Questions tagged [cursor-motions]
Commands that moves the cursor. A motion command is used after an operator command to move over the text that is to be operated upon.
1
vote
1answer
58 views
Repeat complicated motions
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
27 views
]m moves to class definitions not method definitions inside nested classes
I am editing a java file.
]m takes me from one class to the next, instead of to the next method definition.
How do I get it to take me between methods?
Example:
public class Baz {
public class ...
1
vote
1answer
24 views
Automatically jump to text object during `ci(`
Suppose my cursor is at the beginning of the line of code:
def f(a, b, c, d, e):
If I want to change inside the parenthesis using the text object command ci(, I need to first navigate to some ...
1
vote
1answer
16 views
Why is :execute required in this --remote-silent command?
Let's say I want to jump to a particular position in a file in an existing Vim server:
This command jumps to the correct line, but not the correct column, leaving the cursor at the start of the line:
...
20
votes
4answers
2k views
Simplest way to delete a “composite” word?
Apologies if "composite" is not the technical term. I mean the following:
Hi, I-am-a-composite-word and we are not
I would like to delete only the composite word. In command mode, if I move the ...
3
votes
2answers
147 views
How to delete entire function definition (C style)
How can I delete the block
int Test()
{
//
}
when my cursor is before int (or even better when it is anywhere on that line)?
The shortest I could come up with is d<line>G where <line> ...
1
vote
1answer
55 views
Is there a text object or motion for non-comment lines are not separated from comment lines by blank lines? E.g., in git commit messages
Consider the text
A
B
# C
# D
Is there a text object or motion that will select lines A and B if the cursor is on either, but not select lines C and D? ap or ip with the cursor on any of those four ...
1
vote
0answers
24 views
How can I prevent <CR> from moving the cursor downward? [duplicate]
In the vim help doc, it says:
*CTRL-M* *<CR>*
[count] lines downward, on the first non-blank character |linewise|.
That is, in the normal mode, <CR> has the same ...
0
votes
1answer
30 views
How to move a line onto the end of some other line
For example suppose i have
1 the cat jumps
2 over the moon
I would like the result
1 the cat jumps over the moon
In general how can I move line X onto the end of line Y. A solution that would ...
1
vote
2answers
47 views
Delete entire block, with the prefixes before the opening {
My problem
Consider a code block prefixed with a few words (function name, for example). The vim cursor is in the middle of the prefix word. The line ends with a {, which declares a block which spans ...
2
votes
1answer
44 views
change inner backslashed quotes
I know the ci" motion and others :changes, but I need something like a ci\" in order to change inner a backslashed quotes. Assuming * as the cursor position:
a = "message says: \"fo*o bar\""
I would ...
2
votes
1answer
33 views
Unable to set iskeyword for colon ( : ) character
I am using vim to edit LaTeX files.
Throughout the text, there are labels to equations, tables etc. for which an accepted convention among TeX writers is the following
\label{eq:massenergy} , \...
0
votes
0answers
20 views
Why does MacVim show `@` and blank space for long strings? [duplicate]
This drives me really insane...
Say I have a short line of text on line 32, and a very long string on line 33, say 10,000 characters long... if I have word-wrap on, it ONLY shows line 32 and stops ...
1
vote
2answers
42 views
Changing content within the specified [count] number of braces for each line
I need to change the content within a [count] number of braces for each line in my buffer.
1 {Lorem} ipsum dolor {amet} blah blah {change this text} more blah blah
2 Hello. The {sun} rises in {the} ...
0
votes
1answer
42 views
`0` only moving to first “visible” column
I have a strange trouble with vim (8.0.95). My format options are fo=cq and nowrap. When I have a long line, which does not fit my terminal window, the view of the file does not include the first ...
0
votes
1answer
32 views
Delete from the next character till EOL
My problem
Consider the following line:
I have just pasted @SrvrlessDaysTLVtlv before tlv@serverlessdays.io, and I'd like to delete anything from the small-case t till EOL.
What have I tried
d$ ...
0
votes
1answer
65 views
Jump to next semicolun
I can use fd to jump to the next d character. How can I jump to the next semicolun? f; doesn't seem to work. Also, for other special symbols.
Thanks
2
votes
3answers
81 views
How to indent one line multiple times?
