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Victor Lee
Victor Lee

Reputation: 2678

vim: how to move window neither use ctrl+w+ nor change default key setting

I use split command to open more than one window in the browser,and I want to change the position by using 'ctrl+w+ direction', it will close the current browser tab because of the default key shortcut in Chrome. I don't want to change any setting in vim or browser, would you help me? Maybe there are some command like 'next' ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1175

Answers (1)

filbranden
filbranden

Reputation: 8908

You can use :wincmd to access any windows commands without having to use the CTRL-W keystroke.

For example, :wincmd H to make the current window a vertical split taking the whole left side (same as CTRL-W H would do.)

But at some point you might end up wanting to set a mapping. Do you want to type :wincmd w every time you want to switch to the next window? Even if you don't want to set that up in vimrc, perhaps a quick :map \w <c-w> is all you need to use \w instead of CTRL-W everywhere? Or pick something similarly short. You can type this mapping about as quickly as a :wincmd command and then you can have all window commands accessible without having to hit the problematic CTRL-W...

Upvotes: 7

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