Say I want to edit the following line:
var myVar =
"I am a string!";
So that it looks like this:
var myVar = "I am a string!";
Is there a movement that goes to the end of the previous line?
What you want is the line join command, J.
In normal mode, put your cursor anywhere on the var myVar =
line and type J (capital j).
Direction-wise motions work with J - 5J indents 5 lines below the cursor, etc. You can also select a range of lines using visual mode (v to start visual mode selection) and join them all into one using J.
See the Vim documentation for this key.
The &joinspaces
option affects this behavior as well. When it's "on" (set joinspaces
or set js
) it adds two spaces after a sentence-ending mark (i.e. '.', '?', or '!') when joining lines. set nojoinspaces
or set nojs
to turn that off and insert only one space.