Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Re: Using Vim's :help feature to find keyboard shortcuts

On 2011-11-22, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am trying to find a keyboard shortcut in VIM for inserting a new
> line below the cursor and moving to it, from Insert mode. Basically
> this would be <ESC>o so it would be easy to map, but I suspect that
> this handy shortcut must already exist (it does exist in IDEs such as
> Eclipse and Visual Studio).
>
> Assuming that it might be some modifier key (shift, ctrl, alt) and
> either Enter or O itself, I tried various combinations of ":help
> ctrl-enter". This, in addition to experimentation and googling. The
> VIM help system tells me that it has no entry for ctrl-enter, and even
> though I found via google that Ctrl-o,o does what I want, the help
> text for Ctrl-o makes no mention of what this shortcut does in Insert
> mode. That, or I am using it wrong. Am I using the help wrong? Should
> the help text describe what the shortcut does in Insert mode too?

For a complete list of all the "shortcuts" see

:help index

Regards,
Gary

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