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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, ...

I'm coding mostly python/php using Pycharm, PhpStorm. I use mostly the basics of the IDE syntax highlighting, copy, paste, move up and down line, copy line, delete line, search and replace. I was ...

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 ...

Stack Exchange offers some amount of Twitter integration (for example see @StackWorkplace). Do we want to add this to the Vi site? Update: It's been added.

Is there any data on how many users are using Vi vs Vim? I'm under the impression that it's mostly Vim (you may prove me wrong though). If this should be the go to destination for Vim users then IMHO ...

I've noticed that we have a lot of questions like this: I have this text: sometext1 How can I use vim to turn it into: sometext2 I'm not really sure how to tag most of these. ...

I'm not sure how many of you get this, but I use a different keyboard layout (Colemak), and a different vim layout in general, so sometimes when I am reading solutions, I get down right confused ...

Right now, my assessment is that this community is very healthy, and doing very well in most stats. For example, my anecdotal experience is that we have a lot of very knowledgeable vim users who are ...

These arguments here: Should questions about how to use vi mode in bash be on-topic? speak about the idea that if we get questions regarding vi-modes, it is a slippery slope, and we will end up ...

I recently saw this question: Good Ways to Get Over that Vim Learning Curve?, and I saw that it was tagged with vim-windows and macvim. Both of these tags are completely wrong for the question, and I ...

On occasion a question will inspire members to not just give answer to the question, but to go a step further and develop it in to a full-featured plugin. Let's list all vi.SE inspired plugins here! ...

At the TeX SO it's usual to mark questions that led to new packages with a little box, like this: This question led to a new package: packagename > **This question led to a new package:** &...

I have a question that was marked as a duplicate: How can I find the list of all of vim's default keybindings? I saw this text: This question has been asked before and already has an answer. ...

I am trying to advocate vi.SE by going out on SO, answering Vim questions and then directing people towards us here on vi.SE. Yet, I encountered a situation in which a question on SO has no ...

As a Vim user I would like to do all of my typing in Vim or a Vim like environment. This being the Vim stack exchange, is it possible to make all the text input fields on this site Vim-like? I don't ...

This question comes up because I was trying to think of solutions to a rather specific question, and had several questions for the OP. The comments were getting a bit crowded so I thought that I would ...

I just saw the regexp tag in this question. When I clicked on it I expected to be redirected to the regular-expression tag but it was not the case. I could just edit the question and add the correct ...

Let's say the OP asks a question, and I see that it can be solved 2 different ways. (For example, a search and replace, or a macro) Should I post two separate answers or one answer describing both ...