Questions tagged [cursor-movement]
Moving the cursor another place in the buffer.
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How to search & replace the word under cursor without changing position?
This question is related to Do a forward slash search but don't have vim immediately jump to the string? but is not a dup.
I recently updated my Linux box (clicked on the "install updates" button ...
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Cursor Movement in y8k vs y8j [duplicate]
Why does y8j not move the cursor but y8k does move it up?
What .vimrc entry would prevent yanking upwards moving the cursor?
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Jump to a specific line without moving the cursor horizontally
Consider you are editing the left table in Vim. Your cursor (■) is at Line 14, Column 12.
Where you are now Move the cursor
11 +-------+-----+ 11 +-------+-----+
12 | Name | Age | ...
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cursor position jumps to first non-blank character of line unpredictably [closed]
I'm using SpaceVim with Neovim, and often times I'd experience this cursor jumping issue (as if ^ has been pressed in normal mode) while using it. I doubt the bug is on the Neovim end, otherwise a lot ...
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How can I prevent Vim from centering the line under the cursor on `:edit`
Each time I want to save my work while editing a text file, I enter :write to save the file, and :edit to reload the file, with the side effect of resetting the undo/redo buffer.
However, an unwanted ...
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Vim command 0 goes to second column instead of first one
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 ...
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Can I use feedkeys() inside of a keyloop implemented by getchar()
I implemented a fuzzy filter, which
accept a list argument,
open a window with a scratch buffer whose content set to the list, then
waiting for use input and do filtering.
Here is why I ask this ...
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Move cursor and screen together
I am implementing a smooth scrolling function for <C-u> and <C-d>, which just sleeps for a few milliseconds and then moves the screen up (<C-y>) or down (<C-e>) one line:
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Moving to the end of the last word on a line
There are commands to distinguish between the beginning of a line (0) and the beginning of the first word of the line (^), basically ignoring leading whitespace. But I can only find one way to move ...
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Jump to nearest pair of brackets with %
I'm looking for a way to change the behaviour of the % key. I know by default it will move the cursor to the corresponding parenthesis or brace, but I'm wondering if I can have it jump to the nearest ...
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Best way to move cursor to start of variable declaration?
There are a lot of times were I have something like int x = someFunction(a, b, c); If my cursor is somewhere after the equals sign, is there a good way to put the cursor on the “s” in someFunction?
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Register CursorMoved on certain key press and disable when move to new line
I'm trying to write a function that will highlight searches performed with the f and F keys.
I currently have a solution here thanks to @filbranden, but would like to further improve it to only ...
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Jump *to* end of paragraph?
I often find I want to quickly select all the characters in an aligned column, something like this:
this.p = obj.['propery'];
this.prop = obj.['proper'];
this.proper = obj.['...
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How to go halfway into a line? Percentage navigation within a line
I know that e.g. 50% is a normal mode command to go halfway down a file, but [count]% is line-wise.
How can I get to the halfway point of the line that my cursor is on?
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How to treat underscores as whitespace when skipping to the next word? [duplicate]
Let's consider an example where the cursor is at the beginning of the text one_two three.
Underscores are treated as part of the word, so w moves right to the first letter of three.
With set ...
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How to move a cursor to the last line with auto indent?
Assume autoindent is set, and you have the buffer below. Note the cursor is represented as I.
for i in range(1, 6):
print(i)I
When you hit Enter key, you get this.
for i in range(1, 6):
...
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Why does `:m+1` not move two lines down when `:m-2` moves one line up?
In the help for move:
:[range]m[ove] {address} *:m* *:mo* *:move* *E134*
Move the lines given by [range] to below the line
given ...
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How to make comma and semi-colon direction-insensitive of the latest f,F,t,T command
I can customize the n and N keys to always search backward and forward respectively irrespective of what the last search direction was with the following commands:
nnoremap <expr> n (v:...
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How to replace a word with spaces
Suppose I have the following text:
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system
What I want to do is delete the word "test" and replace it with four spaces:
This is a of the emergency ...
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WORD movement across lines
Consider the following text snippet:
value1,
value2
Now, if the cursor is at (1,1) (the 'v' of value1), W takes me to (2,5) (the 'v' of value2) which is as expected. But if I do dW at the same ...
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How to get PageUp and PageDown to return to the exact same character?
Because the default Ctrl-B/F or PageUp/Down behaviour usually leaves the cursor somewhere other than where it started, I remapped PageUp and PageDown in my .vimrc to simply move up/down 25 lines.
