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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Can a Fakevim tag be added?
Fakevim exists in QtCreator, and I have a few questions specifically pertinent to it.
There is no tag for it yet though, and I have not enough reputation to create it.
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Should we do something about the [untagged] tag?
I just noticed that the tag untagged as been created some days ago.
At the time I write this question is it used for two questions:
How can I inspire others to use vi/Vim?
How much money has been ...
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Should the answer be downvoted in case if it might rise to issues though it is a correct answer for this question and solves it
An answer for a question solves what the user wanted, in particular.
However, in rare cases, user might get a problem. The answer might have a side effect, that too rarely. The answer might have left ...
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Can I answer a question after it has got an accepted answer or a better answer?
I would like to know whether I can answer a question under these circumstances:
The question has an accepted answer. But my answer isn't as good as it is. It is a different approach and can be used ...
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Could we get a logo for our stack exchange?
It's nothing too important but I think it'd be nice if we had some logo/picture to identify with. I wouldn't really consider myself an artist but I'd be willing to put up a few designs if people were ...
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Prettify for Vimscript - suggestions?
Syntax highlighting has recently been enabled for our site (thanks!). However, Google Prettify doesn't support Vimscript out of the box. What can we do to remedy this? If we can give SE a good ...
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How does this site feel about code review questions?
For those who are unfamiliar with it, the Code Review Stack Exchange site deals with reviewing working code for feedback on
Best practices and design pattern usage
Security issues
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Is something (or someone) automatically upvoting every new post?
These last few days (let's say maybe a week or two) I feel like every single new post (questions and answers) gets an upvote almost automatically only a few minutes after they are posted and no matter ...
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Should short answers be posted as comments?
There was already an excellent case against answers in comments made over in the Unix & Linux stack exchange meta. (Well worth reading!)
I want to discuss this here on the vi and Vim meta, ...
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Is SE Vi and Vim allowing "Thanks"?
I am certainly not wishing to kick up a fuss, I am merely trying to clear up a somewhat unclear point, so that I don't end up annoying anyone.
I have been under the impression, that while a valid (...
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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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How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example?
I have been asked to provide a "Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example" (MCVE) in my question. What is this, and why should I include it?
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What is a good way to record a Vim gif to include in a Stackexchange post? [duplicate]
It is always nice to have a short demo screencast/gif in a Stackexchange post. What is a good way to record those?
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Could we hold a tip of the week event (in meta) [duplicate]
On another discussion I recently suggested that we could try having a recurring tip-of-the-week event here in meta, similar to what Photo.SE does (they hold a contest). It could even help build ...
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Happy birthday, Vi and Vim!
So, it's been a year since we entered private beta. From Area 51:
4.4 questions per day
91% answered
1.7 answer ratio
1,251 visits/day
For a few months now, we have held steady on these stats (...
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Running Vim on Windows: is there a best way?
Can I even ask about how to "best" install Vim on windows? I generally a have a unix problem there... and it affects vim in that gVim mostly works, but then some odd things aren't working (like tab ...
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Should we allow questions on ctags / cscope
Ctags / Cscope are very popular frameworks that are utilized in VIM.
Should we allow questions regarding ctags/cscope ?
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What do you think about "tricks" questions? [duplicate]
I just recently asked Jumping to *just before* the nth occurence? and found a great command I had been unaware of. Well, now I'm thinking about a follow-up:
What are your quick tricks for jumping ...
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Do we have a tag for user defined commands questions?
Currently, tags containing the word command on our site are the following:
command-line for questions about ex mode commands (accessed with :).
external-command for questions about calling shell ...
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How to deal with opinion based questions?
I am not sure how I should deal with some questions I have that may be considered opinion-based.
Example
I recently read this reddit article about the shortcortcomings of netrw (bad code base ...
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What's on-topic here?
I just noticed that this question was closed for being off-topic:
How to set my terminal to use solarized palette?
I can't imagine using Vim without a different colourscheme, and a slightly ...
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Is there a good timing to mark an answer as accepted?
My question comes from different observations:
This site is still in beta, and the stats on area51 shows that one point which needs to be improved on this site is the answer ratio: At the time of the ...
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How do we share general Vim experience? Or can we?
I recently mod-closed https://vi.stackexchange.com/q/3620/205, since questions of this type (unending low-quality answers, very subjectve, etc.), are frowned upon on Stack Exchange. There has, ...
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Should I delete my question?
Related: What do we do with questions that are already answered somewhere else on SE.
I recently asked this question.
Before asking, I tried googling and searching in vi.SE but failed to find ...
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Is asking for recommendations about plugins on topic? [duplicate]
Can a question such as below be on topic ?
If it is off topic, why is it off topic ?
And how should I improve it to make it on topic ?
I'm curious about finding plugins used by developers who write ...
