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I see a lot of talk about different keys (<C-R>, <C-j>, and <C-w>) in Vim and I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere (:help?) that tells what they are. I figured out <C-R> is Enter ("carriage return", I suppose) but often the others don't make immediate sense.
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Silent. Adding <silent> prevents stdout in Vim when a command runs. Sometimes when you execute a command call in Vim, it gets echoed.
Key mapping refers to creating a shortcut for repeating a sequence of keys or commands. You can map keys to execute frequently used key sequences or to invoke an Ex command or to invoke a Vim function or to invoke external commands. Using key maps you can define your own Vim commands.
In vim, control-left and control-right are back and forward whitespace-separated word (i.e. synonyms for B and W), the same as web textareas and bash . But when running screen , these keys stop working. When pressed, vim instead switches to its command line and enters 5C or 5D there.
So many key-bindings to learn in vim, you'd better learn how to use the :help.
There are some tips to get help quickly:
Ctrl-W in normal mode:
:h ^w
Ctrl-W in insert mode:
:h i^w
Ctrl-W in visual mode:
:h v^w
Ctrl-W in command mode:
:h c^w
Open help in another tabpage:
:tab h ^w
These are not keys, they are keys associated with the control key. <C-j> means "Press j while pressing control".
<C-R> is not carriage return, it's the redo command. <CR> is carriage return. <C-F> is page up, <C-B> is page down, ...
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The control keys. For instance, using <C-w> h (or j, k, l) will toggle between open buffers.
<C-j> will move you down a line. Also, I could be wrong, but I believe the carriage return is <CR> (not <C-R>).
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