Questions tagged [key-bindings]
Doing an action when pressing a key. These are also called key mappings or mappings. For questions about default key bindings, as well as creating or redefining key bindings.
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Find git root directory in key mapping
I would like to find the git root directory and use it as argument for :FZF in a key mapping like this:
nnoremap <Leader>eg :FZF `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`<CR>
Unfortunately, this ...
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Increase a number with behave mswin
Is there a way to increase the number under the coursor while still using behave mswin? Since behave mswin overwrites CTRL_A
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Enable github copilot in Neovim for shell command editing
I use bash and like to use the built-in command Ctrl xCtrl e to invoke an editor in the shell in order to edit the current line.
This creates a temporary file, named /tmp/bash-fc.[Some random ...
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Call original gf after remapping gf to custom function
gf doesn't work for absolute links used in Azure DevOps yaml files, p.e.
- template: /devops/template/my-template.yml
(It only works without the leading slash.)
This is why I have created my custom ...
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How to map `<LocalLeader>s` to send send the selected text to `SlimeRegionSend`?
For python development, I use slime with tmux and the following configuration
let g:slime_target = "tmux"
" configuration for vim in a split tmux window with a REPL in the other pane:
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How to execute a command in normal mode ignoring any mappings made to it?
For example, if I have the mapping nnoremap p ]p
and want to put text only once with the unmapped p behaviour, is there a key I can press before p to bypass those mappings? Something like a shell ...
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How can I open MDN link in coc.css popup?
Sorry for my English. I installed coc-nvim plugin in my vim (gvim in windows) after that I insert CocInstall coc-css command for css snippets.
In this picture I highlighted MDN Reference.
How can I ...
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How can I set a shortcut for open popup in coc.nvim in two steps?
Sorry for my English. I installed coc-nvim plugin in my vim (gvim in windows) after that I insert CocInstall coc-css command for css snippets and it works correctly. When I start writing in vim both ...
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How to map Vim command and CTRL-W R together?
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I am trying to map the F10 key with theterminal bash % command so I can execute the current open file with bash in a split pane setup (this functions works). The problem is when I try to add ...
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How to remap F16 to F19 on macOS?
So far I managed to remap F1 to F15, but I can't remap F16 to F19.
When I am in insert mode, nothing happens.
What is weird is that in the terminal, I can see something is intercepted, for example, if ...
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Why doesn't ctrl+left and ctrl+right work by default in alacritty?
As in the title.
I run vim in xterm and ctrl-left and ctrl-right does work (skips over one word in the text by default -- this is likely the intended behavior, also because it works the same way in ...
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Remap square bracket commands to fit a swiss layout keyboard
I'm new to vim and currently trying to understand the different commands. :help index shows me a list of all commands for each mode. Section 2.3 is about "Square bracket commands" like [* ...
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How to remove empty lines from visually selected block?
I am using following mapping. The command works fine but when I open a new file, all the empty lines are highlighted. Could you please check my mapping?
vnoremap <leader>n :g/^$/d<CR><...
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x (delete character under cursor) not working when creating a shortcut
Yeah... let me explain.
So I have this text that has hyphens on some words at the end of the line to join words, like this:
hello, my na-
me is bruh...
This is a scanned book with OCR, and on every ...
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How to use AG plugin to search a word inside a git repo?
I want to enable vim-ag to search a word inside specific directory.
Currently I have the following mapping in my vimrc:
noremap <leader>a :Ag! <C-r>=expand('<cword>')<CR><...
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How to implement a symbol keyboard layer in Vim?
I recently came across this question:
Mapping symbols and special characters to home row in insert mode, which introduced me to the idea of a symbol layer on the keyboard. This seems like a nice thing ...
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How to map both keymaps `<C-w>q` and `<C-w><C-q>` to do nothing?
As title. I usually mistyped <C-w> into <C-w><C-q> and it close the window I was working on. That is really annoying... I have tried mapping this keymap into <nop> but it didn'...
