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As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...

I am very excited to announce that yes, the Vi & Vim StackExchange will be graduating from Beta. Look forward to the official name-change on December 16th, 2021 alongside other official meta posts ...

I was watching my colleague use vim, and I gave them some tips to do something more efficiently and they thanked me a lot. I learned it from the manual, but I realized that it would be nice to have ...

indentation has 3 synonym proposals. If you have a tag-score of 5 or greater, you can vote on the synonyms at that link. The current proposals for synonyms are indent smartindent autoindent

Moderator election #3 on Vi and Vim has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...

The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...

Summary: Vi and Vim Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on June 7 to bring in one more moderator. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...

I am relatively new to vi.se, and over the past few weeks I have noticed that when I visit the Home page (https://vi.stackexchange.com/), often old questions will come to the top. An example is this ...

(Apologies if this question is duplicated. I searched for similar questions but all results that came up were about syntax highlighting within Vim, which is unrelated to my question.) Is there a way ...

As you may have noticed I've been less than active as a moderator for several months now, so I sent and email to the Stack Exchange team to step down from my position. After being a member of this ...

I'm looking at https://vi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/12622, which suggests some usage for plugin. I wasn't sure what the tag was being used for, so I hovered and clicked on it. Hovering ...

In the last couple days 20 questions have been posted. Number of answers? One. Total. Don't think I've ever seen it so quiet here before. Everyone all right? Hope it's not Covid. Or people getting ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...

When answering How can i compile cpp using vim yesterday, I've seen that there was no tag related to compilation from vim associated to the question. So, "let's add one" I though. I've ...

Suddenly the toolbar / nave menu has an icon/menu for "Review queues". I had a notification indicated by a red dot that there was something to read and saw a new user had asked a question. ...

As of right now, we are still using the unicorns eating daisies page on the tour. The only available question we have to replace it with is What additional features do gVim and/or MacVim offer ...

I noticed that there isn't (as far as I'm aware) any syntax highlighting for VimL as of now. Now that Google prettify is replaced with highlight.js, wouldn't it be possible to have one now?

For visibility, I posted this question on Meta Stack Overflow, proposing possibly migrating or encouraging users to ask questions about Vim here rather than there. Please post answers if you have ...

What is the status of this Vi and Vim site exiting public beta? I searched the meta questions for beta and the last discussion I found is from 2015: How do we exit public beta (i.e., what are the ...

Have a look at these comments containing some inline code. The highlighting of the inline code incorrectly encloses the normal text space after the trailing `. This seems to be some mistake in the ...

Vi and Vim's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...

Summary: Vi and Vim Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 20 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...

UPDATE: The election has now been scheduled. This community last had moderators appointed in September 2018, so it's been a while... In addition to that, you may have noticed that two of our mods - ...

I've seen many useful questions, where someone took the time to write an excellent answer - but did obviously not give it an upvote. On several sites I take part there exists the understanding that ...

I just wanted to post this announcement real quick in case people were wondering. As you may have noticed, my name no longer has a diamond next to it. There are a variety of reasons why I'm stepping ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

To my surprise Why can't I remap q has been closed as OT. What makes it off topic? (I don't want to argue or discuss but merely get some insight)

I recently came across several suggested edits by the same user (I won't link here, but they should be easy to find if you have access to the review queues). Each one amounted to changing "How to...?"...

plugin-airline has few (3) questions, while plugin-vim-airline has many (45). Before I go about suggesting synonyms or whatever (on Meta, since I cannot do so myself), I wanted to clarify what the ...

I sent an email to the Stack Exchange team asking to resign my mod status. I've been active for almost five years, since the start of the private beta in February 2015. I feel that I've learned all ...

I've just been presented with an edit review that adds a completely new method of solving the problem to an answer (which already provides several different methods.) It seems to me that I need to ...

I'm specifically thinking about this question, but it's true in general. StackOverflow in general is well known to be extremely aggressive in closing questions as duplicates without much justification,...

I recently hit 4000 rep 🎉 and decided to go tag-wiki hunting. On the rep page, there's a link to this 2011 blog post on tags which suggests really cleaning up at least the first two pages. Ok, says I,...

I’ve seen a couple of QAs lately where the OP’s main issue is a missing execute (they need string interpolation/function return values in commands). I’ve voted to close one as a dupe of the other, ...

I answered recently the question 'Adjusting pdflatex settings'. The OP had misspelled a variable of the plugin vim-latex which therefore did not change the behavior of the plugin. At first I wanted ...

Today I stumbled on How to show git branch in statusline?. The question's title is a bit misleading—it actually wants a review of current code. Seeing that it was a code review, I was unsure how to ...

...our little Vi and Vim SE world, that is. :P If you're reading this there's a good chance that you know what I'm talking about. Last month a user was banned from our little slice of heaven and with ...

The cursor-movement tag has 194 questions. The navigation tag has 37 questions, and no tag wiki. Should navigation be made a synonym of cursor-movement? Or should it mean something distinct (...

I recently asked a question about how to use the contents of a register in an ex command in nvi here and a discussion ensued about whether nvi is on topic. Prior to asking the question, I assumed that ...

I am currently trying to get into kakoune. Even though it is built with influence from vim, but it is not vi descendant in any way or form. Are questions regarding kakoune allowed here?

There is an awkward movement happening in this SE (and only this SE in my experience) right now. Some of my questions have been getting a single downvote and all of these questions have things in ...

This morning I (and @Ralf) answered a question about functions being called for every line in a range vs. once for the whole range. It seems to have disappeared: I assume this means it was deleted, ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...

A quick search for the two tags (map-operator and operator-map) shows little difference between the two. map-operator has a nice wiki, which operator-map lacks. I'm not sure what other information ...

I read here that the community decided over three years ago on restricting the subject-mater material. There were no dissenting views. Moreover, the Area51 discussions also lack any dissenting views ...

Updates: The link has been corrected to "Stack Exchange" with the proper syntax (4 Dec.) The issue on GitHub was closed by w0rp, stating that no discussion was had (4 Dec.) Related: How much should ...

I didn't want to ask a question but to look for a FAQ thread. However, for some reasons I can't search the Meta site (maybe because it's Beta?). Ok, it looks like the search widget has just changed ...

Vi and Vim's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...

The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...