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98 lines
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title: Motions
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# Vim Basic Motions
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### Cursors motions
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First in VIM we can use the arrow keys if we like to move around the text file, but it is not the best way to do so,
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and we lost the advantage of combined commands that VIM provides.
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Instead of that, the default and best way to move through the text is using the keys `h`(left), `j`(down), `k`(up) and `l`(right).
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^
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k
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<- h l ->
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j
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```
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The advantage in using these keys instead of the arrow keys is you can combine motions with other commands, like:
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- `d2j` -> delete 2 lines down
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- `y10k` -> copy 10 lines up
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- `10l` -> move 10 characters right
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- `2h` -> move 2 characters left
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### Words Motions
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A word consists of a sequence of letters, digits and underscores, or a
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sequence of other non-blank characters, separated with white space (spaces,
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tabs, end of line). An empty line is also considered to be a word.
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It is possible move through words with these commands:
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- `w` -> move to next word
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- `W` -> move to next **WORD***
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- `e` -> move to the end of the next word
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- `E` -> move to the end of the next **WORD**
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- `b` -> move to previous word
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- `B` -> move to previous **WORD**
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- `ge` -> move to the end of previous word
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- `gE` -> move to the end of previous **WORD**
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*A **WORD** consists of a sequence of non-blank characters, separated with white
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space. An empty line is also considered to be a **WORD**, ie: `quux(foo,` `bar,` `foo);`
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When these motions are combined with other commands you can do things like:
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- `dw` -> delete the word
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- `5e` -> move to the end of the 5th word from here
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### Search motions
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Another way to move to the position you like is using search motions. The search motions consist of the
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motion + a character to search
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- `fx` -> move to the next `x`
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- `tx` -> move to first position before the next `x`
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- `;` -> next x
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- `Fx` -> move to the previous `x`
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- `Tx` -> move to first position after the previous `x`
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- `,` -> previous x
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### Begin and End of lines
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You can also move to beginning or end of line with VIM, with these commands:
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- `0` -> Beginning of the line
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- `^` -> First non-blank character of the line
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- `$` -> End of the line
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### File motions
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In VIM you can move through the file using these commands:
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- `gg` -> move to the first line of the file
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- `G` -> move to the last line of the file
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- `<ctrl> + f` -> move one page down
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- `<ctrl> + b` -> move one page up
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- `/text` -> find `text`
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- `n` -> move to the next occurrence of the `text` (previous command)
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- `?text` -> find previous `text`
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- `N` -> move to the previous occurrence of `text`
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- `{` -> move one paragraph up
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- `}` -> move one paragraph down
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- `(` -> move one sentence up
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- `)` -> move one sentence down
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- `#` -> find word under cursor up
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- `*` -> find word under cursor down
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