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.
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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 ...
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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{...
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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
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2
3
4 $fruit1 = 'apple';
5 $fruit2 = 'orange';
6 $...
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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
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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{...
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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_|...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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>
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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 ...
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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:
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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 ...
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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
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How do I apply the Lowercase action to a line movement?
From the vim-as-language article:
Vim’s "verbs" mostly fall into 2 main categories. Some of them act on a single character, and others act on a "motion" or "text object".
And from the vim wiki for ...
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Prevent the cursor from moving to the top of the file
I started using Seeing is Believing
and updated my vimrc:
nmap <leader>s A # => <Esc>:%.!seeing_is_believing --timeout 12 --line-length 500 --number-of-captures 300 --alignment-...
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Linewise inner tag without the tag lines?
An example HTML, with the cursor where the brackets are:
<foo>
<bar>
baz
quux
[]
</bar>
</foo>
I would like to outdent the text inside <...
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Control - Arrow to Skip Over Text
I am new to Vim, however I am learning to love it. As a former/current Windows user, there is one shortcut that I depend on and would like to configure in Vim.
On windows I can use ctrl-arrow left ...
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Add line at the end of text
I have 5000 text files in a folder with different names.
I just need to add one more line to the end in all files.
Example:
HELLO HELLO
HELLO HELLO
I need make it
HELLO HELLO
HELLO HELLO
abc
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truncate sentence: delete up to, but not including period
How can I set up a keybinding to delete up to the end of a sentence that ends with a period, but keep the period?
The commands df., d), and D all truncate the sentence but don't keep the period. ...
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Is there a shortcut to reuse the last operator+motion without repeating the whole change?
Many times I find my self running ciw or c2W but with different text. Like ciwnewtext<esc> and then ciwanothertext<esc>. The dot command . will repeat the whole change (it does not allow ...
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Why is block selection characterwise?
Looking at the documentation I found this piece:
a} *v_a}* *a}* *a{*
a{ *v_aB* *v_a{* *aB*
aB "a Block", select [count] Blocks, from "[count]...
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Vim jump between words and stop at end of line
In normal mode, b and w are jumping between words,
and I would like to stop at the end of line.
For example:
The cursor is right over here
When I press w, what I expect is
Instead, the cursor ...
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How to select the content within brackets including brackets and without including brackets?
I have some code structure e.g
{
{
// Some content goes here
}
[
// Some content goes here
]
}
I want to select the content inside { } in some case and also content inside with ...
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Remap standard motions
I have a file formatted like this
+---------------------------------+
| Text text text |
| Text text text |
| Text text text |
+---------------------...
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How to jump to middle of buffer
By pressing gg and G you can jump to both ends of a buffer.
42G jumps to the line 42.
Is there any quick g shortcut to jump to the middle of buffer. Something like roughly round(number of lines/2)G ?...
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Delete until the right end of the current inner block
Let's say that I have a code like this (| represents the cursor position):
func1(x|, func2(), y);
I would like to get:
func1(x|);
Is there a way to delete the code from the position of the cursor ...
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Why does >3k move the cursor up when >3j does not move it down? [duplicate]
Hitting >3j indents the current line and the three below it, and >3k does the same but with the three lines above. However, when indenting down, my cursor is left on the same line as it started, ...
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Which text object defines text enclosed in space?
Since I need to operate on a sequence of symbols between spaces I'd like to know which text object defines it. Here is an example:
45908 Sep 24 21:31 [r].t3891993.tr some another text.
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How to operate on all of a word without its surrounding space?
In vim you can do daw to delete the entire word, but it also removes the space after the word, (caw too).
Is there a way to operate on the entire word without effecting the space around it?
For ...
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Is there a way to make the `r` operator accept a motion?
What I would like to do is issue a raiw where the current word would be replaced by an aaaaa word.
example:
this is a w[o]rd <--- cursor on []
raiw <--- command
this is a aaaa &...
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Why does vim use hjkl for cursor keys?
Why use the keys hjkl on the same line instead of keys in a triangle like wasd for moving on video games?
