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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Vim mapping to auto-indent when entering inside braces, brackets etc
Which vim mapping/ plugin will help me in auto-indenting when entering inside braces, brackets or any similar characters. For example:
Input {press enter}
Output
{
cursor here
}
I want ...
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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 can I make a single mapping take effect for both Normal mode, Insert mode, and Visual mode?
I want to disable the arrow keys in Normal mode, Insert mode, and Visual mode.
To achive this, I've created 12 mappings (see below) - 4 mappings for each mode.
Is there a way to achieve the same using ...
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Why does Vim interpret â as Alt-b in a mapping?
I have the following code in my vimrc:
function! s:WordPos(dir) abort
return a:dir ==# 'right'
\ ? searchpos('\<', 'nz', line('.'))[1]
\ : searchpos('\<', 'bn', line('.'))[1]
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Re-mapping Swedish letters
On a Swedish keyboard to the right of the keyboard one has:
O, P, Å
L, Ö, Ä
[ and ] are extensively used by Vim, and hard to reach on my keyboard, so therefore I've mapped these to Ö and Ä in my ....
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Automatically reindent lines filtered through formatprg
I have following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<graph id="G" edgedefault="undirected">
<edge id="e6" source="n5" target="n4"> <data key="d1">1.1</...
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How to use <Leader> in a normal command today?
The answer to the question with the same title doesn't seem to work for me. Not sure if the behavior has just changed overtime.
To reproduce the issue, open Vim via vim -Nu filebelow.vim, where the ...
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How to load method definition in a popup?
This is a followup to this question, where I would like to load the method definition in a pop-up rather than a split screen (or the whole screen for that matter).
Attempt 1: using nui.vim
I’m using ...
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vim split horizontal resize shortcut
I can resize horizontal split windows by ctrl-w-shift-< and ctrl-w-shift->. I would like to have a shortcut for that.
Close to the topic, recently I learned about the following maps:
nnoremap &...
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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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Autocmd and key mapping with a conditional expression
I am currently running the following configuration for latex: NVim 0.9, Vmitex and Evince.
I have been trying to map a key to open <current-file>.log, while the current-file is a name taken ...
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Shortcut to open definition of variable in a vertical split with Neovim mapping
This is a follow up question to this post where I would jump to the definition of a variable in a vertical split for ctags. I’m currently using an lsp language server like so:
local bufopts = { ...
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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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search a pattern preceding cursor position, modify it and insert the modified string
I am writing a mapping to autocomplete tags
Pattern: <.*?>, matches complete HTML tags only.
The goal is to lookbehind and see if there exists a text like <html>.
Mapping: inoremap <...
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How to delete a WORD in insert mode?
I know that I can press Ctrl-W to delete a word in insert mode, but how would I delete a WORD?
For example, with this text
foo.bar.baz
^ (cursor position)
the command should delete all the ...
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What's the best way to swap words?
I'm familiar with ddp to swap lines, but what if I want to swap words on the same line? I found a Reddit post that linked to this wiki page that suggests dawbP as a word swap method, but this seems ...
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Strangely slow key bindings
I defined these maps, to yank into system clipboard.
noremap <leader>y "*y
noremap <leader>Y "*Y
noremap <leader>yy "*yy
But when I use the first one (<leader>y), I find it ...
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How can I detect which way vim is going into visual mode (from up to down or from down to up)?
This is related to better copy-paste multiple lines in visual mode where vim pastes after that visual chunk of code.
I need to be able to detect which way vim is going into visual mode so that I can ...
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Can I map a netrw command and its arguments to a key?
I have this map:
nmap <buffer> <F3> mX
So one I press <F3> it opens a prompt so I can type a command. Can I give the command also in the map above? something like:
nmap <buffer&...
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How to make a toggle function in .vimrc that toggles multiple configs of almost same type?
My .vimrc code
autocmd FileType cpp nnoremap <F4> :RunWithFile
autocmd FileType cpp nnoremap <F4> :RunWithFile ~/Downloads/ > output.txt && cat output.txt<s-left><s-...
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How do I evenly distribute GVim windows started from a key-binding? [closed]
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% http://vi.stackexchange.com/a/7627/2923
if has("win32") || has("win64")
:vnoremap <Leader>gf :<C-U>'<,'>g/^/silent! exec "!START /B gnvim " . shellescape('<cfile>') &...
