Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

Review of vi Motion Commands

Table 3-1 summarizes the commands covered in this chapter.

Table 3-1. Movement commands

Movement	Command
Scroll forward one screen	^F
Scroll backward one screen	^B
Scroll forward half screen	^D
Scroll backward half screen	^U
Scroll forward one line	^E
Scroll backward one line	^Y
Move current line to top of screen and scroll	z ENTER
Move current line to center of screen and scroll	z.
Move current line to bottom of screen and scroll	z-
Redraw the screen	^L
Move to home—the top line of screen	H
Move to middle line of screen	M
Move to bottom line of screen	L
Move to first character of next line	ENTER
Move to first character of next line	+
Move to first character of previous line	-
Move to first nonblank character of current line	^
Move to column n of current line	n |
Move to end of word	e
Move to end of word (ignore punctuation)	E
Move to beginning of current sentence	(
Move to beginning of next sentence	)
Move to beginning of current paragraph	{
Move to beginning of next paragraph	}
Move to beginning of current section	[[
Move to beginning of next section	]]
Search forward for pattern	/ pattern
Search backward for pattern	? pattern
Repeat last search	n
Repeat last search in opposite direction	N
Repeat last search forward	/
Repeat last search backward	?
Move to next occurrence of x in current line	f x
Move to previous occurrence of x in current line	F x
Move to just before next occurrence of x in current line	t x
Move to just after previous occurrence of x in current line	T x
Repeat previous ...