How to scroll and jump around the screen in Vim — Ctrl-d/u/f/b and H M L

Moving a page at a time, or jumping to the top, middle or bottom of what is on screen.

Almost every entry was run headless in Vim 9.1 and the resulting file checked; the few entries a tiny build cannot run (system clipboard, persistent undo, the sudo save) were verified against Vim's own documentation instead.

Ctrl-d      " half a page down     Ctrl-u  half a page up
Ctrl-f      " a full page forward  Ctrl-b  a full page back
H           " top line of the screen   M  middle   L  bottom

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