Comments on: 8 Essential Vim Editor Navigation Fundamentals

By: 10 Vim Tutorials to Jumpstart Your Editor Skills

10 Vim Tutorials to Jumpstart Your Editor Skills — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:03:13 +0000

[...] Essential Vim editor navigation commands [...]

By: pawan kumar singh

pawan kumar singh — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:38:52 +0000

Nice post it will really help beginners to have their hands on short hand..

By: Do You Like to Perform Vi Style Editing in BASH Command Line ?

Do You Like to Perform Vi Style Editing in BASH Command Line ? — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:02:34 +0000

[...] to Vi Editor Navigation Fundamental article to understand what Vi command can be used in the command [...]

By: Benji Fisher

Benji Fisher — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:28 +0000

Under code navigation, you mention the good old % key for matching braces and parentheses. You get a whole world of extra functionality by enabling the matchit plugin and filetype plugins. In brief:

:runtime macros/matchit.vim
:filetype plugin on

Now, open an HTML file (for example), put the cursor on a tag (inside, not on, the angle brackets) and hit % to jump to the closing tag. For details,

:help matchit-install
:help :filetype-plugin-on

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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:26:50 +0000

[...] to our earlier article about: 8 Essential Vim Editor Navigation Fundamentals. You can pretty much use all the Vim navigation commands inside the [...]

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:18:47 +0000

@Ken,

Thanks a lot for your input. I’ve added the shortcuts that you’ve suggested to the article.

By: SathiyaMoorthy

SathiyaMoorthy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:36:32 +0000

@vimer Thanks for your comment, and also for the short introduction about the MARKS, for which we have a detailed article at How To Add Bookmarks Inside Vi and Vim Editor

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:44:19 +0000

Okay.. I’ve been using vim for a while and I thought I knew most of the goofy little shortcuts.

very cool. Screen shortcuts I wasn’t aware of and some of the special navigation shortcuts are new. Thanks for the post.

By: Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:52:03 +0000

2. Vim Screen Navigation

. . .

* ctrl+f – Jump forward one full screen.

* ctrl+b – Jump backwards one full screen

* ctrl+d – Jump forward (down) a half screen

* ctrl+u – Jump back (up) one half screen

3. Vim Special Navigation

. . .

* g – Go to the beginning of the file.

Misc

* ctrl+g – Report cursor position within the file in the status line at the bottom of the screen.

By: Onan the Barbarian

Onan the Barbarian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:29:43 +0000

Another line navigation command:
N| – go to column N