Navigation

Move the cursor one space at a time

• h move left
• j move down
• k move up
• l move right

Jump along line

Move to specific points within a line

• w jump to start of next word
• b jump to start of word
• e jump to end of next word
• $ jumps to end of line
• 0 jumps to start of line
• ^ jumps to first character of line

Uppercase w b e consider word delimited by blank characters

Jump joined-word using W B E

Use w b e movement with a number to move the cursor larger distances

jump 3 words forward

3w

f jumps forward in the current line to the given character

jump to next q character

fq

F jumps backward in the current line to the given character

jump to previous [ character

F[

t jumps forward in the current line to before the given character

jump before q character

tq

T jumps backward in the current line to after the given character

jump after [ character

T[

Jump around buffer

• H jump to top of window
• M jump to middle of window
• L jump to bottom of window
• { jump to previous paragraph
• } jump to next paragraph
• gg jump to first character of line
• G jump to first character of line

Use cursor movement with a number to move the cursor larger distances

jump down 12 lines

12j

Relative line numbers for line navigation

Enable relative line numbers to show how far away from the current line each other line is.

set relativenumber
set number

Practicalli AstroNvim-Config enables relative line numbers

Jump to a specific line using the number as a command

jump to line number

:127

Navigate position history

++ctrl+"o" jumps to a previous postion in the cursor history

++ctrl+"i" jumps to a previous postion in the cursor history

File marks

Navigate within the current file or globally using file marks.

m followed by a lower case character creates a mark within the current file.

m followed by an upper case character creates a global mark.

` (backtick) followed by a character jumps to the mark created

Space f ' displays marks in telescope popup

File marks within file

m f creates a mark lablled f

` f jumps to the mark labelled f

Global mark to jump between source and test code

m S with the cursor in the source code file.

m T with the cursor in the test code file.

` S to jump to the source code

` T to jump to the source code

Jumplist

:jumps shows the Neovim jumplist containing all points from any buffer recently jumped to using neovim commands

• Ctrl o jump back
• Ctrl i jump forward
• ctrl and navigation key (hjkl) to move to changelist window
• q closes the jumplist buffer

Changes

:changes shows the Neovim changelist containing all points in the current buffer which have changed

• g ; jump back (previous edit)
• g . jump forward
• ctrl and navigation key (hjkl) to move to changelist window
• q closes the changelist buffer

Navigation menus

• [ ( & ] ) previous & next paren
• [ brace-left & ] brace-right previous and next square brackets
• [ g & ] g previous and next Git hunks
• [ s & ] s previous and next misspelled word

Search in buffer

/ searches buffer for the following pattern

• n jumps to next match
• N jumps to previous match

AstroNvim user config enables incsearch incremental search and hlsearch to highlight every search match

Projects

: c d followed by a path changes the root directory for Neovim.

Tab completion simplifies typing the new path of the root directory.

AstroNvim rooter

AstroNvim has a built-in project root detection utility that updates the current working directory automatically.