Inserting a blank line in vim

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I quite often find I have a need to insert a blank line either below or above the current line when editing in vim. o and O will do this, but they subsequently switch into insert mode, which is annoying. Is there any built-in command to do this which will remain in normal mode?

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Both Tim Pope's unimpaired plugin as well as my own LineJuggler plugin provide [<Space> and ]<Space> mappings to add [count] blank lines above / below the current line.

Basically, it boils down to this:

nnoremap <silent> ]<Space> :<C-u>put =repeat(nr2char(10),v:count)<Bar>execute "'[-1"<CR>
nnoremap <silent> [<Space> :<C-u>put!=repeat(nr2char(10),v:count)<Bar>execute "']+1"<CR>

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Vim actually has several modes, of which normal and insert are just the most obvious. So to say...

To enter the command-line window from command-line mode (the mode you're in after you press :), press Ctrl-F. Now you're in the command-line window, where you can write up a command just like in insert, and edit it kinda like in normal mode. Enter will execute the command.

An example:

press : ("to get into" cmdline)
press Ctrl-F
press a
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press Esc
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It will echo' the "Hello world!" on the commandline, just like as if you've written that command from the cmdline.

Does this make any sense?

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