Like doing >>
but 5 times >>>>>>>>>>>>.
I am not trying to indent multiple lines.
4
votes
4answers
120 views
Delete with search motion in normal command
I am attempting to delete from start of line until string foo. In normal mode, 0d/foo accomplishes this. Now, I would like to do this for every line in my buffer. Reading documentation and SO it ...
3
votes
2answers
378 views
Why does “e” move you one character before the actual end of the word?
Maybe it was discussed many times (I strongly believe), but I could not formulate my question properly. So lets imagine we have this sequence of words:
foo bar baz
Applying 3e will move us onto:
...
0
votes
1answer
30 views
How to replace ) by <left> when closing bracket [config]
I have the following in my .vimrc, it permits to automatically close brackets.
ino " ""<left>
ino ( ()<left>
ino ' ''<left>
ino [ []<left>
ino { {}<left>
What I would ...
0
votes
1answer
51 views
Enable %-key jumping/highlighting for backticks (`) and single-quotes (') in M4 files
Background
When working on .c and .h files, I have a couple options turned on, namely:
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
autocmd BufEnter *.c setlocal tabstop=8 shiftwidth=8 softtabstop=8 ...
0
votes
3answers
51 views
mystery cursor motion
I hope someone can riddle me this one: I have set up the function below to have a slightly more fancy behavior of the End key, moving first to the end of the line, but if the cursor is already at the ...
0
votes
2answers
68 views
Simple modification of behavior of Home, End keys
I'm completely new to Vim scripting, so forgive me if this may seem trivial, but I would like to modify the Behavior of the Home and End keys such that, if the cursor is somewhere between the first ...
0
votes
2answers
100 views
How to make f{char} case insensitive?
Regarding this command:
f{char} To [count]'th occurrence of {char} to the right. The
cursor is placed on {char} |inclusive|.
{char} ...
1
vote
2answers
67 views
How to change f{char} to search left if no char was found searching right?
Regarding this command:
f{char} To [count]'th occurrence of {char} to the right. The
cursor is placed on {char} |inclusive|.
{char} ...
1
vote
1answer
41 views
Key binding to select the current paragraph
I'm using the following key binding to visually select the current paragraph.
nnoremap <leader>v }kV{j
Is works as follows:
} Move below the current paragraph.
k Move one line up.
V Start ...
1
vote
2answers
73 views
How to select/delete/yank the contents of only the current fold?
When using foldmethod=marker, how do you select or reference exactly the contents of the current fold? I want to swap the order of two folds. If they were paragraphs, I would do dap { p. However, I ...
1
vote
2answers
150 views
Move to the first/last non-whitespace character of the column (“vertical W/B/E”)
For instance move from (the cursor is on the letter in bold italic, in the second column)
blablabla
blablabla
blablabla
blablabla
bla
bla
bla
bLablabla
l@st
to
blablabla
blablabla
blablabla
...
4
votes
3answers
159 views
Reverse a set of paragraphs
Is there a good way to reverse a set of paragraphs (navigable via cursor motion { and })? My practical use case is reversing the order of blocks of latex code (ie, reversing the order of jobs in a ...
1
vote
1answer
42 views
How do I move by paragraphs, but end up *in* the paragraph?
So I often use repeated invocations of gqip to re-wrap paragraphs of text or comments.
Unfortunately, the quickest way I've memorized for moving between paragraphs, }, lands me between them:
Qui⁁ut ...
2
votes
4answers
273 views
Delete from cursor position to end of text object
I often find myself in this situation:
\foo{\bar abc \baz{def} more stuff}
↑
and I want to change anything from the cursor position to the correct enclosing brace. In simple cases, ct} ...
3
votes
1answer
143 views
:exe moves cursor to first line of buffer
function! DebugC()
let l:debugStr = "printf(\"" . s:debugPrefixStr . s:debugCounter . "\");"
if g:debugstringAlwaysIncludeHeader
let l:incStr = "#include <stdio.h>; "
...
0
votes
1answer
39 views
Delete to next search result?
I often use dt, but that only deletes to a character. Is there something like dt that lets me type in a search instead of a single char? I would want to delete from my current cursor to that first ...
1
vote
1answer
53 views
Why doesn't “normal! lb” on last character of line move to beginning of word?
