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Vim: How do I treat wrapped lines as a separate line so that I can navigate to it with j or k?

Currently if my vim tab is small enough it will wrap the text like so. When I press j I want it to go to the line I visually see as the next line, which doesn't have it's own line number.

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However, vim just goes to the next line with a line number, so in this case it just goes to line 7 vim.cmd ...

Is there a way to make it treat the wrapped line as a separate line when pressing j or k?

Solution

  • You're looking for the gj, gk, etc. commands, which navigate "display lines" rather than actual file lines.

    I have the following in my vimrc so that the arrow keys navigate by display lines, but j and k continue to navigate file lines:

    nnoremap <Down> gj
nnoremap <Up> gk
vnoremap <Down> gj
vnoremap <Up> gk

    But if you want you could remap j and k instead:

    nnoremap j gj
nnoremap k gk
vnoremap j gj
vnoremap k gk