{"id":35,"date":"2003-08-20T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/08\/20\/vim-cursor-movement\/"},"modified":"2003-08-20T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2003-08-20T15:11:36","slug":"vim-cursor-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/08\/20\/vim-cursor-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Vim Cursor Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a47'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the obscurity and gradualness of vim &#8211; I&#8217;m still finding really basic new tricks after three years of using it pretty exclusively.  I suppose it&#8217;s the same with any text editor; this must be why people get religious about them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m constantly searching off to somewhere in a program to check the order variables go in or something.  But then, how do I easily get my cursor back exactly where it was before?  I now know it&#8217;s by hitting &#8220; (backtick backtick).  Another useful thing I learned today was *.  It&#8217;s the opposite of #, which I already knew.  And then there&#8217;s slash, crtl-r, ctrl-w.  Useful stuff.  Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/tips\/tip_search_results.php?keywords=&amp;order_by=creation_date&amp;direction=ascending&amp;search=search\">forum<\/a> full of vim geeks showing off their mystical incantations.  It&#8217;s neat how excited people get: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that is definitely a life changing tip.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Damn, this saves me about 1000 keystrokes a day.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This is really great. I feel I&#8217;ve entered into a new world of VIm &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the obscurity and gradualness of vim &#8211; I&#8217;m still finding really basic new tricks after three years of using it pretty exclusively. I suppose it&#8217;s the same with any text editor; this must be why people get religious about them. I&#8217;m constantly searching off to somewhere in a program to check the order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}