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8.2. Movement Commands
A number preceding a command repeats the movement. Movement commands are also objects for change, delete, and yank operations.
8.2.1. Character
| h, j, k, l | Left, down, up, right ( ,  ,  ,  ). |
| Spacebar | Right. |
8.2.2. Text
| w, W, b, B | Forward, backward by word. |
| e, E | End of word. |
| ), ( | Beginning of next, current sentence. |
| }, { | Beginning of next, current paragraph. |
| ]], [[ | Beginning of next, current section. |
8.2.3. Lines
| 0, $ | First, last position of current line. |
| ^ | First nonblank character of current line. |
| +, - | First character of next, previous line. |
| Return | First character of next line. |
| n| | Column n of current line. |
| H | Top line of screen. |
| M | Middle line of screen. |
| L | Last line of screen. |
| nH | n lines after top line. |
| nL | n lines before last line. |
8.2.4. Screens
CTRL-F CTRL-B |
Scroll forward, backward one screen. |
CTRL-D CTRL-U |
Scroll down, up one-half screen. |
CTRL-E CTRL-Y |
Show one more line at bottom, top of window. |
| z Return | Reposition line with cursor to top of screen. |
| z. | Reposition line with cursor to middle of screen. |
| z- | Reposition line with cursor to bottom of screen. |
| CTRL-L
CTRL-R |
Redraw screen (without scrolling). |
8.2.5. Searches
| /text | Search forward for text. |
| n | Repeat previous search. |
| N | Repeat search in opposite direction. |
| / | Repeat forward search. |
| ? | Repeat previous search backward. |
| ?text | Search backward for text. |
| /text/+n | Go to line n after text. |
| ?text?-n | Go to line n before text. |
| % | Find match of current parenthesis, brace, or bracket. |
| fx | Move search forward to x on current line. |
| Fx | Move search backward to x on current line. |
| tx | Search forward to character before x in current line. |
| Tx | Search backward to character after x in current line. |
| , | Reverse search direction of last f, F, t, or T. |
| ; | Repeat last character search (f, F, t, or T). |
8.2.6. Line Numbering
| CTRL-G | Display current line number. |
| nG | Move to line number n. |
| G | Move to last line in file. |
| :n | Move to line number n. |
8.2.7. Marking Position
| mx | Mark current position with character x. |
| ‘x | Move cursor to mark x. |
| 'x | Move to start of line containing x. |
| ‘‘ | Return to previous mark (or to location prior to a search). |
| '' | Like above, but return to start of line. |
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| 8. The vi Editor |  | 8.3. Edit Commands |
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