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Questions tagged [key-bindings]

Doing an action when pressing a key. These are also called key mappings or mappings. For questions about default key bindings, as well as creating or redefining key bindings.

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What is the command for "Select All" in Vim and VsVim?

How do I select all the content of a file in Vim and VsVim? Like in other editors Ctrl-A does the job for select all.
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How to debug a mapping?

I see a lot of questions on here where a user has a mapping which doesn't work and most of the time the reasons are pretty similar. I suggest to make this question a reference for this kind of questions, to give a complete procedure to debug a…
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How can I find out what is set to? And is it possible to remap ?

How can I figure out which key is set as my , and how do I remap it?
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What does z stand for in vim?

I was looking up at tips on screen shifting and came across the following tips: zz = shift current line to middle of screen zt = shift current line to top of screen zb = shift current line to bottom of screen My question is what is z? What does…
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Understanding CTRL-U combination

In this answer I faced the CTRL-U used in function call after : and before the actual function name. :nnoremap :call append('.', repeat([''],v:count1)) Here is what help says: CTRL-U Scroll window Upwards in the buffer.…
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Disable but keep

For switching back from Insert mode I'm used to . Now I'm looking to retrain myself to instead of . For that i need to disable to help with the retraining. The problems is :inoremap also disables . For vim…
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File Type dependent key mapping

I'm trying to setup mappings for that, depending on the buffer's file type, trigger different functions. For example, if I'm in a Javascript buffer, I want to trigger :TernDef. If I'm in a C buffer, I want it to trigger :YcmCompleter…
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Can I map a Ctrl + upper-case letter separately from Ctrl + lower-case letter?

I am trying to figure out how to navigate windows little quicker, so I would like to map the following: :nmap :wincmd f The problem is this remaps the ^f (lower-case f) mapping, which is page down. Is there any way to remap only…
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What is the difference between "mapped key sequences" and "key codes"? (timeoutlen v ttimeoutlen)

The vim manual says we can use timeoutlen to specify the timeout length of mapped key sequences and can use ttimeoutlen to specify the timeout length of key codes: A useful setting would be :set timeout timeoutlen=3000 ttimeoutlen=100 (time out…
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How to find out what a key is mapped to?

I know that running :map commands without arguments should give me a list of user-defined mappings, but, for example, when I press Ctrl-W Ctrl-I something happens, yet I have no idea what function was just happened as built-in mappings don't appear…
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Clear a line faster than [0][d][$]

Is there a faster way to erase the text on a line than pressing 0 to jump to the start, then pressing d$ to delete until the end of the line? Also, what if I wanted to delete everything except the indentation? Is there a way to do that?
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Problem following links of vim's doc (:help) on the terminal

I'm having some trouble reading vim's documentation on the terminal because I can't follow the links that are given. I quote: Jump to a subject: Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit CTRL-]. The problem is that i'm using a spanish…
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Swap values "true" and "false" via ctrl+a, ctrl+x

I think it would be useful to have possibility to swap true and false values in the code rapidly, with combination ctrl+a or ctrl+x. Is there some plugin for that or something else?
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Is it possible to create mappings with parameters?

I have created a few mappings like so: :nnoremap xyzABC :call SomeFunc('ABC') :nnoremap xyzDE :call SomeFunc('DE') :nnoremap xyzFoo18 :call SomeFunc('Foo18') :nnoremap …
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Is it possible to map control forward-slash with vim

I'm wondering if it is possible to map control + forward-slash in vim. The mapping would be for normal mode if that makes a difference. I have tried but that didn't work. I also tried looking at the :help keycodes docs but was unable to…
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