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How can I create mappings to execute specific Vim commands, depending on if a makefile exists?
In general, I have makefiles setup anytime I'm working on C projects. To save and compile these projects, I've bound the ' key to do this:
map ' :wa<CR>:!make<CR>
However, I sometimes ...
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<Tab> out of insert mode - lua keymap
I'm a relatively new neovim user. I use nvim-autopairs to always induce matching (, [, {, ', " character pairs, and automatically placing my cursor inside them. As an example, in insert mode, if ...
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How to grep only the contents of the current file?
I have this alias to grep under the cursor (for the entire project):
" bind K to grep word under cursor
nnoremap K :grep! "\b<C-R><C-W>\b"<CR>:cw<CR><ENTER>...
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Go to directory in link (instead of opening the file)
I have a text file with lots of links to local directories which cointains .pdf files.
I know about gf, but is there a way to open only the directory and not the file?
For example, from this link ~/...
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How to remap the esc key to "capslock" in linux?
Having to press the esc key every time that you want to enter normal mode is a pain.
I have seen multiple answers where people map combinations like jj. But why use that when you can map the capslock ...
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How to debug this problem with the :map command?
I was trying to view my key mappings because I can't seem to jump through parts of snippets in UltiSnips.
So I type :map and hit enter and it comes up with the start of the list, but there I can't ...
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ci" or ci' doesn't work in vim key bindings for zsh command line editing [closed]
I have vim keybindings enabled for command line editing by bindkey -v. When I am trying to use ci", ci', di" or di' it doesn't work.
For example: If I have a command echo "hello" '...
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Mapping <c-h> behaves like <c-s-h>
I am adding the basic config to mi vim
nnoremap <C-h> <C-W>h
nnoremap <C-j> <C-W>j
nnoremap <C-k> <C-W>k
nnoremap <C-l> <C-W>l
but I see the weird ...
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Jump to file containing mappings
My nmap returns the following two lines among other things:
n bh * <Lua 5: vim/_editor.lua:344>
n bl * <Lua 4: vim/_editor.lua:344>
I don't want those mappings because ...
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mapping > (and <) to function for special indent
I would like to map > (and <) in normal mode to a function such that it indents the line and keeps the cursor at the original position after performing the indent
Here my code in the file ...
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Is it possible to delete part of a wildcard autocmd?
If I put this
augroup AU_NAME
autocmd!
autocmd CursorMoved *.cpp,*.hs echo localtime()
augroup END
autocmd! AU_NAME CursorMoved *.cpp
in my vimrc, then open a file and enter :au AU_NAME, I see
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Why does the help suggest to end the lhs of a plug mapping with a semicolon?
In :help using-<Plug> a suggestion is given as to how to name the left hand side of a <Plug> mapping:
To make it very unlikely that other plugins use the same sequence of characters, use ...
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Why doesn't the dot command work after pasting in visual mode?
1. Why doesn't this work?
If my text file is:
aaa
test bbbb test
test bbbb test
test bbbb test
I can yank aaa, select bbbb in visual mode, and type "0p, to replace it with aaa, with the idea of ...
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Can I make a new mode in Nvim?
I want to create a new mode other than normal, visual, or insert because I want to:
change the functions of all keys at once
allow remapping
preserve the mappings of other modes and retrieve when go ...
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Why inoremapping <c-e> shadows <c-e> completion functionality?
Foreword
Open a new file with vim -Nu NONE and insert the following text (| is to indicate the position of the cursor, in insert mode)
longline
lo|
longerline
Now hit Ctrl-XCtrl-N and the ...
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Remove words from comments in vim autocompletion
I have looked for similar questions but I was quite surprised to not find anything similar... either I am the first person on this planet to have this issue, or I have searched using bad keywords.
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My key mapping appears when I run :map, but when I try to trigger it I get "E492: Not an editor command"
I am learning vim.
I am at a part that I am very excited about because I think it will lead to a lot of productivity gains: key mapping.
