Move entire line up and down in Vim

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In Notepad    I can use Ctrl   Shift   Up   Down to move the current line up and down  Is there a similar command to this in Vim   I have looked through endless guides  but have found nothing   If there isn t  how could I bind the action to that key combination   Edit  Mykola s answer works for all lines  apart from those at the beginning and end of the buffer  Moving the first line up or the bottom line down deletes the line  and when moving the bottom line up it jumps two spaces initially  like a pawn  Can anyone offer any refinements

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Just add this code to  vimrc  or  gvimrc   nnoremap  lt A-j gt   m  lt CR gt    nnoremap  lt A-k gt   m-2 lt CR gt    inoremap  lt A-j gt   lt Esc gt  m  lt CR gt   gi inoremap  lt A-k gt   lt Esc gt  m-2 lt CR gt   gi vnoremap  lt A-j gt   m  gt   lt CR gt gv gv vnoremap  lt A-k gt   m-2 lt CR gt gv gv

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In command mode position the cursor on the line you want to move down  and then  ddp   Explanation  dd deletes the current line to the general buffer p puts it back AFTER the cursor position  or in case of entire lines  one line below   There is some confusion regarding commands p and P in many docs  In reality p pastes AFTER cursor  and P AT cursor

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Exactly what you re looking for in these plugins   https   github com vim-scripts upAndDown https   github com matze vim-move

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Here s a simplified version  for MacVim  using the the Wikia article examples  cf  link from gun s comment      Move selection up down  add  gv to reindent after move   vmap  lt D-S-Up gt   m-2 lt CR gt gv  vmap  lt D-S-Down gt   m  gt   lt CR gt gv   I m using only the block selection variant  because all it takes is Shift-V to select the current line  and optionally cursor up down to select some more lines   According to the shortcuts above  pressing Cmd-Shift-Up Down will shift the block selection up down   D  is the Command key in MacVim  for Windows try  C   Control   or  A   Alt   eg   lt C-A-f gt  would be Control Alt f    The Wikia article adds   gv  to these  which has the effect to adjust the indentation of the  block after the move  based on surrounding text  This is confusing so I removed it  and added shortcuts for quickly indenting the selection instead     Indent selection left right  Cmd Shift Left Right is used for Tab switching   vmap  lt D-A-Left gt   lt gv  vmap  lt D-A-Right gt   gt gv   Mind  the same can be done with  lt  lt  and    but the selection would be lost  so these shortcuts above allow to indent multiple times and still move the block around because the selection is maintained   My MacVim is configured to switch Tabs with Cmd-Shift-Left Right so I used Cmd-Alt-Left Right   Here s the Tab switching for MacVim  put in  gvimrc with the rest above     macm Window Select  Previous  Tab key  lt D-S-Left gt   macm Window Select  Next  Tab key  lt D-S-Right gt

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Move a line up  ddkP  Move a line down  ddp

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m  1 or  m -2 would do if you re moving a single line  Here s my script to move multiple lines  In visual mode  Alt-up Alt-down will move the lines containing the visual selection up down by one line  In insert mode or normal mode  Alt-up Alt-down will move the current line if no count prefix is given  If there s a count prefix  Alt-up Alt-down will move that many lines beginning from the current line up down by one line   function  MoveLines offset  range     let l col   virtcol          let l offset   str2nr a offset      exe  silent       a firstline         a lastline    m               l offset  gt  0   a lastline   l offset   a firstline   l offset      exe  normal     l col       endf  imap  lt silent gt   lt M-up gt   lt C-O gt  call MoveLines  -2   lt CR gt  imap  lt silent gt   lt M-down gt   lt C-O gt  call MoveLines   1   lt CR gt  nmap  lt silent gt   lt M-up gt   call MoveLines  -2   lt CR gt  nmap  lt silent gt   lt M-down gt   call MoveLines   1   lt CR gt  vmap  lt silent gt   lt M-up gt   call MoveLines  -2   lt CR gt gv vmap  lt silent gt   lt M-down gt   call MoveLines   1   lt CR gt gv

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A simple solution is to put in your  vimrc these lines   nmap  lt C-UP gt   m-2 lt CR gt    nmap  lt C-DOWN gt   m 1 lt CR gt

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I put the following at the end of my  vimrc file   noremap H ddkkp noremap N ddp   So now  H  and  N  move current line up and down respectively