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Custom off-topic close reasons
We can set up to 3 custom close reasons. Do we want any custom close reasons?
From What do site moderators need to do to support the new custom question close reasons?:
This can be tricky; your goal ...
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What do we do about users that steal others' ideas/answers/material?
I recently asked a question on vi.se (I'm not going to narrow things down any more as I don't want to make this directly personal). I had a good dialogue in the comments with user B, narrowing down a ...
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Should we post our new Vim problems as questions here even if answers appear on other sites?
There's tons of stuff I don't know about Vim despite using it on three OSes since 1993 or 94, so I keep running into new problems which are surely old problems "out there".
Should I post my new ...
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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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The plugins tag
plugins currently has this excerpt:
Vim's plugin system. DO NOT use this for questions that may require a plugin. For plugin-specific questions, use the appropriate plugin-* tag for those.
However,...
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Etiquette: Review request for a tag that I think should be removed
I have a queued review request for the count tag. At the time of writing, this tag has 3 questions -- one with an accepted answer, one that's marked as a duplicate of the former, and one for which the ...
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What's difference between ex and ex-mode tags?
There are two tags ex and ex-mode.
However I'm not quite sure what's the difference?
Is ex indicates the command-line (ex tool), and ex-mode means working in Ex mode (vim -E)? Isn't it the same?
If ...
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<KBD> combo normalization
Should we enforce, by edit when we see it, a normalized <kbd>-combo norm?
Examples of how it is used are:
Altv
Alt+v
Alt+v
Alt + v
Alt + V
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Of those I favor number five, four being second. ...
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Is there a simpler way to link to the help?
Many answers (and some questions) include information from vim's builtin documentation. I often find myself on google looking for an HTML version of the vim help, so I can link to it in my answers.
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What is on topic here that cannot be asked on SO?
What is on-topic on Vi and Vim Stack Exchange that isn't on Stack Overflow? I don't get it: what's the point of this site? What could I ask here that I cannot ask on Stack Overflow, where there's ...
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Should Vi.SE be self-contained (as much as that is possible)? [duplicate]
This is probably something a lot of you have already thought about, but it doesn't seem to have been addressed here on meta (or I didn't manage to find the post).
A lot of topics, problems and ...
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Capitalisation of "vi"
General usage seems to be that vi begins with a lower-case V, and that proper names that begin with a lower-case letter should continue to do so both in title-case contexts and at the start of ...
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Should we have a tag to indicate a question doesn't want external tools involed - e.g. Purely Vi[m]
A few questions explicitly ask for a solution where the editor performs the task itself without having to resort to external filters/tools. This is either in the main body of the question or in a ...
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What should the on-topic section of our Help Center contain?
Our current /help/on-topic page is just the default boilerplate, and doesn't really help new users learn what kind of questions are on-topic here. It's definitely in need of improvement.
What topics ...
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How we can change unicorns eating daisies?
Going to tour page, it has fictive question and answer.
How this can be changed to some more practical examples?
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Should we allow evil questions? [duplicate]
In an answer to a related question about vi-mode in bash, an answerer asked what would be next. Given that the operating system that shall not be named (the one that swaps constantly, even given 8 MB ...
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Let's make some ads for our site!
The members of Programming Puzzles and Code Golf have made a few Community Promotion Ads in order to promote themselves on other sites:
Note: this may or may not be blatant self-promotion come visit ...
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How do we exit public beta (i.e., what are the criteria)?
Now we've made it into public beta (yay!), in a similar vein to this question, what are the criteria (objective or subjective) we need to hit to have this site exit public beta and become a fully-...
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Tags for visual select vs. visual mode
We have a visual-mode tag and a visual-select tag.
The problem is that the term "visual mode" is overloaded: there's visual mode and there's the :visual command to return from Ex mode to Normal mode.
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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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If this site doesn't make it out of private beta, what happens to all the Q&A?
I'm trying to encourage myself to participate in the private beta of vi.SE, but I have to be honest and say that one thing that holds me back somewhat is the thought that if the gods of SE don't deem ...
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What's the point of using OS tags?
What's the point of using OS dependend tags such as microsoft-windows, unix and linux?
It seems that OS-dependent editors (such as gVim/MacVim) interface related questions are off-topic (this one ...
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When would the private beta be ready for public beta? [duplicate]
Currently the site is in private beta, so all the questions/links are not accessible by non-users. The site already has over 240 questions and it'll pass 2 weeks soon.
When would the site be ...
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Who are our nominees for the moderator positions?
The community's thoughts on moderator nominees are apparently considered by SE for appointing moderators pro tempore. They look for members who:
Have a reasonably high reputation score to ...
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Are vipe questions on topic? [duplicate]
Vipe is a Vim command pipe editor which allows you to run a text editor in the middle of a unix pipeline and edit the data that is being piped between programs.
It's something considered to be on ...
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