I added the following mapping to my .vimrc:
let mapleader = &...
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How do I disable access keys in gVim
I'm looking for a way to disable the access keys in gVim.
For example, when I press alt+f, the "File" menu pops up.
This is behavior that I want to remove, so I can use these keybinds for ...
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How to make a keymap for a series of action atomic (which can be undo by just press one time 'u')?
Here is my keymap:
nmap <A-y> viW<Plug>VSurround]%a()<ESC>h"+pF(<CR>l
vmap <A-y> <Plug>VSurround]%a()<ESC>h"+pF(<CR>l
Which is a markdown ...
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Double Shift event to map some events
I'd like to migrate some of the my favourite features of Intellij into Vim - double shift to search everywhere and integrate it with FZF. But I have doubts whether it is possible in vim/nvim or any ...
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NeoVim runs part of mapping while starting
I am using a Raspberry Pi for learning C. I use NeoVim and Mingw-GCC on the Pi over SSH.
Building is done with a custom script named build. Initial builds were done by calling ./build from the command ...
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Map key code to specific forward search query
I'm trying to remap <leader>t to search for a specific string [ ] to save time running /\[ \] every time I search for it.
Things I've tried :nnoremap <leader>t /\[ \]<CR> but it ...
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What other than mappings and abbreviations can change the text I'm typing?
The question
When editing TeX files (to do so, I use vimtex) if I've discovered that if I write lll in insert mode, I get \ell.
How do I find why this is happening?
My research
I thought "ok, I'...
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vnoremap to sort highlighted lines by length not working as expected
I found a command that would sort highlighted lines by their length and wanted to make a mapping for it so that I could avoid typing it every time.
vnoremap ,s :<C-U>'<,'> ! awk '{ print ...
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Short delay in buffer swtich with `nnoremap` binding
I have
nnoremap <C-]> :bn<Enter>
nnoremap <C-[> :bp<Enter>
so that I can use Ctrl + [ and ] to flip between buffers. I'm experiencing an issue where these two shortcuts behave ...
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Behavior of feedkeys() with "x" in {mode}
This is what it says in the help:
'x' Execute commands until typeahead is empty. This is
similar to using ":normal!". You can call feedkeys()
several times without 'x' and then one ...
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How can I repeat a command a hexadecimal number of times?
The file I'm working on contains a hexdump. I pulled it directly out of memory, so it starts from an arbitrary offset, like this:
0x1234: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1244: 00 00 ...
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<Ctrl-Left> in insert and normal mode deletes lines yet no such mapping in .vimrc
On my machine, mapping Ctrl← ends up deleting lines in both insert as well as normal mode. I tried to find where exactly these mappings were being sourced from:
I tried: :verbose map <C-Left>, :...
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Change " to `` or '' depending on whether it's typed after a space or non-space
The usecase is LaTeX, which I write using VimTeX.
To make double quoted words one would write ``words''.
However, I'm much more used, from many other contexts (both prose and code), to type " for ...
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Vim mapping: Copy whole line X lines up/down and paste it X lines down/up
I find myself doing the following very often: xkyyxjp (where x is a number).
I copy a whole line x lines up, and then I paste it x lines down (and vice versa); and so I wanted to make a map so I can ...
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understanding and modifying an include-search map command
I found a useful map at the include-search ([I) help.
map <leader>1 [I:let nr = input("Which one: ")<Bar>exe "normal " . nr ."[\t"<CR>
This opens the ...
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ci) - also delete the surrounding parens?
I use ci) and ci] quite a lot to change what happens in between the parens or brackets.
Is there a way to remove everything including the parens or brackets?
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Some Normal mode mappings not working in vim9 anymore
I have the following in my configuration:
nnoremap µ iii
nnoremap ° ioo
I'm using gvim, on Windows 10, using an azerty keyboard (so µ is <S-*> and ° is <S-)).
The mappings work in vim8, but ...
