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I recently found the awesome plugin named CamelCaseMotion which is awesome. I used their suggested mappings in my .vimrc for the plugin like this: map <silent> w <Plug>CamelCaseMotion_w ...

I remap Shift + k to noh, but once I installed ale, it is no longer working since one of the command on the package uses the shortcut. At least as far as I know, I feel that it is related to ...

I've mapped control-m to start the Syntastic check mode (Active/Passive) nnoremap <c-m> :SyntasticToggleMode<Cr> But in normal mode, when I tap the return key, it also toggles the mode. ...

In answering a question just now, I mentioned using a normal mode key mapping that can be found at the Vim Tips Wiki. In the middle of explaining the key mapping, I realized that I had no idea what &...

When I hit the arrow keys in insert mode I get characters instead of navigation: I'd like to be able to use the arrow keys to navigate. Things I've tried I have set nocompatible in my ~/.vimrc (...

I'm trying to setup mappings for <C-]> that, depending on the buffer's file type, trigger different functions. For example, if I'm in a Javascript buffer, I want <C-]> to trigger :TernDef. ...

I am trying to figure out how to navigate windows little quicker, so I would like to map the following: :nmap <silent> <C-F> :wincmd f<CR> The problem is this remaps the ^f (lower-...

I edit file /home/me/projects/myproj/src/util.c And want to start terminal at /home/me/projects/myproj/src. Vim version > 8 so I can run :terminal but it always starts at folder in which I've opened ...

In .vimrc: inoremap ii <esc> " ii to go back into command mode The problem is, after ii, cursor jumps 35 columns right. The only other line which affects Esc: ...

I came across <Plug> in this command of easy-motion nmap <Leader>w <Plug>(easymotion-overwin-w) I tried to search for the definition of but no luck. What does it mean? Does it have ...

I am using zsh, urxvt, tmux and in there vim. I am not 100% sure who causes the effect but I would like to bind something to ctrl and m but not to carriage return in vim. Does somebody how this is ...

For example, easy clip has this mapping when you run smap k: s k * <C-o>"_ck The asterisk and <C-o> are highlighted.

I found that I frequently needed a command in INSERT mode to open a line above the cursor (what O does in NORMAL mode) I put this in my .vimrc inoremap ao <esc>O It works well. I chose the ...

I usually use gvim and it understands the mapping similar to inoremap <C-Space> <C-n> inoremap <C-S-Space> <C-p> Now I'm testing nvim and I can use the Ctrl+Space. But Ctrl+...

I want ctrl-h, ctrl-j, ctrl-k and ctrl-l in insert mode to behave like the arrow keys. I have this (among other things) in my .vimrc: inoremap <C-j> <Down> inoremap <C-k> <Up&...

In my vimrc I have nnoremap <Leader>h :bp<CR> nnoremap <Leader>l :bn<CR> But I have to source my vimrc to enable them with (:so $MYVIMRC). If I do a :map after starting vim I ...

In browsing markdown files, I find the following search useful /\v^(\*|#) However, when I try to map it I get an error nmap <c-j> /\v^(\*|#)<cr> E488: Trailing characters: #) What ...

I tried mapping control-H, J, K, and L respectively in insert mode to move around splits. inoremap <C-h> <ESC><C-W><C-h>i inoremap <C-l> <ESC><C-W><C-l&...

When I type [[ or ]] in normal mode, cursor is jumping previous / next "class definition" during editing python (.py) file. I want to map these shortcuts to SHIFT + UP and SHIFT + DOWN. And I added ...

I am trying to map Ctrl + q to quit editing the file. I added the below line to my .vimrc nnoremap <C-q> :execute "q"<CR> On pressing the above key combination, nothing happens, vim ...

So I want to disable the arrow keys in insert mode. So I added the following lines at the end of ~/.vimrc: inoremap <up> <nop> inoremap <down> <nop> inoremap <left> <...

I use vim a lot to edit tex files. When I have lines spanning multiple display lines, most of the time I want to navigate through them with gj not j (i.e. according to displayed lines, not physical ...

I can resize horizontal split windows by ctrl-w-shift-< and ctrl-w-shift->. I would like to have a shortcut for that. Close to the topic, recently I learned about the following maps: nnoremap &...

I want to map <M-h> to ← in insert mode. I add imap <M-h> <Left> to .vimrc. But if I press <M-h>, Help menu will pop up. How to disable this and force <M-h> to ←...

(NB: I've moved this question from another SE site, let me know if thats not ok and I can take this down) I'm having issues remapping Ctrl+Shift+c to copy visually selected text to the + register. ...

I have inoremap jj <ESC> in my vimrc on my Ubuntu 16.04. I have no idea why my jj not working and its just typing literally <ESC> in my text file for my jj press. Any idea how can I get ...

