How to move one word left in vi editor

Question

I use shortcut w to move the cursor one word right, is there any shortcut to move a word left?

Answer 1

use b to move back one word

use w to move forward one word

and here is a cheat sheet that might be useful for you

Source: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

Answer 2

It's b.

You can see other motions here:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html#word-motions

Generally a Vim command is consisted of

count action motion

Where:

count is number of times you want it to execute, 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

Answer 3

In addition to the b movement mentionned in the other answers, another movement which may be interesting is ge.

It brings you to the last letter of the word on the left. When b is considered as the opposite of w, ge can be considered as the opposite of e which brings you to the end of the current word.

Also note that all of those word-wise movement have a WORD-wise equivalent: W, B, E and gE which are "faster". For the difference between words and WORDS see: :h word.

Answer 4

yes, you can use "b" to backforward a word, and in advance, "2b" to move back 2 words

Answer 5

As the title asks, you want to move left (back). b does it.