Why not something equivalent with right hand, like ijkl or pl;'?
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Fastest way to delete part of word from end of word?
Let's say I have the following text and my cursor is on the "d"
someCamelCaseWord
^
I want to delete "Word" so that the text reads "someCamelCase"
What's the fewest number of ...
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Make pipe behave like `col('.')`
So when I go to the first character in a line, the first character in that line is a tab character, and I execute echo col('.'), I will get 1.
However when I type 2| I won't go to the next character, ...
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Act on lines changed by previous command
Is there a way to target the set of lines changed in the previous command? Say I do a search and replace, bulk indent, or some other command that affects either a series or scattered collection of ...
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Jump cursor vertically over code blocks. Keep horizontal position
I'm thinking about a feature which I think would improve my workflow a lot. I don't know if it already exists..
The feature is about moving the cursor vertically over code blocks without losing its ...
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wrap breaks when using delete or change word type commands
Using these options
set wrap linebreak nolist
set showbreak=~ "adds specified character after wrap
set breakindent "forces word wrap to start at last lines indentation level
set display=lastline "...
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How to ignore a column when visually selecting a paragraph
I have a file that looks like this:
# Section 1
#
# new: a.txt
# new: b.txt
#
#
# Section 2
#
# [n]ew: c.txt
# new: d.txt
# new: e.txt
#
My cursor is on the first new of the second section and I ...
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Delete to ; if exists, otherwise to end of line
autocmd FileType cpp nnoremap <buffer> C ct;
autocmd FileType cpp nnoremap <buffer> D dt;
These two are quite useful, but sometimes there is no ; after the cursor and then D doesn't do ...
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Gotchas for changing spacebar to insert a space?
I find that one of my most common actions is to insert a space, therefore I am thinking about changing the spacebar to insert a space. Right now I rarely use the space bar in normal mode, which is ...
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Change or reverse order of arguments
A common task I run into is having to change the order of arguments. So, for example, I might have something like this:
stringInsert( "text to insert", buffer );
and need to change it into this:
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Is it possible to have vim show the list of available marks when using marks?
That is, when you hit the marks operator key ` or ' you get a list of the available marks - i.e. the list vim gives from the ex command :marks. Then, when you press a letter to jump to the mark, you ...
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How can you indent your current file without losing your cursor position?
I was reading that the way to indent in vim is a gg=G sequence. This however loses my cursor position.
How can I indent my file without losing my cursor position?
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Philosophical question: Is remapping keys to allow navigation in Insert Mode bad practice? In fact, why even have Normal Mode? [closed]
I decided to remap the arrow keys to C-h, C-j, etc. in my vimrc. Then I decided to allow half-page scrolling (which I use a lot) with C-u and C-d. But now I'm realizing that I rarely use hotkeys in ...
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Jumping to start/end of function definition in C++
Is there an easy way to jump to the beginning or end of the function your cursor is currently inside? It doesn't seem like sentence/paragraph/section have useful syntax aware meanings when editing C++....
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Motion remap to select function doesn't work with v
I want to add a motion:
:onoremap <silent> f( :<C-U>normal! f)vF(b<CR>
If I have this line, where the asterisk is my current position:
int a = fo*o(4, 5, 99);
I want to type vf( ...
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For column navigation, is there a nice to display column numbers the way we typically display line numbers?
When navigating within a line, I find myself navigating one character or word at a time, which I feel it one of my greatest inefficiencies. Navigating to a particular line is easy, because we have ...
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How can I use marks to jump to locations in files I have recently opened, but not changed?
Often times I edit a file - think my work is done - then close the file and move on to the next thing. But then I realise I need to go back to that code and tweak it a bit more.
If I open the file ...
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Why does "Operator" + "Motion" behave inconsistently?
This is something that has bugged me for a long time, but I've never gotten around to asking about. Say the text in your buffer looks like this:
Hello
World
If I put my cursor somewhere in line 2, ...
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Jump to next identifier in Vim help files
I regularly find myself in the situation that I am reading a help topic and see an identifier (the blue underlined words) that I want to follow with <C-]>. However, most of the time the ...
