vim tips, goto line

February 10th, 2007 mysurface Posted in Misc, Text Manipulation, vi, vim | Hits: 35050 | 3 Comments »

If you have search for vim tips at here, you may remember to go to the desire line while opening file with vim is like this

vim hello.c +12

And while edit with vim, to move to desire line, type the line number and press shift g or G. With the search forward and backward tips examples shows here.

Yesterday, I accidentally discover that to move to a desire line while edit with vim, can be done by this

:12

As I press escape and colon more often than pressing shift g, goto a line with :<line number&mt; is more comfortable for me.

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3 Responses to “vim tips, goto line”

  1. abc def Says:
    July 4th, 2007 at 3:40 am

    12gg works well too.

  2. Tom Taylor Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 11:52 am

    Yes it works, good tip

  3. David Says:
    November 19th, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    12% works for relative goto percentage (start typing 12 and press % and will be automatically positioned at 12%)

    useful for large logs

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