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David542
David542

Reputation: 110173

Open new window on right, left, top, bottom

I'm able to open a new empty horizontal window by doing:

:new

And a vertical one by doing:

:vnew

The horizontal one is always positioned on the bottom, and the vertical one on the left. How would I open a new horizontal window on top of the existing one, and a new vertical window to the right of the current one?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1347

Answers (1)

runar
runar

Reputation: 2857

You can change the default placement of new windows with the splitbelow and splitright settings:

To open new horizontal windows below the current one:

set splitbelow

To open new vertical windows to the right of the current one:

set splitright

To reverse these settings, simply do set nosplitbelow or set nosplitright. If new windows open below the current window now, you should probably check if splitbelow is set.

More information is available in the documentation:

Upvotes: 3

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