# Question on vim sendtowindow

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-on-vim-sendtowindow/128691>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** vim\
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-on-vim-sendtowindow/128691 "2025-05-04T16:54:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-on-vim-sendtowindow/128691/1 "2025-05-04T16:54:23Z")

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I have installed this on Linux mint. When I open vim and enter  
`:term julia`  
I get a split window with julia REPL on top and vim on the bottom. The active window is the REPL. How do I switch to the vim window? The tmux command ctrl-B O does not work.

Where is the command to switch windows documented?

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**Author:** ![roflmaostc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roflmaostc/32/30123_2.png) [@roflmaostc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/roflmaostc)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-on-vim-sendtowindow/128691/2 "2025-05-04T18:06:15Z")

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In my case I do `Ctrl+W+UPARROW

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**Author:** ![digital\_carver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/digital_carver/32/33818_2.png) [@digital\_carver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/digital_carver)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-on-vim-sendtowindow/128691/3 "2025-05-04T18:41:41Z")

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This is more of a vim question than a Julia question, but the usual window navigation commands should work fine (if this is Neovim, you’ll need to do a `CTRL-\ CTRL-N` first).

You can check out `:help window-move-cursor`, but here either `CTRL-W CTRL-W` or `CTRL-W` ⬇ should do the job.