How to put current line at top/center/bottom of screen in vim?

Question

Any quicker navigation trick to place the line at which the cursor is at the moment to the

• top of the screen?
• center of the screen?
• bottom of the screen?

Answer 1

zEnter or zt puts current line to top of screen

z. or zz puts current line to center of screen

z- or zb puts current line to bottom of screen

(zEnter, z., and z- puts the cursor in the first non blank column. zt, zz, and zb leaves the cursor in the current column)

More info about scrolling at http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/scroll.html or
in vim type :help scroll-cursor

Answer 2

Output of the :help scroll-cursor @mtk mentions. Note that there is a difference between zz and z..

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Scrolling relative to cursor (scroll-cursor)

The following commands reposition the edit window (the part of the buffer that you see) while keeping the cursor on the same line:

z<CR>                   Redraw, line [count] at top of window (default
                        cursor line).  Put cursor at first non-blank in the
                        line.

zt                      Like "z<CR>", but leave the cursor in the same
                        column.  {not in Vi}

z{height}<CR>           Redraw, make window {height} lines tall.  This is
                        useful to make the number of lines small when screen
                        updating is very slow.  Cannot make the height more
                        than the physical screen height.

z.                      Redraw, line [count] at center of window (default
                        cursor line).  Put cursor at first non-blank in the
                        line.

zz                      Like "z.", but leave the cursor in the same column.
                        Careful: If caps-lock is on, this command becomes
                        "ZZ": write buffer and exit!  {not in Vi}

z-                      Redraw, line [count] at bottom of window (default
                        cursor line).  Put cursor at first non-blank in the
                        line.

zb                      Like "z-", but leave the cursor in the same column.
                        {not in Vi}

Scrolling horizontally (scroll-horizontal)

For the following four commands the cursor follows the screen. If the character that the cursor is on is moved off the screen, the cursor is moved to the closest character that is on the screen. The value of 'sidescroll' is not used.

z<Right>    or
zl                      Move the view on the text [count] characters to the
                        right, thus scroll the text [count] characters to the
                        left.  This only works when 'wrap' is off.  {not in
                        Vi}

z<Left>      or
zh                      Move the view on the text [count] characters to the
                        left, thus scroll the text [count] characters to the
                        right.  This only works when 'wrap' is off.  {not in
                        Vi}

zL                      Move the view on the text half a screenwidth to the
                        right, thus scroll the text half a screenwidth to the
                        left.  This only works when 'wrap' is off.  {not in
                        Vi}

zH                      Move the view on the text half a screenwidth to the
                        left, thus scroll the text half a screenwidth to the
                        right.  This only works when 'wrap' is off.  {not in
                        Vi}

For the following two commands the cursor is not moved in the text, only the text scrolls on the screen.

zs                      Scroll the text horizontally to position the cursor
                        at the start (left side) of the screen.  This only
                        works when 'wrap' is off.  {not in Vi}

ze                      Scroll the text horizontally to position the cursor
                        at the end (right side) of the screen.  This only
                        works when 'wrap' is off.  {not in Vi}