1. Suppose we have a line of text consisting of the following, and
we are in vi command mode, and current cursor location is noted as ^
Each of the vi navigation or changes to input mode are shown numerically
(see table below) and the cursor moves to that location:
3 16
line before: zzzz zzzzzz
2 13 14 15
text line: zzzzzz zzz zzzzzz zzz zzzzzz zzzzz zzzzzzzzz
1 5 6 7^8 9 10 11 12
line after: z zzz zz zzzz
4 17
Action Result
------ ------
1 type ^ or 0 Cursor moves to 1st
character of current line
2 type I and change to input mode Cursor moves to 1st
character of current line
and mode changes to input
3. type - Cursor moves to 1st
character of previous line
4. type + or Enter Cursor moves to 1st
character of next line
5. type 2b Cursor moves to the left
to the 1st character of the
word, twice
6. type b Cursor moves to the left
to the 1st character of the
word
7. type h or backspace Cursor moves to the left
1 character
8. type l or spacebar Cursor moves to the right
1 character
9. type e Cursor moves to the right
to the last character of the
word
10. type w Cursor moves to the right
to the 1st character of the
next word
11. type 2w Cursor moves to the right
to the 1st character of the
next word, twice
12. type $ Cursor moves to the right
to the last character on the line
13. type i Cursor moves to the left
1 character and mode
changes to input
14. type a Cursor moves to the right
1 character and mode
changes to input
15. type A Cursor moves to the right
to the last character on the
line and mode changes to
input
16. type k Cursor moves up to
previous line same column
position or if line shorter
to last character on previous
line
17. type j Cursor moves down to
next line same column
position or if line shorter
to last character on next
line
Questions? Robert Katz: arkay@arkaye.org Last Update July 5, 2015