To switch from vertical split to horizontal split fast in Vim

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How can you switch your current windows from horizontal split to vertical split and vice versa in Vim   I did that a moment ago by accident but I cannot find the key again

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Ctrl-w followed by H  J  K or L  capital  will move the current window to the far left  bottom  top or right respectively like normal cursor navigation   The lower case equivalents move focus instead of moving the window

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Vim mailing list says  re-formatted for better readability       To change two vertically split   windows to horizonally split      Ctrl-w t Ctrl-w K      Horizontally to vertically       Ctrl-w t Ctrl-w H      Explanations       Ctrl-w t     makes the first  topleft  window current      Ctrl-w K     moves the current window to full-width at the very top      Ctrl-w H     moves the current window to full-height at far left   Note that the t is lowercase  and the K and H are uppercase   Also  with only two windows  it seems like you can drop the Ctrl-w t part because if you re already in one of only two windows  what s the point of making it current

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The following ex commands will  re- split any number of windows    To split vertically  e g  make vertical dividers between windows   type  vertical ball To split horizontally  type  ball   If there are hidden buffers  issuing these commands will also make the hidden buffers visible

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When you have two or more windows open horizontally or vertically and want to switch them all to the other orientation  you can use the following    switch to horizontal    windo wincmd K    switch to vertical    windo wincmd H   It s effectively going to each window individually and using  WK or  WH

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Inspired by Steve answer  I wrote simple function that toggles between vertical and horizontal splits for all windows in current tab  You can bind it to mapping like in the last line below   function  ToggleWindowHorizontalVerticalSplit     if  exists  t splitType       let t splitType    vertical    endif    if t splitType     vertical    is vertical switch to horizontal     windo wincmd K     let t splitType    horizontal     else   is horizontal switch to vertical     windo wincmd H     let t splitType    vertical    endif endfunction  nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt leader gt wt  call ToggleWindowHorizontalVerticalSplit   lt cr gt

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Horizontal to vertical split      Ctrl W for window command  followed by Shift H or Shift L        Vertical to horizontal split      Ctrl W for window command  followed by Shift K or Shift J   Both solutions apply when only two windows exist     Open help in a vertical split by default  Add both of these lines to  vimrc   cabbrev help vert help cabbrev h vert h    vert ical   cmd  always executes the cmd in a vertically split window

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Following Mark Rushakoff s tip above  here is my mapping     vertical to horizontal     - gt  --   noremap  lt c-w gt -   lt c-w gt t lt c-w gt K   horizontal to vertical   -- - gt      noremap  lt c-w gt      lt c-w gt t lt c-w gt H noremap  lt c-w gt     lt c-w gt t lt c-w gt H noremap  lt c-w gt     lt c-w gt t lt c-w gt H   Edit  use Ctrl-w r to swap two windows if they are not in the good order

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In VIM  take a look at the following to see different alternatives for what you might have done    help opening-window  For instance   Ctrl-W s Ctrl-W o Ctrl-W v Ctrl-W o Ctrl-W s

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