Scroll horizontally without moving cursor

[James M Beck]

Hi all,

How would I scroll the window left and right, without moving the cursor?
I'm looking for something similar to the way C-y and C-e move the screen
up and down.

Thanks,

[Ben Schmidt]

Post by James M Beck
How would I scroll the window left and right, without moving the cursor?
I'm looking for something similar to the way C-y and C-e move the screen
up and down.

:help scroll-horizontal

Basically it's z followed by a horizontal movement (left, right, h, l).

Ben.



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[Tony Mechelynck]

Post by James M Beck
Hi all,
How would I scroll the window left and right, without moving the cursor?
I'm looking for something similar to the way C-y and C-e move the screen
up and down.
Thanks,

All the following require ":setlocal nowrap" and the cursor on a line longer
than the window width.

Adapted from ":help scroll-horizontal":

[count]zl scroll the text [count] characters to the left (default 1).
[count]z<Right> same as zl
[count]zh scroll the text [count] characters to the right (default 1).
[count]z<Left> same as zh
zL scroll the text half a screenwidth left
zH scroll the text half a screenwidth right
zs scroll to put the cursor at the left margin
ze scroll to put the cursor at the right margin.

You can also use the mouse on the horizontal scrollbar.

Note: In Vim, the cursor position for the current window MUST always be
visible. If you scroll the cursor position off the screen, the cursor will
move to remain on-screen.


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[James M Beck]

Thanks guys. I have no idea why I didn't see what I was looking for in the
help files, but this is exactly what I wanted.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:18:42 -0500, Tony Mechelynck

Post by Tony Mechelynck

Post by James M Beck
Hi all,
How would I scroll the window left and right, without moving the cursor?
I'm looking for something similar to the way C-y and C-e move the screen
up and down.
Thanks,

All the following require ":setlocal nowrap" and the cursor on a line longer
than the window width.
[count]zl scroll the text [count] characters to the left (default 1).
[count]z<Right> same as zl
[count]zh scroll the text [count] characters to the right (default 1).
[count]z<Left> same as zh
zL scroll the text half a screenwidth left
zH scroll the text half a screenwidth right
zs scroll to put the cursor at the left margin
ze scroll to put the cursor at the right margin.
You can also use the mouse on the horizontal scrollbar.
Note: In Vim, the cursor position for the current window MUST always be
visible. If you scroll the cursor position off the screen, the cursor will
move to remain on-screen.
Best regards,
Tony.