In Vim/Vi, how do you move the cursor to the end of the previous word?

Question

In Vim\'s normal mode:

• e goes to the end of the next word
• w goes to the beginning of the next word
• b goes to the

Answer 1

You may also want to do these to go to the space preceding a word (one character after ge: (both are only 2 keys)

1. FSpace will take you to the space after the previous word
2. Bh will also do that, in most cases.

The exception is when you are at the beginning of a line, in which case

3. k$ does something similar, in 3 keypresses