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zt, zz and zb are great too. They redraw the screen so that the line the cursor is currently on becomes the top, middle, or bottom line of the window.

• Jach 15y ago
  Other "z" commands (these are the ones I always get mixed up): :setlocal spell spelllang=en_us - turn on spell check z= - bring up list of suggestions zg - add word to dict zug - undo add to word zw - mark as wrong zuw - undo wrong :help fold zf<motion> - create fold (common motions '%', 'a{', 'a(' ) zo - open fold zA - open folds recursively zc - close fold zd - forget fold zj - move to next fold zk - move to prev fold (up)
  • re_todd 15y ago
    Yeah, I like the fold commands, which I barley discovered a few weeks ago. I typically do "set foldmethod=indent" then pres "zr" multiple times until I'm at the fold level I want. Then I can just do "zo" on the parts of code I'm interested in.
  • jamesrcole 15y ago
    there's also zR - Open all folds zM - Close all folds zO - Open all folds under the cursor recursively zC - Close all folds under the cursor recursively zX - Undo manually opened and closed folds: re-apply 'foldlevel'.
  • Nick_C 15y ago
    Some simple mnemonics might help you out. zg g = Good word, add to personal dict zug Undo Good word. zw obviously, Wrong word. ... zo Open zA open All zc Close zj uses the same movement as the j key zk ditto Once you have the mnemonics sorted, sometimes you find you can remember the others because they are the ones "left out" of those with mnemonics, like zd doesn't have a mnemonic, so the command left over is "forget fold", so zd is that one. After a while, muscle memory takes over.
• malingo 15y ago
  I'm a big fan of Ctrl-e and Ctrl-y which, despite being in the "one line at a time" category, are really useful for changing the context of the cursor a little bit without changing the cursor's line. I've even gone as far as to remap those to J and K.
• Ziomislaw 15y ago
  thanks! I knew zz 'centers the screen'. you made it a lot clearer ;p