Questions tagged [cursor-movement]
Moving the cursor another place in the buffer.
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gvim can be really slow to display the last typed character in VirtualBox. How do I fix that issue?
While working in an Ubuntu VirtualBox (host is also Ubuntu), gvim is being really slow at showing the last character I just typed, or, when I move the cursor up/down/left/right, it also takes 1 to 2 ...
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How to toggle the cursor position between the beginning and the end of the line?
In normal mode, I'd like to press a key that behaves like ^ (move the cursor to the first non-blank character of the current line), unless the cursor is already there, in which case it should behave ...
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NERDTree window change during tab switch
Currently, when using NERDTree, I hit Ctrl-ww to navigate to my NERDTree window from my editing window. Then, I navigate to a file I want to open, and hit t to open it in a new tab. Now, when I want ...
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Popup to show number of matches of a given string while in insert mode, and while completion popup is being shown
This is a follow up to a previous question.
Thanks to that, I could come up with this augroup:
augroup Foo
autocmd!
autocmd TextChangedI,TextChangedP * call <SID>foo()
fun s:foo()
let ...
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How can I get the number of matches of pattern without altering the search buffer nor moving the cursor?
My end goal is to be able to highlight all the matches of the word being typed and echo their number, but this question is about one specific aspect of this, which I've been having trouble with, ...
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Cursor position 'o' and 'O' insert command with count number
The default behaviour of the o and O when prepended with a count is to keep the cursor always at the bottom.
I'm wondering if there's a native way to get the cursor at the top.
The way I'm doing this ...
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How to return to previous position in a line? How to CTRL-O in a line?
After pressing 0 in a line, how can I now jump back to where I just was?
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Why did vi use hjkl instead of jikl?
I found this convincing history on StackOverlow:
Vim uses hjkl because vi did.
Vi used hjkl because its creator's keyboard didn't have physical cursor keys. Instead, the arrows were printed on the ...
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How to select the next text object?
How can I move to the next text object?
E.g. with cursor on the first , in
{}, {}, {}
^
then calling va} selects the middle {}. This is the behaviour I want to be able to achieve consistently, even ...
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Navigate between (form feed) sections
Background:
Vim :help states that a section begins after a form-feed (^L) in the first column [*].
In normal mode ]] or [[ can be used to navigate to the next or previous section (respectively).
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Vim substitution and keep cursor in place
I have a mapping in my .vimrc.
It is the following:
nnoremap q; :call Add_comment_css()<CR>
And then I can run, say 10q;
And then it will run 10 times.
But my problem is that the cursor always ...
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Vim: what are the fastest ways to get to the middle of some line close to where your cursor is located?
Let's say you have this text:
sed -n '1,4p'
Commas are used in every sed expression to target a range.
It's part of some notes i have...
The cursor is right behind the to, but I want to get the ...
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in normal mode, How to place the cursor at the end of the line just like how insert mode behaves?
Is there a way to set the cursor in normal mode to the end of the line?
for example, |abcdefg to abcdefg| not abcdef|g
Cursor moves one character backwards on exiting insert mode
https://stackoverflow....
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How to handle the unstable move result about 'e' and 'b'?
We know that the command w, e, b handle the movement about word.
But I think the w is stable, since whenever you type w, the cursor always jump to the next word. But e and b not that stable, if the ...
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How can I restore the behavior where h and l stopped at the beginning and end of the line?
After quite some time of using Vim I wanted to switch to NeoVim and set it up with more IDE-like features.
So I googled and took the first thing I found (LunarVim/nvim-basic-ide/), thinking I could ...
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How to "Set previous context mark"?
From the vim manual:
m' or m` Set the previous context mark. This can be jumped to
with the "''" or "``" command (does not move the
cursor, this is ...
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How to go to last change not made on the current screen?
I love g;, but often I find myself repeatedly doing g; until the screen changes. The reason for this is that I am often editing in two different places in the file. If I think ahead, I should set ...
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How to move to the beginning of visual line or to move to the last non-whitespace character of visual line?
What are the commands to move to the very beginning and to move the last non-whitespace character of the current visual line?
Do they exist at all?
Commands for normal lines
Commands for visual lines
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Is the older behaviour (easier to break out of search term entry) of / searches still available?
I remember older vim installations (in 2.4.x/2.6.x era linux distributions) behaving differently with / searches, often you were able to almost instantly follow the search up with an edit or movement ...
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} Jumps { between paragraphs - why they work so strange?
Paragraph 1.
Paragraph 2.
Paragraph 3.
Paragraph 4.
Here is how } and { currently work for me:
Put the cursor on the P of the 2nd paragraph.
Press }. The cursor will jump to the position between ...
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Remap a key only when in final line of a file
I want to remap a key, but I want the mapping to be active only when I'm in the last line of my file. Is there a simple way to do this? I would also like to do a similar thing when I'm in the first ...
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can I map multiple presses of <any key>?
I want to make more use of fF to navigate, but find the f to be clumsy. Eg. jump to "a" is fa.
Instead, I'd like aaa to map to fa, bbbto map to fb etc.
Is there an easy way to do this other ...
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How do I move the cursor feely past the EOLs?
I vaguely remember I've read about this option and also tried it out, but I can't remember the name...
It allows using l to move past the EOL, even though $ still brings you to the EOL, not to the ...
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How to have w,e,b-based motions handle underscores without using iskeyword?
Using Neovim 0.6.1.
I use a lot of snake_case_variable_names and have a frequent need to navigate within their individual components instead of treating these names as a single word.
