how can i intuitively move cursor in vim?(not by line)

Question

if some lines are too long, it will be forced to be newlined.

for example, normally a long line will looks like this

1 first line
2 this is the long          


        

Answer 1

To move in vim in a natural way is possible.

What I did was, and I suggest you, to modify (or create) your "~/.vimrc" and add these two lines:

map <C-Up> g<Up>
map <C-Down> g<Down>

This will map you control-up and control-down to the movements commands (this is coherent with control-right and control-left to move around long lines)

If you add these other two lines, you can use the same command to move in insertmode:

imap <C-Up> <C-[> g<Up> i
imap <C-Down> <C-[> g<Down> i

(VIM is great !)

Greg Ruo

Answer 2

In Vim, the gj and gk commands move by line on the screen rather than by line in the file. This sounds like it probably matches your description.

You can modify your keys like this:

:map j gj
:map k gk

Answer 3

No, if some lines are too long and you have set wrap on they will be shown on "two lines", so to say, but there won't be a newline character between them. If you turn off wrap with set nowrap you'll see the effect.

Normally, k and j move you up and down. If you want to navigate wrapped lines use gk or gj, or just as some like it, map it to for example, the cursor keys.

nmap <up> gk
nmap <down> gj

Answer 4

This answer is derived from @mario-rossi 's answer (Kudo to him), with minor midification.

I use the normal UP and DOWN arrow key, rather than CTRL+up and CTRL+down. And somehow I need to remove one excess space in the INSERT mode mapping to avoid an off-by-one behavior.

Put the following into your ~/.vimrc:

" When a long line is wrapped, the "gk" and "gj" allow you to move up and down
" a visual line, while normal "k" and "j" move a physical line.
" The following settings map "gk" and "gj" to cursor <up> and <down>.
map <up> gk
map <down> gj
" And the following lines enables same <up> and <down> behavior in INSERT mode
imap <up> <C-[> <up>i
imap <down> <C-[> <down>i