vi cursor movement

2009 Mar 01

h
j
k
l

left
down
up
right

w
W
b
B
e
E

forward by word
forward by word after white space
backward by word
backward by word after white space
end of word
end of word before white space

0 $	first column of current line last column of current line
- ^ + RET n\|	first non blank of prev line first non blank of curr line first non blank of next line first non blank of next line column n of curr line
zRET z. z-	reposition line with cursor to top of screen reposition line with cursor to middle of screen reposition line with cursor to bottom of screen

nH H M L nL	n lines after top of screen top line of screen middle line of screen bottom line of screen n lines before bottom of screen
Ctrl-F Ctrl-D Ctrl-E Ctrl-L Ctrl-Y Ctrl-U Ctrl-V	scroll forward one screen scroll forward one half screen show one more line at bottom redraw screen without scrolling show one more line at top scroll backward one half screen scroll backward one screen

/pattern ?pattern	search forward for pattern search backward for pattern
/ ?	repeat previous search forward repeat previous search backward
n N	repeat last search in same direction repeat last search in opposite direction

fx Fx tx Tx	search forward for character x in curr line search backward for character x in curr line search forward to character before x in curr line search backward to character after x in curr line
;	repeat previous curr line search
'	repeat previous curr line search in opposite direction

Ctrl-G	display current line number
nG :n	move to line n
G :$	move to last line

mx `x ` `	mark current position as x move cursor to mark x return to previous mark or context
'x ' '	move to beginning of line containing mark x move to beginning of line containing previous mark

%	If cursor is on one of: ( ) [ ] { }, it goes to balancing character, e.g. from ) to (.

2005-2009