the GitHub repo and then run ./configure --with-features=huge \ --enable-multibyte \ --enable-rubyinterp=yes \ --enable-python3interp=yes \ ...
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Vim adding blank line after each line when pasting from clipboard
When I copy-paste multiple lines from clipboard into my vim, it inserts a blank line after every line. But when I copy in into a text editor first and then copy-paste it into vim, the blank lines are ...
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CTRL-V_CTRL-[key], instead of ^[key] gives ^[[27;5;[ASCII code of key]~ in xterm on Arch
For example, Ctrl-v_Ctrl-w gives ^[[27;5;119~ instead of usual ^W. It does behave in such way only on (u)xterm. I've tested it on st, lxterminal, xfce4-terminal and rxvt. I'm also 98% positive that ...
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How to get YouCompleteme to work with kernel headers
I am taking an OS class and we have an upcoming assignment involving Kernel modules. I'm reading Wiley OS text to prepare and they have the below code. I keep on getting an error that the header files ...
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Maps literally read < and > instead of the actual character
Situation Entire .vimrc: inoremap a <CR> Action: user types ia to enter insert mode and type a Expected result: a carriage return is entered into the document Actual result: the characters <...
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How can I delete or ignore a test when compiling vim?
I am compiling vim under Arch linux and it is failing the test "test_netbeans.vim" even though I did not ask for netbeans to be enabled for the build. I tried editing the shared.vim file and removing ...
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Prevent colorscheme from changing background color
I've got a sick terminal colorscheme, and i'm using vim-one colorscheme for neovim, what i'd like to do is stop it from changing the background color (since i like my terminals background color more) ...
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Vim not encoding with UTF-8
I'm using Vim, installed from the Arch Linux repo. I've tried adding set fileencodings=utf-8 and set encoding=utf-8. I've tried with all caps (UTF instead of utf) and putting it in /etc/vimrc and ~/....
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Cannot set (let) mapleader and use <leader> in global vimrc
I'm using basic version vimrc from https://github.com/amix/vimrc. No problem if I put my vimrc at /home/{user}/.vimrc, but if I put it in /etc/vimrc (arch) or /etc/vim/vimrc (debian), it becomes a ...
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