I would like to execute a shell script, with parameters, from vim by mapping it to F6, however the current mapping I have in my .vimrc isn't working: " Map F6 to sync project changes to dev server ...

I can expand a vertical split screen to occupy most of the area using Ctrl+w+| Now I would like to map that shortcut to Ctrl+m. I tried the following but it failed. nnoremap <C-m> <C-W&...

I'm trying to have something like this in my .vimrc: nnoremap <leader>has :w | ! reset; runhaskell % <cr> How ever, now it prompts an error when loading .vimrc and tells me: :! reset; ...

Hello Vimmers and LaTeXers, I cannot get Alt-I to work in vim-latex. It is supposed to insert \item depending on the environment that you are in. Do I need to activate it somehow? Is there a setting ...

Description: In my Konsole the key mappings for changing tabs to left and right are Shift-left and Shift-right (where left/right are the arrow keys). What I'm trying to do is to map F2 in vim to ...

I am using a macbook with touchbar. As many others I would like to map a different key to the esc key, since the touchbar esc is a bit inconvenient. My problem is that I have some weird behaviour of ...

I'm using these keyboard shortcuts to navigate/manipulate tabs in MacVim " tab navigation nnoremap <silent> <S-Left> :tabprevious<CR> nnoremap <silent> <S-Right> :...

I know that similar things were asked here several times. I know that to repeat a motion ; works. Unless it doesn't(in case there is count for example), but then repmo.vim usually works. And I know ...

In my vimrc I have a shortcut for opening a vertical split: let mapleader = ',' map <leader>v :vsplit<CR> " ,v for vsplit map <leader>s :split<CR> " ,s for split This has ...

I would think this would work to make backspace delete the entire previous word in insert mode: imap <BS> <C-W> but it doesn't. Tried in vim 8.0 and neovim 0.2.2 iterm2 if that matters. ...

Neither of the following mappings do anything in neovim in iterm2 on mac inoremap <C-BS> <Esc><Right>s inoremap <S-BS> <Esc><Right>s Is mapping backspace like ...

I'm using basic version vimrc from https://github.com/amix/vimrc. No problem if I put my vimrc at /home/{user}/.vimrc, but if I put it in /etc/vimrc (arch) or /etc/vim/vimrc (debian), it becomes a ...

I have this mapping to surround a Word with jQuery id selector $("#...") and it works fine using a command: command! JqId normal viwo^[i#^[ysiW"ysiW)i$^[E nnoremap <Leader>jqid :JqId<CR> ...

My vim doesn't represent the uppercase letter q Q? How to fix this? Here is my vimrc : set nocompatible " be iMproved, required filetype off " required syntax on set ...

Coming from non-modal editors, I still get confused with e, w, b in Vim. One feature I like about non-modal editors is jumping words by simply combining Ctrl with ←→ arrow. So I thought I ...

I have the following mappings: nnoremap <C-,> :tabe ~/.config/nvim/init.vim<cr> nnoremap <C-/> gcc Neither of these mappings is working - they both do nothing. I have a plugin ...

I configured mutt to use vim as an editor to write emails (with set editor=vim in .muttrc), and I have noticed that when I am in tmux (with an empty .tmux.conf), the vim keybinding CTRL-K in insert ...

I have this shorcut in my vimrc that I use all the time (admittedly, I just copied it over from the web): " bind K to grep word under cursor nnoremap K :grep! "\b<C-R><C-W>\b"<CR>:...

The vim version on my Mac is 8.1.1000, installed by homebrew: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Mar 11 2019 08:36:53) macOS version Included patches: 1-1000 Compiled by Homebrew Huge ...

I have a bash command that will align text into a tabular form. If I have input such as this: A | B | C Alpha | Beta | Gamma 12 | 34.56 | 78.9 I can run cat test.txt | sed -e 's/|/'$'\001''|/g' | ...

I have the following in my vimrc: nnoremap <C-J> o<Esc>k$ nnoremap <C-K> O<Esc>j$ The bottom mapping works as expected, but c-j now produces the same effect as i (which is ...

I want to replace the default behavior of the arrows in insert mode, so that they behave like gk and gj, I have used: inoremap <up> <Esc>gka inoremap <down> <Esc>gja But this ...

I am trying to map the NERDCommenterToggle command from the nerdcommenter plugin. I want to use "Ctrl+/" for this: vmap <C-/> <plug>NERDCommenterToggle nmap <C-/> <plug&...

When I press 0 in Normal mode, the cursor goes to the second column and not the first one. This is not the normal behavior stated in vim's :help 0. I have tried disabling the remaps to move between ...