Let's say I have the text:
foo bar baz
With the cursor on z, I would expect :normal! lb to move the cursor to the first letter of baz. In actual fact the cursor does not move.
However typing :...
1
vote
2answers
61 views
How do I prepend text preserving camelcase
A common process for me is to have a camelCased word that I wish to prepend to. I find the vanilla method a little too cumbersome as I will describe below. What I'm wondering is if there is a better ...
1
vote
3answers
104 views
A version of `w` which skips to the next underscore
I frequently work with code style which asks that many non-class symbols use snake_case -- Python, Ruby, and C especially. If I have a symbol like longfirstpart_longsecondpart, I'd like to be able to ...
2
votes
1answer
67 views
How to move to top/bottom of region delimited by consecutive blank lines
I have two commands for somewhat emulating the Emacs command narrow-to-defun.
I have two commands that move to the top/bottom of the current paragraph
nnoremap <silent> <leader>gt mp{...
2
votes
3answers
252 views
How to get around this common multiple-cursors use case?
I have a lot of difficulty doing things like the following in Vim:
From
1 'apple'
2 'orange'
3 'pear'
4 $fruit1 =
5 $fruit2 =
6 $fruit3 =
To
1
2
3
4 $fruit1 = 'apple';
5 $fruit2 = 'orange';
6 $...
4
votes
3answers
280 views
How to use 'w' to navigate in CamelCase words?
How would I use set iskeyword to be able to use w to count Capital letters as words?
For example for the following sentence,
ThisIsAShortSentence
Pressing w will jump from T -> I -> A -> S -> S
3
votes
2answers
121 views
Highlight everything inside (, [, and { and expand outwards
Suppose I have a line of text of the form (123[456{789}abc]def) and the cursor is inside the curly braces. In sublime text, we can use ctrl-shift-m repeatedly to jump to highlighting 789, {789}, 456{...
1
vote
2answers
64 views
Replace a word in a stream of words separated with underscore
Does anyone know a quick shortcut I can use to replace a word in a series of words connected with underscores?
Given:
Create_in_one_of_these_words
I want to make, where | is cursor:
Create_in_|...
3
votes
0answers
66 views
how to delete a paragraph respecting the folds?
I have a file (filetype=javascript), this is how it looks without folds:
and with folds:
I can move with the { and } motions skipping the empty lines inside the folds (thanks to these question and ...
0
votes
1answer
75 views
Jump to specific character after cursor
What I want to do is jump to the first instance of character < X > after the cursor.
I already know how to achieve this on the current line, but I was wondering if there was a way to apply this to ...
0
votes
1answer
418 views
how to remap backtick mark with single-quote mark globally [duplicate]
I want to swap ' with ` for all combinations of commands in normal mode.
I have tried the following:
nnoremap ' `
nnoremap ` '
It works for commands like '', ``, but failed for d'', y'', etc.
...
4
votes
1answer
52 views
How to search in visual mapping?
I am trying to create a text object for consecutive lower-case letters.
Here is how I am setting up the inner text object:
xnoremap in :<C-u>normal! ?[^a-z]?e+1<CR>v/[^a-z]/s-1<CR>
...
0
votes
1answer
45 views
How can you turn off text highlighting (hlsearch) with custom text objects?
I am implementing a custom text object in visual mode, but this text object uses regular expressions to find the beginning and ending of the selection. However, when I do this, other parts of the text ...
2
votes
0answers
141 views
Using text objects with IJKL navigation keys
Like many people, I prefer a triangular or inverse-T navigation key format like IJKL instead of HJKL for ergonomic reasons. There's a pretty simple way to set this up in vim that I've used for years:
...
2
votes
1answer
64 views
Prepare a range for an ex command without visual mode or line numbers
Background:
I can pipe a paragraph through an external command using !ip and the cursor goes to the end of the following prompt:
:.,.+5!
If I want to use the built-in sort or center functions I ...
0
votes
2answers
73 views
Ammend 'w' behavior - ignore operators and brackets - '(', '[' '{', '*', '+', '='
As the title says. Is it possible?
Steps to reproduce:
Type in sample(text) and put the cursor on the first character then press w.
Expected behavior:
Cursor moves to beginning of next word - text
...
