All the right moves

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created July 9, 2002 · complexity basic · author vim_power · version 5.7

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One of the principles of effective text editing is moving around very efficiently.

Following are some pointers which may help you do that.

h   move one character left
j   move one row down
k   move one row up
l   move one character right
w   move to beginning of next word
b   move to beginning of previous word
e   move to end of word
W   move to beginning of next word after a whitespace
B   move to beginning of previous word before a whitespace
E   move to end of word before a whitespace

All the above movements can be preceded by a count; e.g. 4j will move down 4 lines.

0   move to beginning of line
$   move to end of line
^   move to first non-blank char of the line
g_  move to last non-blank char of the line

gg  move to first line
G   move to last line
nG  move to n'th line of file (where n is a number)

H   move to top of screen
M   move to middle of screen
L   move to bottom of screen

Ctrl-D  move half-page down
Ctrl-U  move half-page up
Ctrl-B  page up
Ctrl-F  page down
Ctrl-o  jump to last cursor position

n   next matching search pattern
N   previous matching search pattern
*   next word under cursor
#   previous word under cursor
g*  next matching search pattern under cursor
g#  previous matching search pattern under cursor

%   jump to matching bracket { } [ ] ( )

Comments

This would be a pretty good tip for, I think. Plus the name is ace. ;) (Spiiph 00:03, 6 August 2009 (UTC))