03-faster_movement.md

Commands for Faster Movement

We already know how to navigate the document using the h, j, k, and l keys, but what if we wanted to navigate faster?

• The w key allows you to go one word forward.
• The b key allows you to go one word backward.
• The W key allows you to go to the next string separated by a “ ”. The same goes with the B key.
• The ^ key takes you to the beginning of the line.
• The $ key takes you to the end of the line.
• gg goes straight to the beginning of the file.
• G goes to the end of the file.
• { and } can be used to move between paragraphs at a time.
• f followed by a value will find the first occurance of that value following it in the line.
• F followed by a value will find the last occurance of that value in the line.
• t followed by a value will find the first occurance of that value following it in the line, and put the cursor one character before it.
• T followed by a value will find the last occurance of that value in the line, and will put the cursor one character before it.

Repeater

The repeater allows for faster movement in Vim, and can be applied to most commands. You can prepend a number to a command to a vim command to specify how many times you want to run it. For example, you can use 4w to go four words forward.