There are several shortcuts to change the split screen window size of VIM. You can see from the screenshot below that the copied text is pasted correctly.Ĭhange the Split Screen Window Size of VIM Then go back to “Command Mode” by pressing and press to paste the copied text. Now go to “Insert Mode” by pressing ‘i’ and navigate to the place where you want to paste the text. Now go to another window by pressing + and then any of or depending on your choice. To do that, from the “Command Mode”, first go to the location from where you want to start your selection and press to go to the “Visual Mode” of VIM and select the substring and press. Let’s say I want to copy the text “good text editor” to another VIM window. I have 3 different text files opened in 3 different windows on VIM as you can see from the screenshot. You can go to the window above the selected window by pressing + and then pressing Ĭopy and Paste Texts Between VIM Split Screens You can go to the window below the selected window by pressing + and then pressing You currently selected window should be split vertically as shown in the screenshot below. To open a new VIM window on the bottom of the currently selected window, press + then press. You can move to the left window again by pressing + and then pressing. Now you can move to the right window from the left by pressing + and then pressing To open a new VIM window next to the existing one, press + then press. Splitting VIM screen Horizontally and Vertically FILE_PATH can be relative path to the directory where you opened VIM from or full path.

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