Practical Vim

Change Vim’s Settings on the Fly

Vim has hundreds of options that let us customize its behavior (see option-list​ for the full list). We can use the :set command to change them.

Let’s take the ‘ignorecase’ setting as an example (as discussed in Tip 72). This is a boolean option: it can either be on or off. We can enable it by running this:

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To turn this feature off, we prefix the name of the setting with the word “no”:

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If we append a trailing bang symbol after a boolean option, we can toggle the setting:

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If we append a trailing question mark, we can find out what the option ...