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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Are gVim and MacVim interface questions on topic? [duplicate]
Are gVim and MacVim questions related to interface (such as menu, tabs, settings) on topic? Or just plain vim commands?
Related:
What is considered to be vi?
Are questions about bvi on-topic?
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Are vi/Vintage question in Sublime Text editor on topic? [duplicate]
Sublime Text has vi integration by providing package called Vintage. It is there by default.
Are vi commands (Vintage) in Sublime Text editor on topic?
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Should we encourage asking questions that are already on another SE site? [duplicate]
Before vi.SE entered private beta, many of us found answers to legitimate vi/vim questions in other sites, such as SO, tex.SE, etc.
Should we encourage vi.SE users to scavenge other SE sites for ...
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Minimize keystrokes tag
I think we should have a tag e.g. minimize-keystrokes for questions that are about doing a particular task in as few keystrokes as possible.
Faster way to move a block of text
Move vertically to a ...
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Should I ask and self-answer a basic question about pasting a line multiple times? [duplicate]
I'm a long time vim user, but I just learned recently that I can paste the yanked lines several times. I think most new users wouldn't know this.
Is it okay if I ask about this, and answer myself?
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Has sombody already asked about setting up tabs correctly on another site [duplicate]
It seems like setting up tabs and its spacing in vim should be trivial but; but in IMO it is actually a non trivial task (to get all the settings correct and working together).
But I have not seen ...
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Ask and answering your own question
I have a whole bunch of questions that I asked when I first started using vim. So I have an answer for them now. So I can keep asking and answering my own questions like:
How do I use vim as a diff ...
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Why was "How much money has been raised for needy children in Uganda from Vim" closed?
Why was this question closed with "This question does not appear to be about Vi and Vim family of editors?"
How much money has been raised for needy children in Uganda from Vim?
It's about Vim
it's ...
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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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How can we attract users who don't categorize themselves as programmers?
Jon Ericson makes an interesting point in his recent answer (well, really, just reiterates the same point he's been making for weeks, albeit not an insubstantial one): In order to become a successful ...
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How to tag questions about working with source code in a particular language?
Currently, Folding fails: vim can't find any fold is tagged with folding php.
Should we have specific tags for questions about editing source code in a particular programming language?
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Do we want to allow questions that are effectively "lists of things"?
Do we want to allow questions that are effectively "lists of things"? There have
been a number of these questions, for example:
Resources for scripting vim with python [on hold]
What is an effective ...
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What vim questions should remain out of scope for this site?
Do we intend this to be the site for all questions related to Vi and Vim on the Stack Exchange network? Are there any questions that should be off-topic for this site but still on-topic elsewhere?
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Should screenshots be encouraged?
Should the use of images in questions and answers be encouraged?
I think there are definitely times when it's hard to explain the problem without an image, but at other times it's reasonable to ask a ...
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Is it ok to ask a generic question like "what commands are useful"?
Here is a question that would seem to have a lot of opinions for answers. Are questions like this ok?
It's asking about what commands is ex mode are actually useful.
Does Ex mode have any practical ...
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What criteria do we need to meet to ensure Vi and Vim continues beyond private beta?
This is the first StackExchange site I've been involved in as a private beta. I've heard murky rumours that not all sites make it past this phase; how can I understand what criteria this site will ...
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Is it OK to mark a question as a duplicate where the question and solution is similar, but about different topics?
This question on filetypes for Markdown is close to being closed as a duplicate of this
question on the .sage/Python extension type. To be fair, both the theme of the question (associating a filetype ...
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What do we do about software recommendation questions?
In my short time at AskUbuntu, I have seen software recommendation questions ("What IDEs are available?", "What rich text editors are available?" [that one was actually asked, answered and upvoted ...
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It is ok to ask questions involving tmux, terminal, or iTerm 2?
Tmux is often used in conjunction with vim, and sometimes I don't even know if the problem I'm experiencing is with vim, tmux, or my terminal.
So, is it ok to ask questions about tmux, or the ...
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Are answers offering plugins that address the question "link-only" answers?
There are quite a few questions one could ask about vim that can be legitimately answered with "yes, here's a link to a plugin that does exactly that."
For example:
How can I comment code with a ...
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How to include .vimrc for analyze?
When people have issue where Vim is not working as expected the root cause can (often) be tracked back to .vimrc (or an outdated / buggy plugin). As people often do not know which part of the rc file ...
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Are vimgolf questions on-topic?
This was also discussed in the proposal. In fact, this question is a copy of that question.
Would asking vimgolf style questions be on topic on vi/vim? This is a type of question that is poorly ...
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Adding in links to vimdoc
When I post on AskUbuntu or Unix & Linux, I like to add links to manpages (such as Ubuntu's, or linux.die.net's) of the commands that I use, or if someone posts an answer mentioning man foo, but ...
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Are questions about `bvi` on-topic?
bvi is a vi-like hex editor. Are questions about bvi on-topic?
