scroll down without moving cursor to the bottom of the screen
GlideKensington
I don't know the exact term that this function is called so I haven't been
able to search it anywhere but...
how do you keep your cursor where you're at while scrolling down the
document so you don't have to scroll your cursor to the very of bottom of
the document to keep scrolling down.
Thanks in advance!
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Michael Dunn
> document so you don't have to scroll your cursor to the very of bottom of
> the document to keep scrolling down.
ctrl-e and ctrl-y do what you want (scrolling one line at a time). See
:help scrolling
There is also ctrl-u/ctrl-d (scrolls half a screen at a time) and
ctrl-f/ctrl-b (scroll by full screen).
Cheers, Michael
Tim Chase
> down the document so you don't have to scroll your cursor to
> the very of bottom of the document to keep scrolling down.
Vim requires that the cursor be within the view window at all
times. However, you can use marks to book-mark your current
location and then navigate wherever you want, then use the
backtick to return to where you were.
mg (drop mark "g" at the current location)
[navigate around a bit]
`g (return to where we dropped mark "g")
Additionally, if you were previously in insert mode, but need to
navigate somewhere to look up some information, you can hit <esc>
to get into normal mode, navigate around a bit, and then use
gi
to resume insertion where you left off.
:help mark
:help `
:help :marks
:help gi
-tim
GlideKensington
Thanks Michael! That was exactly what I was looking for!
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