Questions tagged [navigation]
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Skip to next batch of search results (or find next non-match)?
So you search /needle, and end up trapped in a haystack of result lines. Is there a quick way to skip to the first non-matching line (and then the next batch of results)?
E.g. I'm viewing the results ...
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How to move to Markdown ATX-style headers?
How can I move (navigate) between Markdown ATX-style headers?
The Vim plugin https://github.com/gbgar/pandoc-sections.vim does so using the [ and ] keys, but only when there is no space between the ...
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ctags vs GNU id-tools?
I stumbled upon mkid tools in tips.txt and tried it out (on C code). In terms of navigating to definitions, I thought it was identical to using ctags except for the fact that the ID file (generated by ...
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How to make Vim not be a line editor
Vim is famously (or infamously) a child of line-based editing. For many cases this is acceptable. But I wish to use it primarily as an academic tool with large amounts of text. I want the experience ...
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Navigation in insert mode with soft wrap and showbreak
I’m having trouble with hjkl movement in insert mode.
The issue is that I have changed hjkl movement to move by display line. I have 'wrap' on. The cursor should normally move line by line, not move ...
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Moving up and down wrapped lines [duplicate]
I have a text line (let's call it LINE) wrapped into some fifteen lines on the terminal screen (let's call these lines). Using only the keyboard I need to move up and down lines to edit. Keys j, k, up-...
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Is there an equivalent to Xcode's quick jump bar (to navigate Swift MARK annotations within a file)?
Does a rough equivalent to this Xcode quick jump bar feature exist as a Vim plugin? I haven't been able to find any good leads on one in my research.
It's a way to navigate sections in a file - in the ...
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Code tour plugin
I was wondering if you know any helpful vim or neovim package/ way to show and explain your codebase to new people.
The best way I managed to find up until now is https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/...
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Trying to move away from arrow keys in normal/insert/visual mode, but small text inserts are killing me!
I've disabled my arrow keys, and am finally getting used to hjkl (for the longest time I'd always hit j and k the wrong way around - just seemed more natural for some reason).
In normal mode I'm fine ...
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Quickly go to the end of “syntax highlighted” element
I am using syntax highlighting to help with writing LaTeX documents in vim. My documents involve a lot of brackets, and it is easy to do a trivial mistake and end-up with something which doesn't ...
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Why isn't this implemented by default in vim? (line by line Scroll) [closed]
Very often, my preferred way of navigating a file in vim is by "scrolling" line by line. By scrolling, I mean shifting the lines up/down while keeping the cursor on the same line and ...
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Restore “search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP” when search navigation wraps aound end of file
I've recently switched to Neovim, and some days in, I realized that there was no search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP message when jumping from the last to the first search result (or vice versa), ...
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Fastest way to navigate various points in vim
Is it possible for vim navigation to be as quick as a normal point-and-click navigation? For example, I've taken the following example here where I've created four points that need to be clicked:
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How do I navigate using tags in a personal copy of the vim documentation?
As background: I am a beginner in VIM and I want to go through the built-in vim manual, but with my own copy (not the system copy) so that I can practice in the manual text as I go along (I also ...
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Navigating wrapped paragraph as multiple lines [duplicate]
Vim wraps text around as most other text editors, but does not allow the same kind of navigation within wrapped lines. Take for instance a piece of text composed of several long paragraphs. If the ...
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Is there a backward equivalent to w?
You can go forward, to the beginning of next word, with w/W.
You can go forward, to the end of the word, with e/E
You can go backward, to the beginning of the word whit b/B
How do you go backward, to ...
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Smart jump to definition
I have ctags installed on my Windows machine.
I have the following mappings in my vimrc file
set tags=./tags;/
nnoremap <F5> :!ctags -R .<CR>
nnoremap ,dd :exec("tag ".expand("<cword&...
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Why are split and tab navigations distinct?
Known: <Ctrl>w then any of hjkl.
Known: :tab_<CR> where _ is either rlpn.
Why is there not a <Ctrl> navigation for tabs nor a : for splits? Why do the navigation commands differ ...
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How to navigate long lines like separate lines?
When I have a very long line in vim it will be shown on the screen as multiple lines, like this:
line no. | content |
100 | this is a very ...
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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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Is there a simple way to navigate a generated file that includes # line preprocessor directives?
I'm working on a code generator tool. I'm planing to use # LINE "filename" directives like the ones generated by the C preprocessor to show the relationship between the generated code and the original ...
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Move cursor to old position after scrolling
I often want to edit text in say line 200 of a file, but while doing this I need to look at say line 100, so I scroll to line 100. Is there a way to quickly jump back to line 200 after scrolling? Is ...
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Easier way to create alternate-file?
I use switching between alternate-files in VIM a lot in my development workflow and it works great.
However, sometimes I feel that it will be very useful if I could create missing alternate files, so ...
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How do you remap keys in :history or :highlight?
I use Colemak hnei for nav in normal mode, but my keys default to hjkl when when I'm viewing :history and :highlight. How do I remap these keys?
My guess is that the program may be switching to more....
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moving through the doc, caret staying centered
I move around using the arrows ←↓↑→, never really got used to the hjkl thing. I know I'm supposed to use the hjkl thing.
When hitting ↓, it reaches a point where the caret is on the lower side of the ...
