How do I temporarily disable the matchparen plugin in Vim?
:NoMatchParen
Vim's built-in matchparen plugin highlights matching delimiters as your cursor moves.
plugins #plugins #performance #editing #autocommands #delimiters
Tag: autocommands
How do I briefly highlight text after yanking it to get visual confirmation of what was copied?
autocmd TextYankPost
The TextYankPost event fires immediately after any yank operation completes — including y, Y, dd, dw, and any other command that writes to a register.
How do I programmatically exit insert mode from an autocommand or Vimscript function?
:stopinsert
:stopinsert is an Ex command that immediately exits insert (or replace) mode and returns to normal mode.
command-line #insert-mode #ex-commands #autocommands #normal-mode
How do I trigger an autocommand action after the cursor has been idle for a set period?
CursorHold
The CursorHold autocommand event fires once whenever the cursor has been motionless in normal mode for updatetime milliseconds.
How do I temporarily disable all autocommands when running an Ex command?
:noautocmd {command}
The :noautocmd prefix (abbreviated :noa) suppresses all autocommand events for the duration of the following command.
command-line #ex-commands #autocommands #performance #command-line #scripting
How do I write autocommands that don't duplicate when I reload my vimrc?
augroup name | autocmd! | autocmd ... | augroup END
Autocommand groups (augroup) with autocmd! prevent duplicate autocommands from accumulating every time you source your vimrc.