Section 7.8. Window Commands

7.8. Window Commands

The following table lists common commands for controlling windows in vim. See also the split , vsplit , and resize commands in Chapter 2. For brevity, control characters are marked in the following list by ^.

Command	Action
:new	Open a new window.
:new file	Open file in a new window.
:sp file	Split the current window.
:sv file	Same as :sp, but make new window read-only.
:sn file	Edit next file in new window.
:clo	Close current window.
:hid	Hide current window, unless it is the only visible window.
:on	Make current window the only visible one.
:res n	Resize window to n lines.
:wa	Write all changed buffers to file.
:qa	Close all buffers and exit.
^W s	Same as :sp.
^W n	Same as :new.
^W ^	Open new window with alternate (previously edited) file.
^W c	Same as :clo.
^W o	Same as :only.
^W j, ^W k	Move cursor to next/previous window.
^W p	Move cursor to previous window.
^W h, ^W l	Move cursor to window on left/right.
^W t, ^W b	Move cursor to window on top/bottom of screen.
^W K, ^W B	Move current window to top/bottom of screen.
^W H, ^W L	Move current window to far left/right of screen.
^W r, ^W R	Rotate windows down/up.
^W +, ^W -	Increase/decrease current window size .
^W =	Make all windows same height.