Vim: Scroll up/down, keeping your cursor in its row

Updated 2012-07-15. Posted 2011-07-26. Visible to the public. Linked content.

If you are in the middle of a file and want to scroll, but don't want to move your cursor all the way to the top row, use this:

One line

Ctrl+Y → Move viewport down
Ctrl+E → Move viewport up (Extra lines)

Half a screen

Ctrl+U → Move viewport Up
Ctrl+D → Move viewport Down

Those are the default key bindings, they may be different for other layouts/behaviors (like mswin).

Read everything about scrolling in vim in the linked vimdoc Show archive.org snapshot .

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