Vi(m) tip #7: resize vertical split screen

Alec Jacobson

April 19, 2010

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You can resize vertical split screen windows in vim using the following commands. To make the current window shrink in width (you can precede these with numbers):

<CTRL>+W <

and similarly to grow in width

<CTRL>+W >

To make the current window full width:

<CTRL>+W |

To return to equal widths

<CTRL>+W =