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As the author of Mastering Vim Quickly I sometimes get various Vim related questions from my readers.
Much more often I get emails from my subscribers at masteringvim.com where I share free Vim tips.
Although this command is very simple, my experience showed that a lot of people are not aware of it. So it’s time to try to change that :)
Yesterday I was contacted by one of my readers – and as always, I try to answer my readers as soon as possible.
As you can see from the screenshot, he needed to get from this
postscore(font, number, color, lang, size)
to this:
postscore(font, number, color, lang, size)
He knew that there must be a better way, than going to Insert mode, and using arrow keys and Backspace. And there is.
The solution to this is simple – put your cursor anywhere on the line where lang,
is, and hit J (Shift+j). That’s a join command. For more info see :help J
So, whenever you want to merge two lines into one, position the cursor anywhere on the first line, and press J to join the two lines. Simple as that :)
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