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Screen movement - vi Tutorial

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Screen movement

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- [Instructor] Let's open sherlock.txt, vim sherlock.txt. If you'd like to move to the end of the file, you can use uppercase G, shift + G. To move to the beginning of the file, hit lowercase G twice, gg. In other cases, you'd like to quickly scan the text. Don't move your hands to the page up, page down keys. Leave them at the typing position and type control + F. This will move a page forward and will keep the last line from the previous page visible for context. Since F is for forward, how can we move backward half a page? You guessed it, control + B. Using uppercase G, gg, control + F, and control + B, you can quickly navigate in the text.

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