Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
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Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
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Re: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#2In addition to that, I can heartily recommend the ZoomWindowPlugin:
https://github.com/skeept/dotvim/blob/master/plugin/ZoomWinP...
Basically, if you have multiple split windows, it allows you to do a cmd+O to zoom the current split view (i.e. making it the only view visible). That's neat if there's something tricky going on (say a weird bug) and you want to focus just on this piece of code, without seeing anything else. Once you're done, you can hit cmd+O again, and your old split setup comes back. I love this plugin.
Re: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#3au VimResized * exe "normal! \="
Re: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#4I have mapped the Tab key to move between split windows. I also mapped Ctrl+T to open a new tab, and CTRL-H and CTRL-L to move to the left/right tab respectively. It works well and seem pretty natural. I suppose if I had a giant monitor I could use more splits, but realistically more than two of them feels very cramped. My .vimrc is here: https://raw.github.com/ipartola/ipartola-bash-and-vim/master...
The relevant parts are:
" shortcuts
map
" Tabs
map :tabnew
map :tabnext
map :tabpreviousRe: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#5Also, I use dwm for tiled windows:
Re: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#6After years of abusing my little finger for using Ctrl & the RSI that goes with it, I tend to use alt/meta with my thumb more and more nowadays, for this I make it usable in insert mode also, this is probably one of the oldest bits of my .vimrc
"quick window movements
map
map l
map k
map j
map h
imap li
imap ki
imap ji
imap hiRe: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#7I forgot where I found it, but someone uses | and _ to split windows in vim, which I find more intuitive and easier to use:
" Split window vertically
nnoremap v
" Split window horizontally
nnoremap _ s
" Use tab to toggle between windows
nnoremap wRe: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#8In addition to that, I can heartily recommend the ZoomWindowPlugin: https://github.com/skeept/dotvim/blob/master/plugin/ZoomWinP... Basically, if you have multiple split windows, it allows you to do a cmd+O to zoom the current split view (i.e. making it the only view visible). That's neat if there's something tricky going on (say a weird bug) and you want to focus just on this piece of code, without seeing anything e…
Any advantage to this plugin over mapping one key to ':tabopen' and another to ':tabclose %'? I have this in my .vimrc and it seems to get the same results:
nmap :tabedit %
nmap :tabcloseRe: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#9After years of abusing my little finger for using Ctrl & the RSI that goes with it, I tend to use alt/meta with my thumb more and more nowadays, for this I make it usable in insert mode also, this is probably one of the oldest bits of my .vimrc "quick window movements map map l map k map j map h imap li imap ki imap ji imap hi
Only problem with those imaps is that now you can't type ì, ë, ê, or è. Vim is pretty dumb about utf-8.
I'd also suggest using instead of the ...i dance.
Edit: "The way [Vim] stores alt+letter in its input queue collides with UTF-8/Unicode handling" -- LeoNerd in freenode/#vim at 2013-04-15 15:22:29
Re: Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally
#10au VimResized * exe "normal! \ ="
You can change that to
au VimResized * wincmd =