Vim tip 18: moving within long lines

Here are Normal mode commands you can use to move within long lines that are spread over multiple screen lines:

• g0 move to the beginning of the current screen line
• g^ move to the first non-blank character of the current screen line
• g$ move to the end of the current screen line
• gj move down by one screen line, prefix a count to move down by that many screen lines
• gk move up by one screen line, prefix a count to move up by that many screen lines
• gm move to the middle of the current screen line
  • Note that this is based on the screen width, not the number of characters in the line!
• gM move to the middle of the current line
  • Note that this is based on the total number of characters in the line

See :h left-right-motions for more details.

Video demo:

See also my Vim Reference Guide and curated list of resources for Vim.