| Command | BVI | VI |
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Cursor
movements |
| h, ARROW_LEFT |
move cursor one character to the left |
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| j, +, ^N, ^J, ARROW_DOWN,
RETURN
| move cursor down one line |
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| k, -, ARROW_UP |
move cursor up one line |
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| l, ARROW_RIGHT,
SPACE
| move cursor one character to the right |
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| H | move cursor to home position, upper left corner of screen |
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| M | move cursor to the begin of the middle line of the screen |
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| L | move cursor to the begin of the last line of the screen |
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Move to
begin
and end of
(screen) line |
| ^ | move cursor to the first byte of Hex section |
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| $ | move cursor to the last byte of Ascii section |
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| TAB | toggle cursor between the same byte in Hex and Ascii section |
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|
| ^ |
move cursor to the first nonblank character of line |
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| $ | move cursor to end of line |
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| 0 | move cursor to the real begin of line |
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Move
by
words |
| w |
forward to next string delimited with a nonprinting char |
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| b |
back to previous string delimited with a nonprinting char |
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| e |
end of current word |
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| W |
forward to next string delimited with a \0 or \n |
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| B |
back to previous string delimited with a nonprinting char |
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|
| w |
move cursor forward to begin of next word |
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| e |
move cursor to end of current word |
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| b |
move cursor back to begin of current or previous word |
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| W |
move cursor forward to begin of next word, ignoring punctuation |
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| B |
move cursor back to begin of last word, ignoring punctuation |
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