“Minimizing” vertical VIM window splits

Question

I use horizontal and vertical window splits in religiously in VIM and up until recently, I enjoyed the comfort of two commands to effectively hide (or minimize) my horizontal sp

Answer 1

Try

set winminwidth=0
map  h|
map  l|

This doesn't move a window completely to the left or right (that's H and L), it just moves the cursor to the left (or right) window and maximizes that window horizontally.

See :help CTRL_W_bar for more.