MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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e moves the cursor forward to the end of the current word. If the cursor is already at
the end of a word, vi moves it to the last character of the next word.
Fc searches backward in the line for the single character c and positions the cursor on
top of it. When count is given, the editor searches back for the countth such charac-
ter.
fc searches forward in the line for the single character c and positions the cursor on top
of it. When count is given, the editor searches for the countth such character.
H places the cursor on the first non-blank character of the top line of the screen. count
specifies the number of lines from the top of the screen.
L places the cursor on the first non-blank character of the bottom line of the screen.
count specifies the number of lines up from the bottom of the screen.
M places the cursor on the first non-blank character of the middle line of the screen.
N repeats previous / or ? command, but in the opposite direction.
n repeats previous / or ? command.
Tc searches backward in the line for the character c and positions the cursor after the
character being sought. count searches backward for the countth matching character
and then positions the cursor after the character being sought.
tc searches forward in the line for the character c and positions the cursor on the pre-
ceding character. count searches forward for the countth matching character and po-
sitions the cursor on the preceding character.
W moves to the start of the next full word.
w moves to the start of the next word.
( moves back to the beginning of the current sentence. A sentence is bounded by a pe-
riod (.), exclamation mark (!), or question mark (?); followed by any number of
closing double quotes, ("), closing single quotes (’), closing parentheses ()), or clos-
ing square brackets (]); followed by two spaces or the end of the line. Paragraph and
section boundaries are also sentence boundaries; see [[ and {.
) moves to the beginning of the next sentence. See ( for the definition of a sentence.
{ moves back to the beginning of a paragraph. A paragraph begins on a blank line, a
section boundary (see [[) or a text formatter macro in the paragraphs variable.
} moves to the beginning of the next paragraph. See { for the definition of a paragraph.
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