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How to scroll two vertical splits at the same time?
I am not sure if it is even possible but, when I am working with vertical splits, sometimes, I want both of them to scroll up/down at the same time rather than using this combination:
scroll down ...
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how to move to the end of a string / beginning of string for a macro
i want to write a makro and need to know how i can move to the end and to the beginning of a string, respektively i want to visually select the link so that i can surround it with brackets.
my line ...
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Keep relative cursor position after indenting with >>
Can I setup >> to keep the relative cursor position?
For example, assuming the line is
def fun(<cursor>):
can I make >> result in
def fun(<cursor>):
?
Obviously, with ...
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How to get w word and b back to treat hyphens and underscores like spaces?
I currently have this in my vimrc
set iskeyword+=-
But when I press w or b my cursor skips over hyphens. Am I misunderstanding iskeyword?
How do I get word and back commands to treat hyphens (and ...
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]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 ...
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I want to improve my cursor movement [closed]
The thing that slows me down the most when using VIM is getting my cursor to where I want it to be.
How should I practise improving this? Are there tools that teach you movement tricks and force you ...
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Is there any `setvirtcol()`?
I'm looking for a way to precisely set the cursor position given a virtual column.
Is there only :exe "normal! ".vcol."|"?
NB: I need virtual columns as they're the only thing that I'm able to ...
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How to jump to a character offset in a buffer?
Vim has the command :goto to go to a byte offset in a buffer.
Is there an equivalent for a character offset? If not, is there a better way to implement it than repeatedly testing the cursor's ...
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What is the difference between ^ and _ for cursor movement
They both seem to move the cursor to the first non-blank character of the current line and I wonder what was the reason for duplicating this functionality
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How to show cursor in the middle of the window despite being at the end of the file?
I am editing at the bottom of a file, but I want the line I'm editing to appear in the middle of the screen. Is this possible without adding a bunch of spurious newlines at the end of the file?
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In visual mode, how can I select to either the next section or the end of the file?
I'm having trouble selecting sections in a file in a visual mode macro to separately perform some action on each section. Here's an example file:
[insert introduction here] ...
....
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section .....
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cmake movement plugin
I'm wondering, if there's a way to move with % in CMakeLists.txt files between foreach and endforeach, if and endif, function and endfunction, …
googeling I only found plugins that allow calling ...
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why ctrl-h and ctrl-l behaves differently in normal mode?
In normal mode, I tried CTRL-H and CTRL-L, and I found that the former worked while the latter didn't do anything at all.
I wonder why their behaviors are not the same?
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Why is Vim pasting after the cursor?
I don't understand why is Vim pasting after the cursor; for example in this example (where the cursor is at the start):
|The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog
^
I would like to exchange fox and ...
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Moving to an outer block
Does anybody know the command for moving to an outer block of brackets/parentheses?
Lets say that my cursor is in the innermost bracket. I know that % moves to a matching bracket, but is there a ...
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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 ...
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Template plugin(?) to jump to next occurance of '<++>'
I just noticed that my current box with vim is missing a crucial feature, but I am unable to bring it back.
A long time ago I had a vim setup where I could press Ctrl+J (IIRC) and then my cursor ...
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How to remove a line and paste it at the beginning of a range
How to remove a line and paste it at the beginning of a range?
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
xxxxxxxx
For example, here I want to remove the 5th line and paste it before the first two lines, to change ...
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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} ...
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`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 ...
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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
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Why is using arrow keys in normal mode considered bad practice?
I have read it in many articles (e.g.) that it's a bad practice to use arrow keys in normal mode. Could somebody explain why is it considered a wrong practice, if at all?
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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:
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How to enable disabled movement keys in netrw?
Recently I started using and learning Vim. I turned off movement keys in my .vimrc file like this:
noremap <Up> <NOP>
noremap <Down> <NOP>
noremap <Left> <NOP>
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How do I make Vim preserve column position when moving between lines?
I'm using one of Vim distribution called SpaceVim and everything is good enough except some details. How do I make spacevim to preserve column position when moving between lines? For instance - move ...
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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} ...
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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} ...
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How to go to end/get out of the parenthesis of a line in vim?
I read the solution answered in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11037825/vim-get-out-of-parenthesis-brackets-etc. That is nothing but command A that takes away you in the end of line.
But, my ...
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Make ctrl-j and ctrl-k work like they do in less?
I would like to use ctrl-k and ctrl-j to not only move the cursor up or down (by lines), but also to scroll the portion of the document that is visible. Effectively, leave the cursor where it is and ...
