Navigating to specific lines

We might find ourselves wanting to jump to the very top, very bottom, or to some specific line in a file. Vim provides us with some commands for doing this.

If you want to jump to the top of your file to, you can do this by typing gg in normal mode. Give it a try in the editor.

If you want to jump to the bottom of your file, you can do this by typing G in normal mode. Try this in the editor.

Other times, you either know exactly which line you want to jump to or you can visually see it on screen. For example: most compilers will tell you which line an error is on if your build fails. With Vim, you can jump directly to the line of interest — say line 10 — by hitting 10G in normal mode.