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What is the best command line way to tell Vim to put the cursor on the last line for editing?

I ended up with: vi -c '$' myLargeFile.txt

which of course works fine. But I thought there was a dedicated command
for this. In less, you can use "+G", but that doesn't seem to work with
vi(m), which surprised me.
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In comp.editors, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

What is the best command line way to tell Vim to put the cursor on the last line for editing?

I ended up with: vi -c '$' myLargeFile.txt

The -c commands operate in ex mode, so $ is the correct answer.

which of course works fine. But I thought there was a dedicated command
for this. In less, you can use "+G", but that doesn't seem to work with vi(m), which surprised me.

In vi mode, you can use G to go to the end of the file, and <num>G to go
to a particular line number. If you have vim, vi mode is also called
"normal" mode and this works:

vim -c 'normal G' myLargeFile.txt

I pretty much only use "normal" for g// operations, like say increase
the number in column three (tab separated) by two on lines matching foobar:

:g/foobar/ normal 02f^V^I2^V^A

where ^V^I is typed ctrl-V <tab>, for an escaped tab character, and ^V^A
is typed ctrl-V ctrl-A, for an escaped control-A.

Elijah
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and use ":set nrformats=" (empty value) for normal number handling
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On 2026-04-05 15:43, Kenny McCormack wrote:

What is the best command line way to tell Vim to put the cursor on the last line for editing?

I ended up with: vi -c '$' myLargeFile.txt

which of course works fine. But I thought there was a dedicated command
for this. In less, you can use "+G", but that doesn't seem to work with vi(m), which surprised me.

I just tried out omitting the line number and simply write

vim + myLargeFile.txt (instead of +N)

which places the cursor in the last line (similar to 'G' in
command mode).

Janis

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In article <10r0fc6$in2n$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 2026-04-05 15:43, Kenny McCormack wrote:

What is the best command line way to tell Vim to put the cursor on the last >> line for editing?

I ended up with: vi -c '$' myLargeFile.txt

which of course works fine. But I thought there was a dedicated command
for this. In less, you can use "+G", but that doesn't seem to work with
vi(m), which surprised me.

I just tried out omitting the line number and simply write

vim + myLargeFile.txt (instead of +N)

which places the cursor in the last line (similar to 'G' in
command mode).

Yup! That's what I was looking for.
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