move.nvim

Gain the power to move lines and blocks!

Vertical Movement

Horizontal Movement

Requirements

This plugin works with NeoVim v0.5 or later.

Installation

• packer.nvim

use 'fedepujol/move.nvim'

• vim-plug

Plug 'fedepujol/move.nvim'

• paq

'fedepujol/move.nvim';

Usage

The plugin provides the following commands:

Command	Description	Mode
MoveLine	Moves a line up or down	Normal
MoveBlock	Moves a selected block of text, up or down	Visual
MoveHChar	Moves the character under the cursor, left or right	Normal
MoveHBlock	Moves a visual area, left or right	Visual

Mappings

VimScript

" Normal-mode commands
nnoremap <silent> <A-j> :MoveLine(1)<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <A-k> :MoveLine(-1)<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <A-l> :MoveHChar(1)<CR>
nnoremap <silent> <A-h> :MoveHChar(-1)<CR>

" Visual-mode commands
vnoremap <silent> <A-j> :MoveBlock(1)<CR>
vnoremap <silent> <A-k> :MoveBlock(-1)<CR>
vnoremap <silent> <A-l> :MoveHBlock(1)<CR>
vnoremap <silent> <A-h> :MoveHBlock(-1)<CR>

Lua

local opts = { noremap = true, silent = true }
-- Normal-mode commands
vim.keymap.set('n', '<A-j>', ':MoveLine(1)<CR>', opts)
vim.keymap.set('n', '<A-k>', ':MoveLine(-1)<CR>', opts)
vim.keymap.set('n', '<A-h>', ':MoveHChar(-1)<CR>', opts)
vim.keymap.set('n', '<A-l>', ':MoveHChar(1)<CR>', opts)

-- Visual-mode commands
vim.keymap.set('v', '<A-j>', ':MoveBlock(1)<CR>', opts)
vim.keymap.set('v', '<A-k>', ':MoveBlock(-1)<CR>', opts)
vim.keymap.set('v', '<A-h>', ':MoveHBlock(-1)<CR>', opts)
vim.keymap.set('v', '<A-l>', ':MoveHBlock(1)<CR>', opts)

Mention

There is an original and more feature rich plugin (written in VimScript):

vim-move.