Mastering Vim

Creating, deleting, and navigating windows

Let's give working with windows a shot. Open animal_farm.py (either from a command line by running $ vim animal_farm.py or from Vim with :e animal_farm.py).

Open one of our files in a split window:

:split animals/cat.py

You can shorten this command to :sp.

You can see that animals/cat.py was opened above the current file and that your cursor was placed there:

You can split the window vertically as well by running the following code:

:vsplit farm.py

As you can see, this creates another window in a vertical split (your cursor is now moved to the new window):

:vs is a shorter version of the :vsplit ...