title: "Minimizing" vertical VIM window splits
body: <p>I use horizontal and vertical window splits in religiously in VIM and up until recently, I enjoyed the comfort of two commands to effectively hide (or minimize) my horizontal splits. I set them up adding the following lines to my <code>.vimrc</code> file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>set winminheight=0
  map &lt;C-J&gt; &lt;C-W&gt;j&lt;C-W&gt;_
  map &lt;C-K&gt; &lt;C-W&gt;k&lt;C-W&gt;_
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hitting <code>Control-j</code> or <code>Control-k</code> navigates through horizontal splits by going up or down.  What I'd like to accomplish is the same thing for vertical splits by showing or hiding the left or right split using <code>Control-Shift-h</code> and <code>Control-Shift-l</code>; <code>h</code> moving to the left, <code>l</code> moving to the right.  I have tried the following with little to no success:</p>
  
  <pre><code>set winminwidth=0
  map &lt;S-C-L&gt; 500&lt;C-W&gt;h&lt;C-W&gt;_
  map &lt;S-C-H&gt; 500&lt;C-W&gt;l&lt;C-W&gt;_
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The action would be similar to utilizing <code>Control-w-&lt;</code> and <code>Control-w-&gt;</code>, only moving the vertical split <em>completely</em> to the left or write, not just one line at a time. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Thanks.</p>