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I wonder if there's navigation modern vim doesn't offer. Can you tell if or how you can do the following in vim?

In Emacs, Ctrl-<up arrow> moves the cursor ahead of a block of code. If you had a for loop for example, with a blank line where the for begins and a blank line where it ends, and the cursor was at the blank line where it ends, pressing the two keys Ctrl and <up arrow> would put you in the beginning.

How would you do this in vim? Would you have to first gauge how many lines of text up you should move?

[dllthomas]

Potentially depends a bit on the language and what plugins &c you have installed. For C on a basic install, you can say [{ to jump to the enclosing { (and there is the symmetric ]} as well). You can also use { and } to step over "paragraphs". And of course, if your goal is to replace the body of the for loop, ci} will delete everything inside the innermost containing {} and switch you to insert mode.