move one character
h → left j → top k → bottom l → right
j -- up
h l -- left right
k -- down
move one word
w → right
e.g., function hello() → function hello()
w → beginning of next word b → beginning of previous word
e → end of next word ge → end of previous word
what is a word in vim? → any sequence of letters, numbers or digits OR any sequence of special non-blank characters. → e.g. “hello”, ”(((”, etc. → e.g. “hello()” - 2 words.
NOTE: vim has two different types of words → 1. word and 2. WORD
WORD in vim includes some special characters too.
hello_world(){}
---
words: hello_world, (){}
WORDS: hello_world(){}
To navigate WORDS, we use capital letters, W, E, GE.
find a character
f{character} → jumps to the next occurrence of the character in the line F{character} → jumps to the previous occurrence of the character in the line
e.g. fa → next occurrence of a.
F (< left) f (right >) -- move to next occurence
t{ch} / T{ch} → does the same thing but puts the cursor before the character.
v
fa --> function cat() {} -- cursor at character
v
ta --> function cat() {} -- cursor before character
mnemonic: f is find and t is until.
summary:
- f {ch} → next occ of charecter
- ; → move to the next occ of the same character
- , → move to the prev occ of the same character
e.g. fd;; will do the same thing as fdfdfd