Right now, the ...
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How to remember and recall cursor position?
Imaging I'm editing some code, and I found a few words that I would like to paste at the current cursor position elsewhere in the file. I will go to them, yank them, but then how do I return back to ...
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A multiple movement of the cursor
For example the code below,
1: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
2: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
3: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The arrow key moves the cursor from one character to the left, ...
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Ctrl+Arrows work differently in normal mode and in insert mode
For some reason, in my VIM there is a difference in behaviour of Ctrl+Arrow keys in normal mode and in insert mode. To demonstrate this, I edit the file which contents are:
aaa.aaa,aaa/aaa!aaa@aaa#aaa$...
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Unexpected behavior in edited vimrc: dropped out of insert mode when hitting empty line
sorry for the bad title. I could not think of how to better summarise the problem. I should also state, that I am fairly new to vim, so please be a bit considerate :).
I made the following changes in ...
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Next paragraph - don't skip lines with white spaces
When using { and } to skip to the next paragraph, the behavior is unpredictable since I can't see white spaces. I have tried to show line endings to see which lines have spaces, but I don't like the ...
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Why is % part of a word?
I have come across this behaviour and the documentation does not make sense to me.
Consider this sentence:
I am 100% sure there is something I am missing.
This is the next line.
Pressing w takes me ...
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How to speed up cursor movement?
When I hold the key k to move cursor up, is it possible to speed up the cursor movement?
I know that I can combine number with command (like: 20k) to move up many lines, but sometime I just prefer to ...
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Go to end of last pasted region
Sometimes `] works, but not after inserting some new text somewhere.
How can I jump to the end (and/or start) of the last region of text I pasted with some variant of p?
`] does not work here:
vim --...
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How to move cursor up to nearest upward smaller level of indentation
Imagine my cursor is where the ^ is in this document:
{
"first": [
{
"second": {
"third": [
"fourth"
]
}
},
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How to get H and L commands to work properly in command mode
In vim's command mode, when I type 'H' the cursor usually doesn't go all the way to the top of the window, and 'L' doesn't go all the way to the bottom.
To investigate the problem, I created a 60-line ...
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How do I undo a fold?
I noticed that when I fold some text with zf and then press u for undo it does not undo the fold but undoes the last text editing action. Is there a general-purpose undo command which also would undo ...
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Is there a built-in method to jump to the next character after a tab character?
I am editing tab-delimited data in a plaintext file (that was originally a spreadsheet) and I'd like to quickly jump forward to the next entry, the character after the next "tab" character.
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How to go to the nth-to-last character in insert mode?
Capital A in Vim takes me to the last character in insert mode, but can I go to the nth-to-last character in insert mode (or append mode) in vim?
Example:
this is some t|ext
how to go specifically to ...
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How to move `n` number char <left> in vim command line?
My init.vim code
autocmd FileType cpp nnoremap <F4> :RunWithFile ~/Downloads/ > output.txt && cat output.txt
I want my cursor position to be exact 31 times <left> in command ...
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Is there a plugin for (neo)vim that allows to jump to a possition by label, similar to things like vimium do?
With some browser plugins like vimium, one can press a key and all links on the open webpage get labeled with a short combination of letters. If you then type that combination, the corresponding link ...
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Restoring cursor to position before delete after Undo
This question is asked multiple places but none have an answer that works for me. I've tried:
'' `` g; g, ; , Ctrl+o
In a file add:
123456789
Move your cursor over 7 in normal mode, type d4h, press u....
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How do I delete until (and including) the 2nd occurrence of some character?
Here's an example:
console.log("basename of"path.basename(__filename))
console.log(path.dirname(__filename))
With my cursor on path in the first line, I've tried:
dt2)
but then my cursor ...
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Jump to last change that was farther than X lines away
I'm looking for a command similar to g;, but that ignores changes that are close to the cursor (say, less than 5 lines away).
When I'm editing some function in the middle of a file, I sometimes need ...
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How do I move to the next/previous number [duplicate]
How do I move the cursor to the next/previous number?
Ctrl-x and Ctrl-a can't be used since I have :set nrformats+=alpha.
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Moving by word (w/b) and staying within the line
Background
I'm attempting to remap the arrow keys to move by word while staying within the current line. I.e. I'm looking for a behavior similar to w and b, but that acts like h and l in the sense ...
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How can I center the cursor vertically after jumping to a line?
I often use :line to jump to a line number. How can I automatically center that line vertically after jumping? Essentially the same as running :150zz.
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vimscript to skip a block of text with lines containing similar words
I need a little help with some vimscript-ing.
I have a huge log file with multiple blocks of text resembling the following:
[log file start]
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Information: Setting NDR rule shield_rule on net a
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What is the fastest way to move cursor to the end of a line by line number?
I recently found out that you can move the cursor the beginning of a line quickly by line number like this:
:11
Regardless of your cursor position, this will move the cursor the beginning of line 11.
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Possible to increase cursor move speed when holding down (h/j/k/l)?
Is it possible to increase cursor move speed when holding down (h/j/k/l) ? If so, how?
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cursor position past EOL
Given the following setup
edit
a long line
short
move the cursor to line 1, column 9 (> 6 anyway)
move down and up again
I see that when moving to the short line, the column becomes at most 6 (...
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Why does "cw" from middle of current word not move to beginning of next word like "w" or "dw"? [duplicate]
Example scenario
I have this text consisting of two columns with different words of different lengths and alignments:
asdf foo
bar qwer
zzzzz xx
Let's say I want to abbreviate the first ...
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