vim
I am new to Vim. I'm following these tutorials to help me learn to use it.
But some of my commands are not working, for example:
Capital W.
f followed by a character. (To move to next same char.)
Why is this happening and how can I get these commands to work?
For gEdit
there does not seem to be a way to disable having a newline inserted at the end see this answer.
For Vim (and gVim
) you can - by executing the following option:
:set binary. Setting to binary will save the file as is and not insert a newline at the end of the document (Unless there already is one, in which it will be retained). At anytime you can revert this option with :set nobinary.
Nano is a little easier. You can launch nano with the
-L flag (or --nonewlines if you're more the visual type). This will disable the automatic addition of the newline to the end of the file (so long as one was not actually entered). Ideally you could setup this alias in your ~/.bashrc: alias nano="nano -L", which would launch Nano with the no newlines flag included in it!
Since I don't know exactly what you're doing I'm going to point you to Why should files end with a newline? which may explain why they're there. In short some applications will fail if they don't find an EOL directly before the EOF
I have found the reason those escape appear by disabling everything in my .vimrc file and reenabling incrementally. For those people with the same problem, it is caused by the following setting in the .vimrc file:
set visualbell "Use a visual error indicator instead of a beep
Removing the above line fixed the problem.
Silly and logical, but well... There you have it.
Best Answer
this may be because by default Ubuntu has a cut down version of vim called
vim-tinyand many commands don't work invim-tiny. To get full functionality you need to installvim. You can installvimwith following commandTry these commands after installing vim and let me know if you still have problems.