*usr_03.txt*	Nvim

		     VIM USER MANUAL - by Bram Moolenaar

			     Moving around


Before you can insert or delete text the cursor has to be moved to the right
place.  Vim has a large number of commands to position the cursor.  This
chapter shows you how to use the most important ones.  You can find a list of
these commands below |Q_lr|.

|03.1|	Word movement
|03.2|	Moving to the start or end of a line
|03.3|	Moving to a character
|03.4|	Matching a parenthesis
|03.5|	Moving to a specific line
|03.6|	Telling where you are
|03.7|	Scrolling around
|03.8|	Simple searches
|03.9|	Simple search patterns
|03.10|	Using marks

     Next chapter: |usr_04.txt|  Making small changes
 Previous chapter: |usr_02.txt|  The first steps in Vim
Table of contents: |usr_toc.txt|

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*03.1*	Word movement

To move the cursor forward one word, use the "w" command.  Like most Vim
commands, you can use a numeric prefix to move past multiple words.  For
example, "3w" moves three words.  This figure shows how it works (starting at
the position marked with "x"):

	This is a line with example text ~
	  x-->-->->----------------->
	   w  w  w    3w

Notice that "w" moves to the start of the next word if it already is at the
start of a word.
   The "b" command moves backward to the start of the previous word:

	This is a line with example text ~
	<----<--<-<---------<--x
	   b   b b    2b      b

There is also the "e" command that moves to the next end of a word and "ge",
which moves to the previous end of a word:

	This is a line with example text ~
	   <----<----x---->------------>
	   2ge   ge     e       2e

If you are at the last word of a line, the "w" command will take you to the
first word in the next line.  Thus you can use this to move through a
paragraph, much faster than using "l".  "b" does the same in the other
direction.

A word ends at a non-word character, such as a ".", "-" or ")".  To change
what Vim considers to be a word, see the 'iskeyword' option.  If you try this
out in the help directly, 'iskeyword' needs to be reset for the examples to
work: >
	:set iskeyword&
It is also possible to move by white-space separated WORDs.  This is not a
word in the normal sense, that's why the uppercase is used.  The commands for
moving by WORDs are also uppercase, as this figure shows:

	       ge      b	  w				e
	       <-     <-	 --->			       --->
	This is-a line, with special/separated/words (and some more). ~
	   <----- <-----	 -------------------->	       ----->
	     gE      B			 W			 E

With this mix of lowercase and uppercase commands, you can quickly move
forward and backward through a paragraph.

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*03.2*	Moving to the start or end of a line

The "$" command moves the cursor to the end of a line.  If your keyboard has
an <End> key it will do the same thing.

The "^" command moves to the first non-blank character of the line.  The "0"
command (zero) moves to the very first character of the line, and the <Home>
key does the same thing.  In a picture ("." indicates a space):

		  ^
	     <-----------x
	.....This is a line with example text ~
	<----------------x   x-------------->
		0		   $

(the "....." indicates blanks here)

   The "$" command takes a count, like most movement commands.  But moving to
the end of the line several times doesn't make sense.  Therefore it causes the
editor to move to the end of another line.  For example, "1$" moves you to
the end of the first line (the one you're on), "2$" to the end of the next
line, and so on.
   The "0" command doesn't take a count argument, because the "0" would be
part of the count.  Unexpectedly, using a count with "^" doesn't have any
effect.

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*03.3*	Moving to a character

One of the most useful movement commands is the single-character search
command.  The