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Mission 10 / 52• Essential Motions

Moving to Line Ends

Indentation is common in programming, meaning the start of a line often contains leading spaces or tabs.

Vim distinguishes between column 0 (the absolute beginning of the line) and the first non-blank character of code.

Line boundary motions

  • 0move to the very first column of the line (column 0)
  • _move to the first non-blank character (start of actual code)
  • $move to the last character of the line
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    const indentedStatement = parseCode(source);
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        return result.data.items[0];
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}

Place cursor on the indented line and press `0`. You land on the left margin. Press `_` to jump right to the `c` in `const`. Press `$` to jump straight to the semicolon.

Now it's your turn!

  1. Navigate to each green target across the code snippet.
  2. Use the motions and techniques learned in this lesson to land accurately on each target.
  3. See how fast you can complete 10 targets.
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    const indentedStatement = parseCode(source);
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        return result.data.items[0];
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}
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