Navigating in Vim

Intro to basic Vim movements

• Vim Alphabet • Michael Chan 📺
• Vim As Your Editor • ThePrimeagen 📺
• Vim Beginners Guide • LearnLinuxTV 📺
• Learning Vim in a Week • Mike Coutermarsh 📺
• Vim playlist • The Frugal Computer Guy 📺

Navigating within the same file

Moving the cursor

• Vim motions: {count}{motion}
• horizontally: l, h, w, b, W, B, $, ^, 0
• vertically: k, j, {, }, …
• to a line: gg, G, {line number}gg, {line number}G, :{line number}
• to a character on the same line: f{char}, F{char}, t{char}, T{char}, ”;”, ”,”
• o = in visual mode, jump to other end of selection (to adjust where it starts or ends)

Moving the scroll position

• cursor vertically centered: zz
• move cursor within current scroll position: H, M, L
• scroll down/up: c-d, c-u

Navigating to a different file

• Moving to the relevant definition: gd, …
• Retracing your steps: c-o, c-i
• Using Telescope
• Using Netrw:
  • Vim (31) netrw pt1 - Intro to netrw • The Frugal Computer Guy 📺
  • Vim (32) netrw pt2 • The Frugal Computer Guy 📺
  • Vim (33) NetRW copyVimrc • The Frugal Computer Guy 📺
  • Vim (34) Netrw Fix Fuzzy Find • The Frugal Computer Guy 📺
• Using fzf
• Using a file tree
• Vim File Navigation • ThePrimeagen 📺

Navigating to a different window

• arranging windows: c-w s, c-w v, c-w q, c-w c, c-w o, c-w r, c-w x, c-w =, c-w _
• jumping between windows: c-w w, c-w h, c-w j, c-w k, c-w l

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