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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 - Martin and James - have stepped down from their ...

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, ...

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,...

Summary: Vi and Vim will begin the nomination stage for a special election on September 10, 2018. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange. The timeline goes ...

I am convinced that a separate tag text-objects or text-object-select is useful. Text objects can only be used in visual-mode or after an operator (:h text-objects). A possible misunderstanding can ...

I noticed that this particular question is being down voted and received some close votes: Why is Vim pasting after the cursor? Where is the correct place to discuss or disagree with such close votes?...

How is it possible for an answer to your question not to show up in your recent StackExchange inbox on the website , but only in your all items inbox: ? That is, the question I received "16 hours ...

I recently asked a vim question at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/439608/how-to-delete-a-file-from-within-a-vimscript, not realizing this stackexchange existed. Can someone move it over for ...

I'm asking this question because this question Neovim takes so long to source ruby.vim have been put on hold.

The "What topics can I ask about here?" section in the help center has not been modified since the birth of our site back in February 2015. Now that the site has grown and gained in traffic, I feel ...

Currently, it seems to be used (very intermittently) for questions involving code which could be placed in a vimrc file, for questions for which the answer involves putting some code in your vimrc ...

I find, that quite often OPs have to be asked for OS OS version terminal terminal version vi/vi clone used version even more so, if sshing into another host is involved. Would it be possible to ask ...

The count tag was discussed a couple of years ago, but I think we need to take another look at it. At the time, it seems to have been decided (based on the three existing questions) that the tag ...

In this answer How to test if a string is a vim command? After there is a comment asking motivation of the question. I added an answer to specify that point, with concrete code, key mapping, ...

When I initially wrote this question, I mistakenly wrote "ex mode" instead of "command-line mode". Some of the comments clarified my mistake, and suggested a solution. There was also some uncommon ...

Let me start that I really, really want this community to succeed, and I wish I had more time to try to make it happen. I will try hard to not make this question look like a rant. This is very ...

I am somewhat confused as to why accessing review queues is given at 350 rep on Vim.SE, but on other sites such as Stack Overflow, it's not awarded until 500 rep. (And on SE Community/Meta it's not ...

When searching for the same solution I ran across this question on SO. It didn't do so well there, but I'd like an answer to the same question. Would it be acceptable to post the same question here ...

I asked a question about some behavior of Vim I could not understand. I received comments saying that this behavior was probably because of a bug. What should I do with this question now? Should I ...

The community bot is bumping old questions to the homepage - is this really useful? For example this question will probably never get an answer and was bumped to the top more than once (if I'm not ...

Specifically: The top-rated answer to how to remove trailing whitespace also includes the answer to the more specific how to remove trailing whitespace on save. Should the latter be marked as a ...

Let's say someone asks how to perform a task but does not specify what techniques/vi features they want to use to achieve the task. Then someone writes a fantastic answer using a particular feature. ...

I have recently discovered this question, which has a single, imperfect answer. I was about to mark it as a duplicate of this question, but realised at that point that the latter question is actually ...

The cryptmethod tag is currently used in four questions, but seems a bit overspecific: although all four questions mention the 'cryptmethod' setting, only two of them are really about it. (In fact, ...

We're so hip we got ourselves a Twitter account: @ViStackExchange. We won't be posting questions automatically with a bot like the Twitter accounts of most other Stack Exchange sites do. Instead we'...

I'm seeing a spate* of questions where users ask a (sometimes very simple) question and then paste their entire .vimrc in. I guess it's possible that for some issues this might help to narrow down ...