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How to duplicate a whole line in Vim?

How do I duplicate a whole line in Vim in a similar way to Ctrl+D in IntelliJ IDEA/ Resharper …

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Make Vim show ALL white spaces as a character

I can't find a way to make Vim show all white spaces as a character. All I found was about …

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How to make vim paste from (and copy to) system's clipboard?

Unlike other editors, vim stores copied text in its own clipboard. So, it's very hard for me to copy some …

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Move cursor to end of file in vim

When I want the cursor to go to the end of the file (i.e. the end of the last …

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How to effectively work with multiple files in Vim

I've started using Vim to develop Perl scripts and am starting to find it very powerful. One thing I like …

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Where is my .vimrc file?

I have been using Vim, and I would really like to save my settings. The problem I am having is …

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Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim

If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M. How do I delete these characters …

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How to copy to clipboard in Vim?

Is it possible to copy to clipboard directly from Vim? yy only copies stuff to Vim's internal buffer. I want …

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Vim clear last search highlighting

After doing a search in Vim, I get all the occurrences highlighted. How can I disable that? I now do …

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How to do case insensitive search in Vim

I'd like to search for an upper case word, for example COPYRIGHT in a file. I tried performing a search …

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