Moving Around Quickly

Question 1

Scroll forward one screen

Answer 1

Control-F

Question 2

Scroll backward one screen

Answer 2

Control-B

Question 3

Scroll forward half screen (down)

Answer 3

Control-D

Question 4

Scroll backward half screen (up)

Answer 4

Control-U

Question 5

Move current line to top of screen and scroll

Answer 5

z (enter)

Question 6

Move current line to center of screen and scroll

Answer 6

z.

Question 7

Move current line to bottom of screen and scroll

Answer 7

z-

Question 8

Redraw the screen

Answer 8

Control-L

Question 9

Move to home, the top line on the screen

Answer 9

H

Question 10

Move to the middle line on screen

Answer 10

M

Question 11

Move to the last line on screen

Answer 11

L

Question 12

Move to n lines below top line

Answer 12

nH

Question 13

Move to n lines above last line

Answer 13

nL

Question 14

Move to the first character of next line

Answer 14

(enter) or +

Question 15

Move to the first character of previous line

Answer 15

-

Question 16

Move to the first nonblank character of current line

Question 17

Move to character n of current line

Answer 17

n|

Question 18

Move to end of word counting punctuation

Answer 18

e

Question 19

Move to end of word ignoring punctuation

Answer 19

E

Question 20

Move to beginning of current sentence

Answer 20

(

Question 21

Move to beginning of next sentence

Answer 21

)

Question 22

Move to beginning of current paragraph

Answer 22

{

Question 23

Move to beginning of next paragraph

Answer 23

}

Question 24

Move to beginning of current section

Answer 24

[[

Question 25

Move to beginning of next section

Answer 25

]]

Question 26

Move ahead 3 sentences

Answer 26

3)

Question 27

Search forward

Answer 27

/searchtext(enter)

Question 28

Search backward

Answer 28

?searchtext(enter)

Question 29

Repeat search same direction

Answer 29

n

Question 30

Repeat search opposite direction

Answer 30

N

Question 31

Repeat search forward

Answer 31

/(enter)

Question 32

Repeat search backward

Answer 32

?(enter)

Question 33

Disable search wrapping

Answer 33

:set nowrapscan

Question 34

Enable search wrapping

Answer 34

:set wrapscan

Question 35

Delete from before the cursor up to and through the word “move”

Answer 35

d?move

Question 36

Find next occurrence of x in the line, where x is a character

Answer 36

fx

Question 37

Find previous occurrence of x in the line, where x is a character

Answer 37

Fx

Question 38

Find character before next occurrence of x in the line

Answer 38

tx

Question 39

Find character after previous occurrence of x in the line.

Answer 39

Tx

Question 40

Repeat previous find command in same direction

Answer 40

;

Question 41

Repeat previous find in opposite direction

Answer 41

’ (apostrophe)

Question 42

Display current line number

Answer 42

Control-G

Question 43

Move cursor to the beginning of line 44

Answer 43

44G