Hi there,

Is there a way to position the cursor at EOF in vi, I know from the man pages how to position the cursor at the end of a paragraph, but what about the EOF (End Of File).

Regards

You can place yourself at the last line of the file using
vi + /my/file/here

Cheers
ZB

For what is worth, In vi CNTRL-G will also take you to the last line. Shift-A will take you to the end of a line (though you will be appending). Maybe not exactly what you wanted but it might be the closest you will get.

It's Shift-G Ctrl-G prints file name, line, column, etc - information.

To place your self at the end of the last line do...
ESC (to place yourself in command mode)
Shift-G (to go to the last line)
$ (to go to the end of the line - not appending)

Cheers
ZB

ESC
:
$

aswell takes u to the last line in the file.

and one more $ takes you to the EOF.


or as said before by google Zbob ,

CTRL+G gives M of N .... where N is total number of lines in that file.

Goto last line and reach EOF by

ESC
:
N
and then $ to reach EOF.

Yes, but having to look at the output from CTRL+G, then plugging that into :N (i.e. :230 or whatever) is all extra uneccesary keystrokes. A simple SHIFT-G gets you down to the last line with no hassle. Or, as you suggest :$ does the same thing.

Cheers
ZB

I knew that! Thanks for catching that.