Neovim for Beginners — Motion
Learn the different types of motions, and the plugins to improve them.
The support of different types of motions in Neovim is one of its key strengths. We are going to
- Learn the different types of motions.
- Check out Vim tutor to learn the different types of motions.
- Explore plugins to improve the different types of motions.
This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.
The Neovim configuration files can be found in this repository.
Types of Motions
Let’s check out the different types of motions
Jump Motions
A jump (:h jump-motions) is a command that normally moves the cursor several lines away.
Jumps are remembered in a jump list. With the CTRL-O and CTRL-I commands we can go to cursor positions before older jumps, and back again. There is a separate jump list for each window.
The jump commands include `, ‘, G, /, ?, n, N, %, (, ), [[, ]], {, }, :s, :tag, L, M, H, and the commands that start editing a new file.
:ju,:jumps— Print the jump list.:cle,:clearjumps— Clear the jump list of…
