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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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 ...
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cpoptions and parenthesis text objects
Haskell has a literal syntax for anonymous functions of
\pattern0 pattern1 [...] patternN -> expression
which interacts oddly with vim's parenthesis text objects when pattern0 starts with a (.
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Why does replace not accept a motion?
A lot of operator like delete, change, indent, switch-case accept a motion to apply on.
For example, let say I want to replace the current word with all letter a, I do:
viwra
Compared to the ...
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Motion to jump back one level of indentation, not including blank lines
I've been authoring a lot of F# in Vim lately. Like Python it is pretty strictly indentation-based. However, unlike Python mode for Vim, it does not appear that the standard F# Vim plugin supports any ...
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Compute the distance between two marks
I came across a question, while writing some vimscript. I wanted to know the "distance in motion" between two marks in the buffer.
The interesting point of this can be to know how many time I have to ...
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What does vim consider a paragragh?
Suppose I have the following piece of code through which I would like to navigate
===>Cursor is here and when I press {
SomeTest
{
line1
line2
line3
line4
...
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Why doesn't n jump to the last character matched with f?
I have a vim script that does the following:
normal 3f,
normal lvnh"+y
But if I search for anything other than /,/ before hand, the n in normal lvnh"+y matches whatever I searched for last instead ...
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Change/delete matching brackets at the same time
Sometimes I write something in brackets and then realize I've typed the wrong kind. For instance, in LaTeX:
\command(arguments)
Which should be:
\command{arguments}
I can jump between the two ...
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End of python block motion
I need a motion that moves to end/beginning of a python block, and I need another motion that moves to begining/end of previous/next method/class (all combinations).
I've tried vim-indent-object, ...
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Deleting to the begin of the line with d _
In Vim, v_ selects text from the current position to the actual begin of the line. Example:
Test test
Test te|st
Now pressing v_ we get the selection:
Test test
[Test te]st
From this I would ...
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How can I change/delete comments easily?
For commenting and uncommenting I now use the vim-commentary plugin, also the NERD commenter can be used as mentioned in:
How to comment out a set of lines which are selected in visual mode?
I would ...
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How do I get matchit to work with '/>' (self-closed tags)?
I really like to jump from one <el> to the end of </el> with matchit. I am using it for jsx, but it does not seem to work if I have an element that is declared with />, does anybody ...
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What are the rules for “w” word motion when characters are not in iskeyword?
If I have a shell script with code like
...
chars+=('5')
chars+=('6')
...
chars+=('%')
chars+=('&')
...
and iskeyword is defined as
iskeyword=@,48-57,_,192-255,-
This definition indicates to ...
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How can I print out the iskeyword characters?
When I use :set iskeyword? to view keyword characters, result for shell scripts is:
iskeyword=@,48-57,_,192-255,-
:h iskeyword says @ expands to any alpha character that the isalpha() functions ...
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Goto First line of page
I know to go to the last line of the page i use L.
How do I get to the first line of the page ?
or what is the opposite of L
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Change the cursor shape in operator pending mode
My cursor in Gvim:
My cursor in Gvim after pressing d:
Is there any way I can change the cursor in terminal Vim when in operator pending mode? It doesn't have to look exactly like the screenshots.
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How can I make f motions wrap across lines?
I don't actually want f itself to wrap across lines, but I would like to know how I can create a single key mapping which will jump to the next instance of the letter which follows it.
The mapping ...
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How to find the next SpellLocal
I am curious to know how I can find the next instance of a SpellLocal mistake (either by a motion key or via a search command) in vim.
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textobj-user: must the patterns be different?
I'm trying to make a text-object that is a paragraph surrounded by lines containing %. To test something simpler, I tried:
call textobj#user#plugin('pc', {
\ 'code': {
\ 'pattern': ['%<', '%'...
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How can I specify the movement direction for text objects?
How can I specify a direction (for going backwards) for commands working on text objects like 2caw? E.g. I like to make 2caw replace bbb ccc in aaa bbb ccc ddd while on c.
