It's annoying to delete and paste parts of a text just to move it up and down a bit. There is the :m[ove] command but it is quite awkward to use by todays standards. vim-move is a Vim plugin that moves lines and selections in a more visual manner. Out of the box, the following keys are mapped in visual and normal mode:

<A-k>   Move current line/selection up
<A-j>   Move current line/selection down

The mappings can be prefixed with a count, e.g. 5<A-k> will move the selection up by 5 lines.

See this short demo for a first impression:

This plugin is a fork of matze's vim-move. I forked it from the commit just before they added horizonal character movement, which I didn't like. This plugin only supports vertical line movement.

vim-move is compatible with all major plugin managers. For example, to install it using vim-plug, add

Plug 'sts10/vim-move'

to your Vim config file (usually .vimrc) and then run :PlugInstall.

To install it using Vundle, add

Plugin 'sts10/vim-move'

Use g:move_key_modifier to set a custom modifier for key bindings. For example,

let g:move_key_modifier = 'C'

which will create the following key bindings:

<C-k>   Move current line/selections up
<C-j>   Move current line/selections down

This plugin is licensed under MIT license.