2.7 Motion Commands
Commands for moving around in the current buffer are collected here. These
commands are used as an `argument' for the delete, change and yank commands
to be described in the next section.
- h
- Move point backward by one character. Signal error if point is at the
beginning of buffer, but (unlike Vi) do not complain otherwise
(
vip-backward-char).
- l
- Move point backward by one character. Signal error if point is at the
end of buffer, but (unlike Vi) do not complain otherwise
(
vip-forward-char).
- j
- Move point to the next line keeping the current column. If point is on the
last line of the buffer, a new line will be created and point will move to
that line (
vip-next-line).
- k
- Move point to the previous line keeping the current column
(
vip-next-line).
- +
- Move point to the next line at the first non-white character. If point is
on the last line of the buffer, a new line will be created and point will
move to the beginning of that line (
vip-next-line-at-bol).
- -
- Move point to the previous line at the first non-white character
(
vip-previous-line-at-bol).
If a count is given to these commands, the commands will be repeated that
many times.
- 0
- Move point to the beginning of line (
vip-beginning-of-line).
- ^
- Move point to the first non-white character on the line
(
vip-bol-and-skip-white).
- $
- Move point to the end of line (
vip-goto-eol).
- n |
- Move point to the n-th column on the line (
vip-goto-col).
Except for the | command, these commands neglect a count.
- w
- Move point forward to the beginning of the next word
(
vip-forward-word).
- W
- Move point forward to the beginning of the next word, where a word is
considered as a sequence of non-white characters (
vip-forward-Word).
- b
- Move point backward to the beginning of a word (
vip-backward-word).
- B
- Move point backward to the beginning of a word, where a word is
considered as a sequence of non-white characters (
vip-forward-Word).
- e
- Move point forward to the end of a word (
vip-end-of-word).
- E
- Move point forward to the end of a word, where a word is
considered as a sequence of non-white characters (
vip-end-of-Word).
Here the meaning of the word `word' for the w, b and e
commands is determined by the syntax table effective in the current
buffer. Each major mode has its syntax mode, and therefore the meaning of
a word also changes as the major mode changes. See GNU Emacs Manual for
details of syntax table.
- H
- Move point to the beginning of the home (top) line of the window.
Given a count n, go to the n-th line from top
(
vip-window-top).
- M
- Move point to the beginning of the middle line of the window. Given
a count n, go to the n-th line from the middle line
(
vip-window-middle).
- L
- Move point to the beginning of the lowest (bottom) line of the
window. Given count, go to the n-th line from bottom
(
vip-window-bottom).
These commands can be used to go to the desired line visible on the screen.
- (
- Move point backward to the beginning of the sentence
(
vip-backward-sentence).
- )
- Move point forward to the end of the sentence
(
vip-forward-sentence).
- {
- Move point backward to the beginning of the paragraph
(
vip-backward-paragraph).
- }
- Move point forward to the end of the paragraph
(
vip-forward-paragraph).
A count repeats the effect for these commands.
- G
- Given a count n, move point to the n-th line in the buffer on
the first non-white character. Without a count, go to the end of the buffer
(
vip-goto-line).
- ` `
- Exchange point and mark (
vip-goto-mark).
- ` ch
- Move point to the position stored in the register ch. ch must
be a lower-case letter.
- ' '
- Exchange point and mark, and then move point to the first non-white
character on the line (
vip-goto-mark-and-skip-white).
- ' ch
- Move point to the position stored in the register ch and skip to the
first non-white character on the line. ch must be a lower-case letter.
- %
- Move point to the matching parenthesis if point is looking at (,
), {, }, [ or ]
(vip-paren-match).
The command G mark point before move, so that you can return to the
original point by ` `. The original point will also be stored in
the mark ring.
The following commands are useful for moving points on the line. A count
will repeat the effect.
- f ch
- Move point forward to the character ch on the line. Signal error if
ch could not be found (
vip-find-char-forward).
- F ch
- Move point backward to the character ch on the line. Signal error if
ch could not be found (
vip-find-char-backward).
- t ch
- Move point forward upto the character ch on the line. Signal error if
ch could not be found (
vip-goto-char-forward).
- T ch
- Move point backward upto the character ch on the line. Signal error if
ch could not be found (
vip-goto-char-backward).
- ;
- Repeat previous f, t, F or T command
(
vip-repeat-find).
- ,
- Repeat previous f, t, F or T command, in the
opposite direction (
vip-repeat-find-opposite).