Vim motions

Created: 2023-02-05 20:14

Horizontal §

• f / t move to a character on the current line (forward/backward respectively)
• F / T move before a character on the current line (forward/backward respectively)
• ; / , repeat the motion (forward/backward respectively)

Vertical §

• { / } => move one paragraph up/down
• Ctrl + d / Ctrl + u jumps half a page up/down. This could be coupled with zz, which centers the view to always land in the middle of the screen
• G / gg go to the bottom/top of the file.

nnoremap("<C-d>", "<C-d>zz")
nnoremap("<C-d>", "<C-d>zz")

Search §

• / search forward
• ? search backwards
• n / N go to the next/prev result, which is inverted when searching backwards.
• * searches the word under the cursor

Searching movement can be coupled with zz to center and zv to unfold.

nnoremap("n", "nzzzv")
nnoremap("N", "Nzzzv")