Running ubuntu 20.10 and vim: version 8.2.716  that comes default with installation. Seems the help function in Vim does not work/exists: :help cp-default                                                                    E149: Sorry, no help for cp-default  or: :help cp E149: Sorry, no help for cp  Do I need to install some additional help files to enable it?
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I am new to Vim. I'm following  tutorials to help me learn to use it.  But some of my commands are not working, for example:  Capital W. f followed by a character. (To move to next same char.)   Why is this happening and how can I get these commands to work?
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Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Gimp 2.6, so I installed Gimp 2.8 using the instructions below:   sudo apt-get purge gimp*   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp   sudo apt-get update   sudo apt-get install gimp    When try to open help, I get the message below. How do I install and configure the help for 2.8 on Ubuntu?
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Could the magic links be updated so that we can link to help center subsections? In the past, [faq#section] used to work, now neither [help#section] nor [help/section] work.  Could this be added?    As per Nick's request, I'm starting a list of shortcuts that would be nice to have; besides the [help#anchor] → /help/anchor ones. Feel free to edit more in:   #benice →  (preferably a section link to the "be nice" section) #bounty →  #promotion →   (preferably a section link)
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is anything else supposed to be here? I am using Ubuntu gnome and my keyboard is unresponsive for encryption password. Do I need any more modules, and if so where do I add them.  # List of modules that you want to include in your initramfs. # They will be loaded at boot time in the order below. # # Syntax:  module_name [args ...] # # You must run update-initramfs(8) to effect this change. # # Examples: # # raid1 # sd_mod
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What can I type at my shell (which happens to be bash) that will list all the commands that are recognized?  Also, does this differ by shell? Or do all shells just have a "directory" of commands they recognize?  Secondly, different question, but how can I override any of those? In other words how can I write my own view command to replace the one existing on my Ubuntu system, which appears to just load vim.
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When I open the file in Vim, I see strange ^M characters.  Unfortunately, the world's favorite search engine does not do well with special characters in queries, so I'm asking here:   What is this ^M character? How could it have got there? How do I get rid of it?
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When invoking vim through find | xargs, like this:  find . -name "*.txt" | xargs vim   you get a warning about  Input is not from a terminal   and a terminal with pretty much broken behaviour afterwards. Why is that?    This question was explicitly about the why, not about the how to avoid. This was asked, and answered, .
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I was trying to find how to pass some text to a file without overwriting what's there already using the > command and I realised I don't know what it's called. Searching for right arrow or right chevron or more than command didn't show up anything. I've always just called it pass to.
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My Macbook was stuck yesterday, when I tried to paste 1200 lines of 80 characters to Vim. It was much faster to download the file, and not to paste the text.  I have thought that this problem might be the reason, why internet operators allow slower uploading than downloading.
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The autocorrection function of zsh is very helpful for me but it does't always gives a proper result.  ~$ sudo vim somefile zsh: correct 'vim' to '.vim' [nyae]?    Yet what I want is something like the a never option that can stop it to correct commands like those forever.  How can I do this?
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Whenever I try to compile my LaTeX on vim using vim-latex and \ll I get the following error  vDoc.tex || I can't find file `0'. 0 || Emergency stop. 0  [Quickfix List] :latex -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error-style 0                                  1,1             All  How to fix this? I have the latex version of Mac OS X. Also I have tried to fix by typing in latex -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error-style 0    to no avail. Please help.  Thanks.  EDIT: When I type in the command  :!latex -interaction=nonstopmode % it compiles but whenever I do \ll it doesn't Furthermore when I use :!latex -interaction=nonstopmode % it doesn't go over the errors when I hit enter...Any help is appreciated.
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How do I specify Vim settings for all files under the current directory?  The ideal solution would be if Vim searched for and read a .vimrc in the current directory before searching for ~/.vimrc, and apply the settings there for the entire tree.  I've seen a , but this means the applied settings aren't transparent since they require the plugin to be installed.  In contrast, a modeline is transparent since regardless of a user's vimrc or specific vim invocation the modeline settings will be applied for that file.  Things I tried are   placing a .vimrc in the working directory :so vimrc in the modeline.   I suppose both don't work for security reasons.  I don't need the full power of a vimrc; being bound to settings acceptable by a modeline would suffice.  My goal is to make it easier for vimmers to adopt coding standards in a project.
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I know I can use Up to iterate through previous commands. Running the last command simply involves Up + Enter. However, I was thinking of buying the  as I spend a lot of time in vim.  This keyboard has no arrow keys, and the only way I know how to get this kind of behaviour is by pressing Ctrl + R and beginning to repeat my previous command.  Is there an easy way to emulate Up + Enter in an UNIX terminal without the arrow keys?
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I know that from inside vim the command to display line numbers is :set number.  Is it possible to invoke vim so that line numbers are shown from the beginning?
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I have defined my own custom vim file type with highlighting etc.  I would like to open it using the terminal based vim when I double click on it.  I am using mac os x.  Any pointers on how to start on this?
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Reading the help center article on syntax highlighting, one of the paragraphs within it reads:     You can use either , like lang-cpp or lang-sql, or you can specify a tag, and the syntax highlighting language associated with this tag will be used:   Note the link in there, which goes to .  Problem is, a long time ago we removed the list of options from several questions/answers across meta Stack Exchange because it was a pain trying to keep all of them updated. It makes a lot more sense to just have one list that we keep updated, and the most logical place for that list was in the , which is where it now resides.  Can the link in the help center be updated to point directly to the list, rather than to a post that explains that the list has been moved?
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I'm running the latest Kubuntu (12.04 beta 2) and I would like to run the latest emacs (currently v24). The repos are one version behind. What's the best way to install v24 or later (and avoid future version conflicts)?  Also, is there any reason not to aways use the GUI version of emacs if X is running? For example, could I set the GUI emacs version as the default text editor and use it to edit cron jobs (crontab -e)? I'm assuming the answer is yes, but since I haven't done that yet (my default editor is nano), I want to check if there are reasons I should leave nano as the default editor.  Usually when I'm working on the command line I end up using nano. Now that I think about it, I have no idea why I keep doing that. Is there any downside to calling a GUI editor when working in an X terminal?  EDIT: I briefly tested these two versions   GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.3.20) from  GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) installed by default in Kubuntu.   .  Unfortunately (for me) the defaults installed version (23.3.1, 23.3+1-1ubuntu9) is the nox version.   Package: emacs23-nox Status: install ok installed Version: 23.3+1-1ubuntu9 Replaces: emacs23, emacs23-gtk, emacs23-lucid   The package with version 24 opens in GUI mode by default. That's what I prefer. Some of the version 24 changes that interest me are listed in the references below.   But there appear to be a multitude of different packages and versions I could install.  References:   What’s New In Emacs 24 (part 1) | Mastering Emacs  "    shell-mode uses pcomplete rules, with the standard completion UI.  Yowzah! There’s a lot of cool, new functionality hidden away in this gem of a change." EmacsWiki: Recent Changes