Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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In memoriam: Bram Moolenaar
It looks like Bram passed away a few days ago.
Bram had been spending over 30 years on Vim; and not just "the occasional patch/bugfix", but significant amounts, and almost every single day ...
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Building a foundation for vi/vim knowledge
This site will shortly enter public beta. With that change in status will come fresh opportunities: visibility via search engines and throughout the Stack Exchange network, a team of moderators chosen ...
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Vote Early, Vote Often!
I would like to echo a post that Scott Morrison made on Meta.Tex.SE:
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "question" is actually unsolicited advice, based on our experience from the initial ...
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Vi & Vim is graduating from Beta!
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 ...
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:set buftype=twitter
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'...
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Please welcome your new Moderators!
Throughout the beta, we need members from this site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each ...
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:wq! - Resigning as moderator
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 ...
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:x stepping down from my moderator role
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 ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
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 ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
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 ...
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Discussion on migration of Vim questions from S.O
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 ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election (April 2020)
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 ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election
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,...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
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, ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
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,...
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A suggestion to broaden the site's scope to things using VI-keybinding
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 ...
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What is the [vimrc] tag for?
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 ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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2022: a year in moderation
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 ...
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Should the question "Abandon Vim and adopt Neovim" be allowed to remain open?
Abandon Vim and adopt Neovim - hard reasons for not doing so?
Since my alternative multi-question approach does not seem to be gaining support/traction, I must accept the message communicated by that ...
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Please vote on tag synonym [paste] -> [cut-copy-paste]
The tag [paste] is currently used on 26 questions, and has no guidance.
The tag [cut-copy-paste] is currently used on 386 questions, and has the following guidance:
Questions about cutting, copying, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
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 ...
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Is it taboo to encourage or edit answers to be command by command?
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 ...
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Adding a plugin questions
Look at the following question: Adding emmet plugin to Vim in Windows
It seems as if the asker doesn't know how to install a pluign, and though asked a specific question for the plugin he tried to ...
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Excluding a tag in search is hiding the watched tag panel - Can I always show it
I'm trying to exclude neovim questions from vi.stackexchange.com
If I do a search and save that URL the watched tags panel disappears. Is there any way to always show watched tags when executing a ...
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2021: a year in moderation
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 ...
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Please vote on tag synonyms for [tag:indentation]
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
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2020: a year in moderation
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 ...
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Tour page sample 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 ...
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2019: a year in moderation
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, ...
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Why was "Why does the vim-jedi popup have weird line wrapping" closed?
This question was closed earlier today: Why does the vim-jedi popup have weird line wrapping?
The given reason was:
This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced or a ...
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Is [navigation] just [cursor-movement]?
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 (...
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