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Vim

Navigation

• b/B: jump to the beginning of the word backwards

• e/E: jump to the end of the word

• ge/GE: jump to the end of the word backwards

• w/W: jump to the next word (may jump to punctuation)

• f{character}: Move to the next occurrence of a character in a line

• F{character}: Find the previous occurrence of a character (behind the cursor) in a line

• t{character}: Move just before the next occurrence of a character in a line

• T{character}: Find just before the previous occurrence of a character (behind the cursor) in a line

• ";": go to the next occurrence of the character

• ",": go to the previous occurrence of the character

• 0: Move to the first character of a line

• ^: Move to the first non-blank character of a line

• $: Move to the end of a line

• g_: Moves to the non-blank character at the end of the line

• '}': Jumps entire paragraph downwards

• '{': Jumps entire paragraph upwards

• CTRL-D : Moves down half a page

Search (can also be used with regexes)

• /{pattern}: Search forward inside a file
• ?{pattern}: Search backwards inside a file
• n: Jump to the next match
• N: Jump to the previous match

Semantic moves

• gd: Jump to the definition of what is under the cursor
• gf: Jump to a file inside an import
• CTR-O: Go back to previous cursor position

File Navigation

• gg: Go to the top of the file
• G: Go to the end of the file
• {line}gg: Go to the specific line
• %: Jump to matching ({[]})