Questions tagged [neovim]
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Invisible Cursor in NeoVim-GTK
Running NeoVim with the GTK interface, the cursor/insertion point is invisible. How can I get a visible cursor?
In insert mode there's no indication at all of where I'm typing:
In normal mode it's almost as bad: moving the cursor over a visible…
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Troubles with wrong characters in neovim+tmux
I have a problem with extra charaters displayed in my nvim.
It works ok until I open a tmux or guake terminal.
This looks like next picture(I just wrote :q, but got that strange symbols)
strange symbols
user312988
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Have neovim load a file from file explorer
I would like to have neovim as a default text editor also when accessed from file explorer.
When I choose it from the "open with" dialogue or when it is the default for some file extension I'm clicking, it opens the file in neovim in my terminal…
prophet-five
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Vim package Vulnerable
is the latest vim package for Ubuntu 16/18 vulnerable to modeline?
I have two production ubuntu based servers, one has 18.04.2 LTS on it and the other one has 16.04.6 LTS on it.
Neither apt-get upgrade nor apt-get dist-upgrade showed any new…
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vim over ssh: character q popping up
Whenever I ssh onto my remote machine and type : a q gets pre-filled. It does not, however quit when I press enter, it just replaces the colon with a , so below the status line there is a qq.
The machine uses the same .vimrc as my main computer…
Sascha
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upgrading neovim
Can't seem to upgrade neovim.
I added the new repo: add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable
And upgraded, but I'm still on nvim 0.1.5-dev, and opening up nvim doesn't pay attention to the .nvimrc file.
Any ideas?
Costa Michailidis
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I can't get the colorshemes to work in neovim
I used neovim in archlinux and colors were working fine, I used rxvt-unicode and zsh. I try to do the same in ubuntu but the colors look like crap. It's dark and not the right colors. Any ideas how to fix this?
set t_Co=256 is…
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error installing pylsp
I want to install pylsp on my neovim with mason, but when I try to do it I get this error message:
Installation failed for Package(name=python-lsp-server) error="Failed to create python3 virtual environment."
I made sure that the python virtual…
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I cannot rm -rf this directory Permission denied even though I have perm WSL2 ubuntu
So there is this location ~/.local/share/nvim/mason/.packages
for mason to properly install packages it apparently needs to be able to remove stuff within this folder
however my user doesn't have perm to delete this as manually doing rm -rf…
Sombre Dreamer
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Terminal opens neovim instead of vim
I use Ubuntu with the zsh shell, and when I try to open vim with the vi or vim command it opens neovim instead. I tried using the original bash shell, but it still didn't work. I tried sudo update-alternatives --config vi but it didn't work either.
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.conf file syntax highlighting on neovim
I am using Neovim 8.0. previously I used nano, which had syntax highlighting for .conf files. But in neovim there is treesitter for popular languages. I don't know if there are any option for .conf file. So, is there any way to get syntax…
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How do I get xcape to work correctly on Ubuntu 22.04?
I'm a vim/nvim user, and xcape has become for me a key feature in the last years.
I use it in combination with gnome-tweaks (new package name, on previous version was gnome-tweak-tool) in order to:
use CapsLock as a Ctrl in combination with another…
LordAlucard90
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What do I do with Vim Bootstrap output file?
Using: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS; Neovim (cannot remember initial install method, although it is activated via nvim command)
I was recently pointed toward this web app for creating Vim and Neovim config files. According to any resources I can find, it is…
Nate T
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How Do You Remove the Terminal Titlebar for Neovim?
I just started trying out Neovim, so I am just getting the hang of setting it up. After installing Neovim through sudo apt install neovim, when I launch Neovim through either the nvim command, or clicking its application icon, Neovim seems to only…
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How do I get rid of the gap on the right hand side of a maximised terminal when running Vim?
On multiple versions of Ubuntu, Vim and Neovim display a horrible gap on the right hand side of the terminal when it is maximised.
This is Gnome terminal:
And this is Konsole:
This does not happen when the terminal is not maximised because it…
Thomas Browne
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