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Moving the cursor another place in the buffer.

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Consider following text. Let us jump to the line below clone (/clone<enter>j). From there let's select a rectangle up to <ctrl>v/d the most<enter>. Now lets say that I reconsidered ...
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Imagine that I have a text with longer lines as the screen. So: 1 Quantum field theory is a set of ideas and tools <-- end of screen 2 that combines three of the major themes of modern <-- ...
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I make a lot of use of till and forward when I'm moving around. When I'm creating ASCII diagrams I find myself wanting a similar version for up and down. Using this usenet logical map featured on ...
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Suppose we did exec 'vert term bash -c "cmd"' where cmd is a command whose output consists of multiple lines. By default vim will place the cursor at the last line of the output. How to make ...
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I'm asking this question because I'm investigating Implement a decent vi editing mode #60. So I'm trying to fully understand how ; and , are supposed to work in Vim. I have the impression that when I ...
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When in a visual selection you can press o to have the cursor jump between the start and end of the selection without affecting what is actually selected. Is there a way to do a similar thing, but in ...
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:help jumpto-diffs gives commands to jump between changes in a vimdiff: Two commands can be used to jump to diffs: *[c* [c Jump backwards to the previous start ...
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I’m in the process of learning vim, so I’m sorry if I’m asking an obvious question. The problem: if, inside a script, I use a bash "case" statement, if I’m in insert mode, my cursor can’t ...
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In insert mode, I want to move between WORDs (like normal mode's big W), so that I can save keystrokes. Specifically, inoremap ., to go left and inoremap ,. to go right. This way I can avoid changing ...
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If I want to move up and down the display lines in normal mode, I have to press gj and gk repeatedly. Is there a way so I could just press j and k repeatedly and temporarily to do so?
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In the normal mode of Vim (default keymaps), other than hjkl or the arrow keys, spacebar moves the cursor right, backspace moves the cursor left, enter moves the cursor down. Is there another key (not ...
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The commnad: :s/foo/&bar when applied to a line containing foo, catches it and append bar on it, then user hits Enter, the cursor immediately gets into very beginning of the line. How to let it ...
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In Vim while in the INSERT mode, I would like to be able to move between lines using the left and right arrow keys. For example, if the cursor is at the beginning of a line and I press the left arrow ...
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I enjoy using ctrl-i and ctrl-o to quickly jump back large distances in a file. I would enjoy if this functionality could be extended to the in-line motions such as f, F, w, b, ... I understand that ...
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Assume you have the following block of text (yes: I am using vim-latex, but this is not relevant): \begin{itemize} \item 1 % [[[ \item 2 \item 3 \item 4 \item 5 % ]]] \item 6 \end{itemize} My ...
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