Moving the cursor around in the vi text editor

Moving the cursor around in the vi text editor

Note: so far, this is an incomplete list, and I'm experimenting with the way of presenting the keystrokes - the keys to press are specified in superscript text. Hopefully it's not too hard to work out.

There’s the usual options

• left^h or right^l, up^k or down^j
  
• start/end of: ⁰line^$, ^{paragraph^} or ^[[document^]]

But also more powerful control

• start/end of: ^bprevious-word^ge or ^wnext-word^e
  where a ‘word’ is anything delimited by non alphanumeric chars.
  There’s a parallel set of commands for which a ‘words’ delimited
  by whitespace:
  • start/end of ^Bprevious-word^E or ^Wnext-word^E
• first non-whitespace char^{^} on line
  
• end of the nth line down^n$ from the current one
  
• next^f<char> or previous^F<char> occurrence of char on the line
  • or the character before the next^t<char> or previous^T<char> occurrence
    
  • the nth next occurrence of char on the line^nf<char>