A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

navigation in vim

vi keybindings

Summary:
  • h - move left
  • l - move right
  • j - move down
  • k - move up
  • g, then j or k - move only one screen line (for long lines)
  • w - go forward one word
  • e - go to end of word
  • b - go to beginning of word
  • { - jump up to next blank line
  • } - jump down to next blank line
  • m? - set mark ? (where ? is a lowercase letter a-z)
  • '? - jump to mark ? (where ? is a-z) NOTE: This is a single quote mark followed by a lowercase letter