Unanswered Questions
37 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Can syntax highlighting be made available?
While I wouldn't expect vimscript to be immediately available for highlighting, I think other languages aren't available either. I just tried to add it to this answer using both <!-- language: bash ...
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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, ...