Vim: Remap key to go to the next non-empty line (and vice versa)

Question

I am looking for a way to reassign a key to move the cursor to the next line, skipping any lines that contain only \nand a way to do the same, only to the next line.

Essentially, I want to do the opposite of {and} the movements.

Answer 1

The following are alternatives to DJ mappings that go well with hlsearch:

• go to the next non-empty line

  nnoremap <key> :<C-u>call search('^.\+')<CR>
  

• go to previous non-empty line

  nnoremap <otherkey> :<C-u>call search('^.\+', 'b')<CR>
  

• expand visual selection to the next non-empty line

  xnoremap <key> :<C-u>k`\|call search('^.\+')\|normal! <C-r>=visualmode()<CR>``o<CR>
  

• expand visual selection to previous nonempty row

  xnoremap <otherkey> :<C-u>k`\|call search('^.\+', 'b')\|normal! <C-r>=visualmode()<CR>``o<CR>
  

• act on the next non-empty line

  omap <key> :<C-u>normal! v<key><CR>
  

• omap <otherkey> :<C-u>normal! v<otherkey><CR>
  

...

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• :help :normal,
• :help i_ctrl-r, :help "= :help visualmode(),
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Answer 2

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nnoremap } /^\S<cr>
nnoremap { ?^\S<cr>

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/           " Search forward
 ^          " For the start of a line
  \S        " Followed by a non-whitespace character
    <cr>    " Enter

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nnoremap } /^\S<cr>
xnoremap } /^\S<cr>
onoremap } /^\S<cr>
nnoremap { ?^\S<cr>
xnoremap { ?^\S<cr>
onoremap { ?^\S<cr>

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