How to move one word left in the vi editor

Question

I use the shortcut w to move the cursor one word right. Is there a shortcut to move a word left?

Answer 1

It's b.

You can see other motions here:

Vim documentation: motion, 4. Word motions

Generally a Vim command consists of:

count action motion

Where:

count is number of times you want it to execute. The default is 1.

action is obviously an action: d for delete, c for change, default is empty, and it means simply move.

motion is the direction. You got that already.