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How to switch between window splits in Vim?
(1) In order to move to the file in the split above my current window, I was typing Ctrl-W, Up (move up a window) Ctrl-W, _ (maximize the window). That’s four keystrokes (more if you count Ctrl and Shift), and they are all over the keyboard. To help avoid this problem, I created this mapping in my .vimrc:
Is there a way to show all files in Vim?
(2) By default, Vim displays the current line of each minimized file, which (to me) isn’t much help and takes up too much screen real estate. I use this line in my .vimrc: This sets the minimum window height to 0, so you can stack many more files before things get crowded. Vim will only display the filename.
How to change the size of a Vim window?
Here was my solution: By adding the value ’15’ in the appropriate spot, it designates a specific size for a window.
How to move cursor between windows in Vim?
In this case it helps to set the winheight less than the screen height and then set winminheight before setting winheight=999 again. So to have the settings in .vimrc: I created the SwitchWindow function which uses the ALT left/right/up/down cursor keys to easily move between windows.
How to change the size of a window in Vim?
:vsplit (short form: :vs) split the Vim viewport vertically. :30vs splits the viewport, making the new window 30 characters wide. Once this 30 char window is created, how would one change it’s size to 31 or 29? With horizontal windows Ctrl – W + increases the number of lines by one.
How do I change the split’s width and height?
This is one of the few reasons I like to use vim’s mouse mode. If you use the GUI version, or your terminal supports sending drag events (such as xterm or rxvt-unicode) you can click on the split line and drag to resize the window exactly where you want, without a lot of guess work using the ctrl-w plus,minus,less,greater combinations.
Is it possible to resize a window in gVim?
To resize in different steps, you can create maps that will adjust the window size differently. For example to increase the window size by a factor of 1.5 and decrease the window size by 0.67, you can map this: In Gvim and vim in terminals with mouse support, it is also possible to use the mouse to resize a window.