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Egor Rogov
Egor Rogov

Reputation: 5398

Vim: Lock top line of a window

Is it possible in Vim to lock the top line of a window so that the first line in buffer is always seen on top of the window?

I have a file, say, dump of a database table. On the first line there are names of columns, other lines contain data. I want to be able to scroll contents up and down, and always see column names.

N.B. Lines can be lengthy, so I use nowrap and want column names and contents to scroll right and left simultaneously. That's why :1split doesn't suit -- unless there's a way to scroll two windows at the same time.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 3992

Answers (4)

0 XIX
0 XIX

Reputation: 1

Attempted to automate it with a script in "<leader>fr"

https://github.com/PxCxio/vim-freeze-row/tree/master/doc

Did a version for nvim seems to be working smoothly

Upvotes: 0

Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 1654

Thanks guys! Let me summarize the actual commands that did the job for me:

:1spl              # create an extra window with only 1 line 
:set scrollbind    # synchronize upper window
ctr+W , arrowDown  # switch to other window
:set scrollbind    # synchronize lower window
:set sbo=hor       # synchronize horizontally

Upvotes: 6

milton
milton

Reputation: 1018

Split your window, decrease the top window height, set the top most line to be the first one and get back to the working window.

:split
:resize 1
gg
Ctrl-w w

Upvotes: 3

Brian Agnew
Brian Agnew

Reputation: 272397

You can scroll two windows at the same time, so I think you can do what you want by splitting your window, and locking the scrolling behaviour. See :scrollbind and this tip for more details. Note that you have to lock each window in order that they move in sync.

Upvotes: 2

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