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Horizontal navigation in long lines

How can I do the following:

  1. shift faster to the right, something like zw (analogy to zl but jump on words)
  2. shift only the one long line where is the cursor. The rest of the file will remain in its position

I have .vimrc settings set nowrap. That's because the code looks nicer than wrapped lines. But there is a problem with horizontal navigation.

I noticed that zl (don't confuse l (L) with 1) shortcut which shifts to the right (zh to the left).

Solution

  • Did you try :help scroll-horizontal?

    You could use a mapping to scroll, for example, 20 characters to the left or to the right:

    map <C-L> 20zl " Scroll 20 characters to the right
map <C-H> 20zh " Scroll 20 characters to the left

    Without applying a mapping, you could use zL to move the view a half screenwidth to the right and zH to do it to the left.

    Regarding the second part of your question: I don't think that this is possible. You could yank the whole line, paste it into a second (scratch) buffer and scroll there. This would work as long as you're just reading the lines. Problems will arise as soon as you want to change something. But it's quite cumbersome...