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title: Navigation
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## Vim Navigation
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### Basic movement
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There are many ways to move the cursor in Vim, but these basic movements will allow
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new users to get comfortable using normal mode for file navigation.
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* In normal mode, the keys `h`, `j`, `k` , `l` correspond to moving the cursor
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one character left, down, up, and right, respectively.
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* To navigate one word at a time, the keys `w`, and `b` will move the cursor to
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the beginning of the next word, or the beginning of the previous word. The `e`
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key will move the cursor to the end of the current word.
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* To move to the beginning of the current line, type `0`, and to move to the end
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of the current line, type `$`.
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* Finally, to move to the first line in the file, type `gg`, and to move to the
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last line in the file, type `G`.
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In summary:
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```vim
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h moves one character left
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j moves one row down
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k moves one row up
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l moves one character right
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w moves to the beginning of the next word
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b moves to the beginning of the previous word
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e moves to the end of the current word
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0 moves to the beginning of the current line
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$ moves to the end of the current line
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:n moves to line n (ex. :23 moves to line 23) can also use nG
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^ moves to the first non blank character of the line.
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ZZ moves to the center of the line you are on
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H moves to the top of the screen
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M moves to the middle of the screen
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L moves to the bottom of the screen
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gg moves to the first line in the file
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G moves to the last line in the file
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```
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