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ClosureCowboy
ClosureCowboy

Reputation: 21521

In Vim/Vi, how do you move the cursor to the end of the previous word?

In Vim's normal mode:

How do you move the cursor to the end of the previous word?

Upvotes: 231

Views: 59047

Answers (4)

Nathan majicvr.com
Nathan majicvr.com

Reputation: 1031

You may also want to do these to go to the space preceding a word (one character after ge: (both are only 2 keys)

  1. FSpace will take you to the space after the previous word
  2. Bh will also do that, in most cases.

The exception is when you are at the beginning of a line, in which case

  1. k$ does something similar, in 3 keypresses

Upvotes: 5

Eduardo Costa
Eduardo Costa

Reputation: 1994

as seen on VIM manual (section 03.1), you can use ge to go to the end of previous word

Upvotes: 36

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 1037

Try ge:

ge                      Backward to the end of word [count] |inclusive|.

                                                        *gE*
gE                      Backward to the end of WORD [count] |inclusive|.

Upvotes: 64

jkerian
jkerian

Reputation: 17016

Unfortunately it's not a single key... but ge is what you're looking for, I think.

Upvotes: 318

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