Move cursor to end of file in vim

Question

When I want the cursor to go to the end of the file  i e  the end of the last line  in Vim  I have to type six keystrokes    lt ESC gt G a - which translates to ESC   Shiftg   Shift4   a on my keyboard layout    How can I do this more efficiently   Since I regularly work on many different machines  I cannot always change  vimrc  so I m looking for answers without having to edit or create that file

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No need to explicitly go to the end of line before doing a  use A  Append text at the end of line  count  times   lt ESC gt GA

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Another alternative     call cursor     strwidth getline          This is may be useful if you re writing a function   Another situation would be when I need to open a specific template and jump to end of first line  I can do   vi   call cursor     strwidth getline 1      notetaking template txt   The above could also be done with  vi   execute   normal      notetaking template txt   See also   vim - Get length of the current line

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This is quicker  Just use this

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Hit Esc and then press  Shift   G

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Go to Top     - Double g  Go to Bottom  - Shift   g

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If you want to paste some clipboard content at the end of the file type      put                   last line put            paste                 clipboard

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I have been looking for the way to move the cursor to the end of a line and then edit on a mac terminal  here was how it worked for me  Exit your edit mode  type in g  that s  g  then underscore with no colon in the front   then simply press the  a  key so you could  add  code to your scripts

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Ctrl   Home   Jump to start of file Ctrl   End   Jump to end of file

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If you plan to write the next line  ESCGo will do the carriage return and put you in insert mode on the next line  at the end of the file   saving a couple more keystrokes

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The best way to go to the last line of the file is with G  This will move the cursor to the last line of the file   The best way to go to the last column in the line is with    This will move the cursor to the last column of the current line   So just by doing G  you get to the end of the file and the last line   And if you want to enter insert mode at the end of the file then you just do GA  By doing this you go to the last line of the file  and enter insert mode by appending to the last column

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Try doing SHIFT   G and you will be at the end of the page  but you can t edit yet  Go to the top by doing G   G

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You could map it to a key  for instance F3  in  vimrc  inoremap  lt F3 gt   lt Esc gt GA

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I thought the question was  Move cursor to end of file in vim     End-of-file   Esc   G Begin-of-file Esc   g  or gg if you are already in the command area

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For starters  there s no need for the return  G  will do  And you re being misleading by counting  lt Esc gt  and a in the length of a normal mode command   However  you can use Ctrl   End if you like

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This is quicker    lt ESC gt GA

[vim] Move cursor to end of file in vim

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