How to move screen without moving cursor in Vim

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I recently discovered Ctrl E and Ctrl Y shortcuts for Vim that respectively move the screen up and down with a one line step  without moving the cursor   Do you know any command that leaves the cursor where it is but moves the screen so that the line which has the cursor becomes the first line   having a command for the last line would be a nice bonus    I can achieve this by manually pressing Ctrl E  or Ctrl Y  the proper number of times  but having a command that somehow does this directly would be nice   Any ideas

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zz - move current line to the middle of the screen  Careful with zz  if you happen to have Caps Lock on accidentally  you will save and exit vim   zt - move current line to the top of the screen  zb - move current line to the bottom of the screen

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You may find answers to  Scrolling Vim relative to cursor  custom mapping  useful    You can use ScrollToPercent 0  from that question to do this

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Enter vim and type    help z  z is the vim command for redraw  so it will redraw the file relative to where you position the cursor  The options you have are as follows   z  - Redraws the file with the cursor at top of the window and at first non-blank character of your line   z- - Redraws the file with the cursor at bottom of the window and at first non-blank character of your line   z  - Redraws the file with the cursor at centre of the window and at first non-blank character of your line   zt - Redraws file with the cursor at top of the window   zb - Redraws file with the cursor at bottom of the window   zz - Redraws file with the cursor at centre of the window

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I wrote a plugin which enables me to navigate the file without moving the cursor position  It s based on folding the lines between your position and your target position and then jumping over the fold  or abort it and don t move at all   It s also easy to fast-switch between the cursor on the first line  the last line and cursor in the middle by just clicking j  k or l when you are in the mode of the plugin   I guess it would be a good fit here

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You can prefix your cursor move commands with a number and that will repeat that command that many times  10Ctrl E will do Ctrl E 10 times instead of one

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I m surprised no one is using the Scrolloff option which keeps the cursor in the middle of the page  Try it with    set so 999   It s the first recommended method on the Vim wiki and works well

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my mnemonic for scrolling     Adding to other answers also pay attention to ze and zs  meaning  move screen to the left right of the cursor  without moving the cursor    -------------------------------                                     c-e  keep cursor                  H igh              zt  top                                                     ze             zs      M iddle   zh zH  lt --zz-- gt  zl zL                                                         v              L ow               zb  bottom     c-y  keep cursor                 v                                  -------------------------------    also look at the position of h and l and t and b and  with qwertz keyboard  c-e and c-y  also the  y  somehow points to the bottom  on the keyboard to remember where the screen is moving

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Here s my solution in vimrc    keep cursor in the middle all the time    nnoremap k kzz nnoremap j jzz nnoremap p pzz nnoremap P Pzz nnoremap G Gzz nnoremap x xzz inoremap  lt ESC gt   lt ESC gt zz nnoremap  lt ENTER gt   lt ENTER gt zz inoremap  lt ENTER gt   lt ENTER gt  lt ESC gt zzi nnoremap o o lt ESC gt zza nnoremap O O lt ESC gt zza nnoremap a a lt ESC gt zza   So that the cursor will stay in the middle of the screen  and the screen will move up or down

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Additionally    Ctrl-y Moves screen up one line Ctrl-e Moves screen down one line Ctrl-u Moves cursor  amp  screen up    page Ctrl-d Moves cursor  amp  screen down    page Ctrl-b Moves screen up one page  cursor to last line Ctrl-f Moves screen down one page  cursor to first line   Ctrl-y and Ctrl-e only change the cursor position if it would be moved off screen   Courtesy of http   www lagmonster org docs vi2 html

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I ve used these shortcuts in the past  note  separate key strokes i e  tap z  let go  tap the subsequent key    z  enter   --   moves current line to top of screen  z     --   moves current line to center of screen  z  -   --   moves current line to bottom  If it s not obvious   enter means the Return or Enter key     means the DOT or  full stop  key       - means the HYPHEN key  -   For what it s worth  z  avoids the danger of saving and closing Vi by accidentally typing ZZ if the caps-lock is on

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Sometimes it is useful to scroll the text with the K and J keys  so I have this  quot scroll mode quot  function in my  vimrc  also bound to zs   See scroll mode vim

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Vim requires the cursor to be in the current screen at all times  however  you could bookmark the current position scroll around and then return to where you were   mg    This book marks the current position as g  this can be any letter   lt scroll around gt   g    return to g

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zEnter does exactly what this question asks for   It works where strangely zz would not work  vim 7 4 1689 on Ubuntu 2016 04 LTS with no special  vimrc

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To leave the cursor in the same column when you use Ctrl D  Ctrl F  Ctrl B  Ctrl U  G  H  M  L  gg  you should define the following option    set nostartofline

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