This isn't really a big issue, but annoying nonetheless; when I'm typing in GVim on my Windows box, the word I'm editing will sometimes flash as I type.
This does not happen for Vim sessions in Putty, and I've never noticed this behaviour when running GVim in Linux, but I've seen it on several other Windows setups.
I'm thinking the problem is GVim won't render the word until it has figured out what syntax highlighting to use, because the flashing disappears if I disable highlighting. But not using syntax highlighting is not something I would consider a solution ;)
Has anyone else experienced the same problem? Thanks in advance! :)
I had the same problem actually. Copy out all the items in ~_vimrc and put them in ~_gvimrc, this should work. Not sure why though.
I would say Change your colorscheme.
If that doesn't work try the command line, open up command prompt and type vim then see if you have the same problem
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yesterday I've tried some installations/upgrades of node, Ruby etc. via homebrew. Since that my terminal output on my Mac is unreadable. Looks like wrong character encodings. But after restarting the machine, restarting terminal, starting bash within my zsh-terminal didn't change the wrong encoding.
Output looks like really cryptic but selecting text and pasting it to an editor everything is correct in the editor. Any idea?
Thanks a lot.
Yes, thank you! You were right. Changing the font solved my issue but I'm not sure why the font was broken since yesterday.
I just switched from a Windows laptop to a Macbook Pro. I have installed vim and macvim using homebrew. Everything works fine with macvim, but in the command line, the vim exhibits weird behaviors.
First, the cursor in the Insert mode (which I suppose should be simply a line) is the same as the Normal mode (which is a rectangle), making it impossible to tell the current mode from the cursor shape. I don't know whether this is normal with vim in the command line because I didn't pay attention before. But this is certainly different from the behavior of macvim and it helps to distinguish the shapes of the cursor in different modes.
Second, the backspace does not work appropriately. It often cannot delete letters in the Insert mode.
I am totally new to OS X, so I would greatly appreciate it if someone can give some hints on how to solve these issues.
Thanks!
Indeed, nothing in your question relates in any way to Mac OS X.
I also like my cursor to change shape when in insert mode, and I use these lines to make it happen in iTerm2:
let &t_SI = "\e[5 q"
let &t_EI = "\e[2 q"
This is a hack, and YMMV depending on which terminal emulator you're using. I suggest googling to find the best solution for your case.
The weird backspace behavior you're experiencing is caused by one of the notorious Vim defaults. Simply set
set backspace=eol,start,indent
to make it work as expected.
I suggest starting with or at least skim through Tim Pope's vim-sensible and save yourself some headaches.
When run in a terminal emulator, Vim has no control over the shape of the cursor. Some hacks exist but they only "work" by chance so I would suggest you get used to it and read :help 'showmode'.
Your backspace issue with a simple option. See :help 'backspace'.
I wonder if you can help me with this rather bizarre phenomenon.
I'm using Gimp 2.8.3 on a Mac OS 10.9.5 and I try to insert text with the Text Tool. Easy enough, but when I type e.g. "Jazz", I get as far as "J", and then the "a" is interpreted as command and the airbrush tool gets activated. This happens with every (lowercase) key which in principle has a command function.
I checked the manual but there's no mention of something that needs to be switched off to use the text entry tool.
Anybody seen this before?
Thanks, Rob
Update: I've had the brilliant idea to check for Gimp updates. Turned out, there's a Gimp 2.8.14 now, which doesn't show this behaviour anymore. So, it seems to have been a bug in Gimp which luckily has been fixed.
Just for the record: if anyone is hit by this or a similar bug, there is a workaround if upgrading/fix is not an option: gimp 2.8, the old off-image text editor for creating text can be used, by checking the Use editor control in the text tool options.
GIMP will them pop a small blank window where the text can be typed without being intercepted by other parts of the application.
I recently got a mac. I was previously working on a laptop with ubuntu and I was using vim.
I now will discuss about vim in console (iTerm2 or the default terminal) and macvim.
The problem is that some binding don't work under mac. For example I had CTRL left/right for navigating between splits, CTRL up/down to move lines or blocks of code up and down, etc. They don't work anymore.
I had a bunch of plugins (nerdtree, powerline, etc.) that now look weird. Powerline doesn't display special characters in macvim and in terminal they are question marks.
In console, nerdtree looks weird and it doesn't display the special triangle character. If I hit return to open a file selected from nerdtree, it doesn't do anything. In macvim, it works ok.
Is there any guide on how to use vim on mac? Or what is the recommended way?
Nerdtree : let g:NERDTreeDirArrows=0
Powerline : Take a look at the part of strange characters in the document https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline
Navigating within splits with Ctrl + arrows work on mine. Can you post your vimrc, or try running vim without any configuration.
Ctrl+arrows to move lines and block doesn't work on mine.
Did you check which key was sent by your terminal to vim ?
Did you tried to set it manually ?
I had similar problems with emacs, including one keybinding I'm still not able to reproduce :(
I have the exact same config on my Mac and a Windows box at work, my Ubuntu box at home and a couple of VPSes. It works exactly the same on every platform in GVim/MacVim or in plain Vim.
Unfortunately I don't use either NERDTree nor Powerline but Vdt's answer seems to have all the info needed.
Some of the behaviors you describe are custom mappings. You should show us your ~/.vimrc (the old one on linux and the new one on the Mac, if there are differences) so that we can help you make it more portable.
Also, "looks weird" means nothing: please add a screenshot or two.
Greetings. I've been using vim for years, and I've recently started toying with XCode. One of the things I really like about XCode is that it will auto complete words without me hitting <TAB>.
For instance, in this image below I only need to type NSSObj and the rest is filled in automatically, no special keystroke required.
I'd like to reproduce this effect in vim.
To be clear, this question is not about how to get tab/omni-completion working in vim. I've already got tab/omni completion working just fine and that's not a problem. The question is: does anyone know how to get vim to autocomplete as I am typing ?
vimscripts has a plugin called autocomplpop.vim that does what you want.
Another option is a vim script called neocomplcache made by Shougo.