Tip #48: Moving around

created:		March 14, 2001 8:36		complexity:		basic
author:		Anonymous		as of Vim:		5.7

You can save a lot of time when navigating through the text by using
appropriate movements commands. In most cases the cursor keys,
<PageUp> or <PageDown> are NOT the best choice.

Here is a selection of some basic movement commands that
hopefully helps you to acquire a taste for more:

e   - move to the end of a word                  
w   - move forward to the beginning of a word    
3w  - move forward three words
b   - move backward to the beginning of a word
3b  - move backward three words

$       - move to the end of the line          
<End>   - same as $
0       - move to the beginning of the line
<Home>  - same as 0

)   - jump forward one sentence
(   - jump backward one sentence

}   - jump forward one paragraph
{   - jump backward one paragraph

H   - jump to the top of the display      
M   - jump to the middle of the display  
L   - jump to the bottom of the display

'm  - jump to the beginning of the line of mark m
`m  - jump to the location of mark m

G   - jump to end of file
1G  - jump to beginning of file
50G - jump to line 50

'' - return to the line where the cursor was before the latest jump
`` - return to the cursor position before the latest jump (undo the jump).

%  - jump to corresponding item, e.g. from an open brace to its
     matching closing brace
  
For some more interesting movement commands (especially those
for programmers) refer to:

:help motion.txt

:help search-commands

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