Which operator can be used to move cursor to the last non-blank character of the screen line in vim?

Question

I know g$ can be used to move the cursor to the last character of the screen line, but which operator can be used to move the cursor to the last non-blank character of the screen line?

Answer 1

g_ (g followed by underscore) moves to the last non-blank character of the screen line text line. (As pointed out by han pingtian in the comments).

To move to the last non-blank character of the screen line, there's no single operator that I could find, but you could combine g$ with ge to achieve this result: use g$ to go to the last character (blank or non-blank) of the screen line, then if the cursor is on whitespace, use ge to move backwards to the last character of the previous word. (And of course, if the character under the cursor is non-blank, just omit the ge operator).

If you're trying to write a script, this won't be as helpful as a single dedicated operator, since it requires making a decision about the character under the cursor after the g$ has completed. But if you're just trying to go to the last non-blank character in visual mode or for interactive editing purposes, the g$ ge combination should suffice for what you need.

Also try substituting gE for ge, depending on whether you want to skip over punctuation or not. (See :help word-motions for the distinction between e and E: basically, E counts ALL non-whitespace characters as word characters, while e counts only letters, digits and underscores.)