vi, go to end of buffer

Dale Farnsworth dale at farnsworth.org
Tue Aug 30 09:46:21 MST 2005


On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:52:29PM +0000, Eric Shubes wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >dunno - but that would be another reason to use Emacs.
> >
> >I was forced to use vi to edit 4 equal splits of an mbox file that
> >exceeded 2 Gb I did find a simple way to get to the end of the file to
> >edit the bottom...hold the page down button and switch the kvm to
> >another computer...let go of page down key and switch back, wait an hour
> >and vi would reach the bottom of the file as long as I didn't touch the
> >keyboard again. Felt like catching flies with chopsticks. I never did
> >find a vi shortcut for 'go to end of buffer' - How could a text editing
> >program as mature as vi not have facility to 'go to end of buffer' ?
> >
> >Miyagi
> >
> It does. Try :$

Or instead, try: G

-Dale


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