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

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 .