It's an editor
I'm not sure how compatible it is, but AFAIK it's mostly compatible with vi
It's a standalone program
So it seems to ...
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Any ideas for a logo?
Any ideas for a logo?
Perhaps something like :vi, :help vi, or :ask-vi (not like this, but properly drawn as a key).
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Do we really need the [vim] tag?
Theoretically, vim is supposed to be used to specify that the question is specific to the Vim, that is, Vi IMproved by Bram Moolenaar.
However, it appears that this is rarely the case in practice, ...
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How to create screencasts?
How does one go about creating screencasts, like this one?
Also see the related question: Should the use of screencasts be encouraged?
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Should the use of screencasts be encouraged?
Should we encourage the use of screencasts like this one?
If so, what minimum standards should there be for the image alt text and accompanying explanation?
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What tags should be avoided, and why?
To prevent the tagging system from becoming a mess, let's assemble a list of tags that are a bad idea, and what the suggested good alternatives are.
One topic per answer, please.
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What tag synonyms should be created? [closed]
Since the regular tag synonym suggestion mechanism is essentially completely broken on this site, please post your tag synonym suggestions below. One suggestion per answer, please.
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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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Should there be a separate tag for each plugin?
Should we have a separate tag for each plugin, instead of a generic plugin tag to cover them all?
If so, what should be the naming convention for such tags?
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Should questions about bash's vi mode be on-topic?
Should questions about bash's vi mode (or readline in general) be on-topic?
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Would debugging help with custom syntax highlighting .vim files be on topic?
I wrote a custom syntax highlighting .vim file that doesn't work. Would posting it and explaining what it's supposed to do be on topic?
What if I was able to write an MCVE?
In either case, would the ...
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What do we do with questions that are already answered somewhere else on SE?
The title kind of says it all. I'm asking, because this
Performing certain operations without clearing register question seems to be sufficiently answered https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54255/in-...
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Should we have single character tags for specific commands?
Do we want to have tags like x Or possibly group them together, like hjkl, or an aaiioo? (aside: apparently tags are not case sensitive)
They could be synonymed to things like delete, movement, or ...
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Do we want questions for tutorials?
On the question "What is an effective way to learn vimscript?," the following comment received a few upvotes, and I think we should clear this on meta:
IMHO this question is off-topic because it is ...
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Let's think of a creative name for our chatroom
The chatroom name is so bland. "Vim." Look at all the creative names others have thought up:
"Root Access" for Super User
"The DMZ" for Security
"The Renderfarm" for Blender
"The Litter Box" for Pets
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To what extent should programming-related questions be on-topic?
This might be a big issue that we have to resolve before getting out of private/public beta: How programming-related can questions on Vim.SE be?
For example, questions about using Vim as a ...
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Tag [programming] and related
I think we have some tag confusion that should be resolved as soon as possible. (Maybe I'm just too cautious, but we all know how mass tag edits are bad.)
It's programming. From this tag name, it's ...
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Is vimscript a reasonable tag?
I just opened a question about vimscript. Irrespective of the merits of that particular question, does it make sense to use the vimscript tag? Arguably many/most questions about vim will end up with a ...
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How much should we indulge questions about plugins?
Lots of very useful vim functionality is available these days through plugins, supported by plugin managers such as Pathogen. I would guess that most experienced vim users use plugins - I certainly do....
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Is it possible (and does it make sense) to migrate vi/vim-related questions from other SO sites?
There are lots of high-quality vi and vim questions on other Stack Exchange sites; for example, see all the questions tagged vim on SuperUser.
Is it possible (and does it make sense) to migrate some ...
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Are questions about installation of vi(m) and related software on-topic?
Are installation and associated troubleshooting questions on-topic for this site, or do we want to focus on questions/answers that improve users' actual usage of vi(m) and related software?
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What is considered to be vi?
/bin/vi, as written by Bill Joy in the '70's is vi. And /usr/bin/vim, as written by Bram in the '90's, is vim.
But we also have neovim now, nvi (mostly the same as Joy's vi, except when it's not), ...
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Should we use <kbd> in Markdown to indicate normal mode / insert mode keystrokes?
To indicate in questions and answers that keystrokes are being typed in normal mode or insert mode, should <kbd> be the convention?
Or should we use backticks?
Also, should we lead off ex ...
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Should questions and answers assume the use of Vim?
I believe that, these days, most users are using something very close to Bram Moolenaar's Vim, rather than an editor derived from Bill Joy's vi. Furthermore, most of the operations can be done more ...
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Is it ok to ask beginner level question?
I am new to using vim. So I think my questions will be in the beginners level only. Should I wait till public beta to ask my questions? Will asking beginner level question impede the site from being ...
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Should we have separate tags [vi] and [vim]?
Vim is almost a proper superset of vi, but they're still two different editors, with two different names. Should we create vi and vim?
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