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I want to share clipboard between VIM and shell so that when I have text selected in VIM, I can use SHIFT+INSTERT in shell to paste it in command line. One of the user case is to grep certain word in current directory.
I am using VIM version 7.4, and have following line added in vimrc file:
set clipboard=unnamedplus
This approach works fine when do yank in normal mode. When I select text by CTRL+v in VIM, SHIFT+INSERT in shell always paste a newline along with the word.
Is there any way to stripe the newline?
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Sometimes when you ctrl-v with bash it will run the command even though you didn't intend to run it yet - is there a way to paste a command into the bash shell / terminal making sure you don't actually run any of the command(s)?
if you could set what was on the terminal prompt programmatically, you could do this with bash on MacOS:
export BASH_PROMPT="$(pbpaste)"
which ties into my other question that I just asked:
How to change the value that's in the prompt
There is a Readline variable:
enable-bracketed-paste
When set to On, Readline will configure the terminal in a way that will enable it to insert each paste into the editing buffer as a single string of characters, instead of treating each character as if it had been read from the keyboard. This can prevent pasted characters from being interpreted as editing commands. The default is off.
To turn this on, put something like
set enable-bracketed-paste on
into your ~/.inputrc.
This was introduced in Bash 4.4 / Readline 7.0.
Use ^X^E aka Ctrl+X Ctrl+E in bash to open your $EDITOR for command entry.
Paste and/or edit as much as you want, across as many lines as you want. When you're done, save and exit, and bash will run it.
(In vi mode, the shortcut is v)
Is there a way to highlight my input into the bash console while typing code?
For example, if I use bash keywords, those are highlighted in a specific color?
edit:
I'm particularly interested in solutions which make use of what bash already has to offer, like tweaking .bash_profile or similar.
You can use the syntax highlighting feature of vim/vi.
Open a file, for example open existing file called file.sh, enter
vi file.sh
Now press ESC key, type “: syntax on” i.e. type as follows
:syntax on
To turn it back off, press ESC key, type : syntax off
:syntax off
To make it permanent you can create a new .vimrc file in your home directory. Open the terminal and enter:
vim ~/.vimrc
There you can enter your various configurations. When done, you need to save the file and restart vim.
To be sure which vimrc is being used, you can ask inside of vim by typing:
:echo $MYVIMRC
I know that I can get into bash while in vim via:
Ctrlz
or
:sh
or
:shell
etc.
Then use bash commands as normal, and get back out using fg.
What I am wondering is, can I execute a line of code from a script in vim straight to Bash, without having to exit vim, or having to copy it (via highlighting in visual mode for example) from vim, then going to a terminal and pasting it and hitting enter etc.?
Easiest way is to put the cursor on the line and type:
!!shreturn
This will replace the line with the output of the script. If you don't want that, simply follow up with u.
Arguably easiest way:
Yank the text you want to execute.
Open the cmdline (by pressing :)
type ! and then press ctrl-r and ", which will paste the content of the unnamed register to the cmdline (which will contain the text you wanted to execute)
press Enter
I know there is a shortcut to open a file with sublime text from the terminal but id there something similar with geany, the only info I can find online about it is opening a file from geany to the terminal.
If Geany is inside your path, just call geany <file>. This should work on every platform, Geany is running.
Out of Geany's man page:
SYNOPSIS
geany [option] [+number] [files ...]
This will open files either in a new session or, if already a session of Geany is running, inside the existing one.
A file can be given as space separated list and might take even line numbers:
files ...
A space-separated list of filenames. Absolute and relative
filenames can be used. Geany also recognises line and column
information when appended to the filename with colons, e.g.
"geany foo.bar:10:5" will open the file foo.bar and place the
cursor in line 10 at column 5.
You can use open:
open [PATH_TO_FILE] -a [PATH_TO_GEANY_APP]
The a option defines which application to use.
To make this shorter, create an alias:
Something like echo 'alias geany="open $1 -a [PATH_TO_GEANY_APP]"' >> ~/.bash_profile && chmod u+x ~/.bash_profile. Then open a new Terminal window and type geany [path_to_file].
Often I find my self navigating the filesystem from a Conque shell in Vim and want to open a specific file inside my existing MacVim session. Is this possible ? - I was hoping for something like:
shell> open some/file.txt
and then have file.txt pop up inside my existing Vim window (preferably in a new tab).
Note: I am using #wycats vim dot files (not sure this matters).
Type from ConqueShell
mvim --remote-tab-silent filename
This will open the file in a new tab in MacVim
You could also write a Bash alias to shorten the command (assuming you are using bash).
Put in your ~/.profile
alias vim='mvim --remote-tab-silent'
this would enable you to type
vim filename
from ConqueShell or bash, and have it open in a new MacVim tab, rather than terminal vim. It of course does disable your ability to run standard vim (although you could still use the vi command), so maybe you would want to name the alias differently.
Just to add, this will work only if you placed the mvim executable on your path E.G. /usr/bin/mvim. It comes with the MacVim.app
Often I find my self navigating the filesystem from a Conque shell
The beauty of running a shell from inside vim is you have all of vim and the shell at your disposal.
gf is your friend. Once you get the file you want displayed on the screen in some way, you can enter normal mode, move the cursor to the file you want to edit, then use the gf command to navigate to the file. There are many ways to use this. Any program or command that outputs file names is great for this (ll, git status, etc). You could also type the filename into the shell, just to make it visible on the screen without actually running any terminal commands (tab completion is handy here).
It is possible, you can start vim as server and then add as many files as you want, but I'm not very familiar with this, so I can't give you just a direction.