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How to go to before last character in a line? [closed]
I know its a simple one, but I've had no luck finding it so far.
I known A, brings you to the end of a line.
However, I would like to jump to and, insert after the second last character.
Example:
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Read-only mode in Vim while using cscope?
I am traversing through a C code in Vim using cscope. Sometimes while traversing, some key gets pressed or mouse gets right-clicked and the Vim enters in insert mode, and it creates a mess to undo the ...
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Incremental search: is it possible to push 'Esc` without scrolling back?
My problem on this gif:
I am in one place, searching for meta, I do not want to loose my current search highlighting (yes I know that I can restore it later in / menu). I found what I need - without ...
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Move to first word of paragraph in vim with { and }
Since Vim considers paragraphs as lines/sentences separated by blank lines the paragraph movement with { and } feels little weird to me as it takes you to the next blank line and you always have to ...
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changes command only display current file change history
The :changes command listed the change history of current file. However when I work with multiple buffers, I want to list changes to all the buffers I opened in current vim-server, like the behavior ...
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How to jump to the previous location in the same file?
I mean like CTRL-O (repeatedly) but limited to the current file only.
Sometimes I check stuff in another file(say using goto definition). And it loads it into the same window.
Still, I want to focus ...
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Equivalent to tmux CTRL+B z in vim?
In tmux if you have alot of panes open, you can press CTRL+B, z to zoom into that terminal pane. Is there a way to do the same thing in vim, to zoom into / out of the selected pane?
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how to skip commented lines when navigating?
When navigating in normal mode by j or k, I want to skip commented lines.
Is it possible? Is there a vimscript snippet for that?
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How to automatically return to where the cursor was before executing cdo?
Is it possible to automatically return to where the cursor was before running :cdo command?
Currently, the cursor ends in the last file in the quickfix, then I have to navigate back to where I was ...
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creating a menu for navigation in file
while coding in vim I use often special comment to denote
section of the file. For example in C it is
//;; some title 1
//;; some title 2
I have also configured a shortcut to print with a global ...
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Is there a way to change the “current buffer”--the one that gets defined when I use “n” and “N”?
Once in a while I do work on a large number of files (i.e. today it was about 1,700) using a command such as:
gvim `find . -name *.cpp`
and I use the "n" (no changes) or "wn" (made a change) to go ...
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move forward by a certain number of chars or bytes?
Sometimes I need to move to a particular byte offset or move to the nth unicode rune in a file (utf-8).
Does vim expose a way to move to an absolute byte/char offset or to move the cursor forward a ...
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Plugin for showing marks by *highlighting entire line*, instead of using signcolumn?
I write code mostly on my laptop for portability. It's a small monitor, so plugins that use the "sign column" tend to take up too much space. For example, I have my Syntastic plugin configured to ...
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Show Outline of Code
Is there a way, built-in or with a plugin, to get an outline of my code in Vim?
In Eclipse, there is a panel that shows an outline of the code in the file, showing a breakdown of the classes and ...
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Jump to Next Number
Is there a command in Vim to move the cursor to the next number? I know I can do f2 to find the number 2 in the same line, but I'm looking for a more general number-jumping command.
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How to move to top/bottom of region delimited by consecutive blank lines
I have two commands for somewhat emulating the Emacs command narrow-to-defun.
I have two commands that move to the top/bottom of the current paragraph
nnoremap <silent> <leader>gt mp{...
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How to setup the default browser to follow hyperlinks [closed]
On a text file with a hyperlink (http://url/) if I hover the mouse over the hyperlink and click on it, it is opened on chrome. How can I change the browser that vim decides to use when following ...
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How to show the current location in a yaml hierarchy
When working with larger or rather deeply nested yaml files (Hi Rails), it happens quickly that I loose sight of where I am with regards to the indentation hierarchy of the file.
A very simple ...
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How do you page through the jump list?
With the :jumps command, you can display the list of jump locations to aid navigation. That is you can use CTRL_O and CTRL_I to jump backwards and forwards respectively.
However, my jump lists appear ...
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Move to next keyword in vim?
I want to map W to jump to the next keyword of the language
or
jump to the next interestingly syntax highlighted word
eg:
For the following snippet
SELECT *
FROM Fruits
WHERE Fruits.name = 'Apple'...
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Jump to next occurrence of the current character
I often navigate to the next occurrence of the current non-paren character. For example,
`HTTP GET www.example.com/example/com` is an example URL.
When the cursor is at the beginning of the line at ...
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configure vim to process argv and understand filename:linenumber
Does vim expose an api for manipulating argv before the "main program" looks at it?
I want to be able to use the syntax:
$ vim /path/to/my/file:100
and have it mean the same thing as
$ vim +100 /...
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Go forward to first alphabetic character
Is there a way to go forward to the first letter, maybe using f other than specifying the letter itself?
In other words I want to skip over whitespace, symbols and digits.
The reason I ask is that I ...
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How do I jump to the next line with the same indent level?
I have a space formatted (yaml) file like the following:
en:
templates:
template: "VERYLONGTEXTHEREWITHHUNDREDSOFLINES"
destination: "I want to jump here"
other: stuff
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Remapped keys won't work when combined
I have these lines in my .vimrc:
" Remap movement
nnoremap j h
nnoremap k j ...