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can use command   g   move 0  reference  https   vi stackexchange com questions 2105 how-to-reverse-the-order-of-lines

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add the following to    vimrc file  make sure you have no mapping for n m    nmap n  m  1 lt CR gt  nmap m  m -2 lt CR gt    now pressing n key will move a line down and m will move a line up

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If I want to swap one line with the line above I usually do the following  ddkP   Explanation   dd will delete the line and add it to the default register  k will move up a line  j would move down a line  P will paste above the current line

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For me  ddkkp did it  instead of ddkP with an uppercase P  which would work too

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Assuming the cursor is on the line you like to move   Moving up and down   m for move   m  1 - moves down 1 line   m -2 - move up 1 lines   Note you can replace  1 with any numbers depending on how many lines you want to move it up or down  ie  2 would move it down 2 lines  -3 would move it up 2 lines   To move to specific line   set number - display number lines  easier to see where you are moving it to    m 3 - move the line after 3rd line  replace 3 to any line you d like   Moving multiple lines   V  i e  Shift-V  and move courser up and down to select multiple lines in VIM  once selected hit   and run the commands above  m  1 etc

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In case you want to do this on multiple lines that match a specific search    Up   g Your query  normal ddp or  g Your query  m -1 Down  g Your query  normal ddp or  g Your query  m  1

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When you hit command  help move in vim  here is the result     range m ove   address              m    mo    move   E134              Move the lines given by  range  to below the line             given by  address    E g  Move current line one line down     m 1   E g  Move line with number 100 below the line with number 80     100 m 80   E g  Move line with number 100 below the line with number 200     100 m 200   E g  Move lines with number within  100  120  below the line with number 200     100 120 m 200

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This worked for me   http   vim wikia com wiki Moving lines up or down in a file  BTW  if you want to use ALT some key and your terminal  urxvt does this  refuses to comply  you should enter something like this in your  vimrc     For moving lines     is a special character  use  lt M-k gt  and  lt M-j gt  if it works  nnoremap   k mz m-2 lt CR gt  z   inoremap   j  lt Esc gt  m  lt CR gt   gi inoremap   k  lt Esc gt  m-2 lt CR gt   gi vnoremap   j  m  gt   lt CR gt gv   lt my  gt mzgv yo z nnoremap   j mz m  lt CR gt  z   vnoremap   k  m  lt -2 lt CR gt gv   gt my  lt mzgv yo z   where    is a single character that represents the ALT key  To input that character  use C v  Esc in Vim  C q  Esc on Windows

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Here is a solution that works on my machine    MacBook Pro running VIM 8 1  These commands will not delete your lines at the top or bottom of your buffer   Using the actual symbols that Alt-J and Alt-K output is a workaround for their key-codes not mapping properly in my environment    Throw this in the old  vimrc and see if works for you     Maps Alt-J and Alt-K to macros for moving lines up and down   Works for modes  Normal  Insert and Visual nnoremap    m   1 lt CR gt    nnoremap     m  -2 lt CR gt    inoremap    lt Esc gt  m   1 lt CR gt   gi inoremap     lt Esc gt  m  -2 lt CR gt   gi vnoremap    m   gt  1 lt CR gt gv gv vnoremap     m   lt -2 lt CR gt gv gv

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Put the following to your  vimrc to do the job  noremap  lt c-s-up gt   call feedkeys  line       1         ddkP    lt CR gt  noremap  lt c-s-down gt  ddp   Disappearing of the line looks like a Vim bug  I put a hack to avoid it  Probably there is some more accurate solution   Update  There are a lot of unexplained difficulties with just using Vim combinations  These are line missing and extra line jumping   So here is the scripting solution which can be placed either inside  vimrc or    vim plugin swap lines vim  function  s swap lines n1  n2      let line1   getline a n1      let line2   getline a n2      call setline a n1  line2      call setline a n2  line1  endfunction  function  s swap up       let n   line          if n    1         return     endif      call s swap lines n  n - 1      exec n - 1 endfunction  function  s swap down       let n   line          if n    line              return     endif      call s swap lines n  n   1      exec n   1 endfunction  noremap  lt silent gt   lt c-s-up gt   call  lt SID gt swap up   lt CR gt  noremap  lt silent gt   lt c-s-down gt   call  lt SID gt swap down   lt CR gt

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