Cursor Positioning
While in command mode you can position the cursor over any character on
the screen. You can also display a different portion of the
work buffer
on the screen. You can move the cursor through the text by any Unit of
Measure (i.e., character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, or screen).
To move the cursor, just type the letter of the unit of measure. For
example, to move ahead one word, type [w].
- [l], [SPACE BAR], [RIGHT-ARROW]
- one character to the right
- [h], [LEFT-ARROW]
- one character to the left
- [w], [b]
- one word forward or backward (Punctuation counts as a word.)
- [W], [B]
- one "blank-delimited" word forward or backward
- [j], [DOWN-ARROW]
- one line down
- [k], [UP-ARROW]
- one line up
- [ ) ]
- beginning of next sentence
- [ ( ]
- beginning of sentence
- [ } ]
- beginning of next section
- [ { ]
- beginning of section
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