对于一些常用的动作和动作，我定义了以下映射。与CTRL+O组合相比，这节省了一次击键，因为我经常需要它们，它们在长期内是有回报的 运行。

inoremap <A-$> <C-o>$
inoremap <A-^> <C-o>^
inoremap <A-h> <Left>
inoremap <A-l> <Right>
inoremap <A-O> <C-O>O
inoremap <A-o> <C-o>o

在GVim中，您可以使用鼠标。但说实话，使用方向键有什么错呢?它们在键盘上是有原因的。

虽然您应该能够使用h j k l键在插入模式下遍历编辑器可能有意义，但这实际上不是Vim的使用方式!Vim提供了许多命令来使编辑变得更快更容易。

正确的方法是按Esc键，去你想做一个小的修正，修正它，返回并继续编辑。这是有效的，因为Vim有更多的运动比通常字符向前/向后/向上/向下。当你学到更多的时候，你就会更有效率。

下面是一些用例:

You accidentally typed "accifentally". No problem, the sequence EscFfrdA will correct the mistake and bring you back to where you were editing. The Ff movement will move your cursor backwards to the first encountered "f" character. Compare that with Ctrl+←→→→→DeldEnd, which does virtually the same in a casual editor, but takes more keystrokes and makes you move your hand out of the alphanumeric area of the keyboard. You accidentally typed "you accidentally typed", but want to correct it to "you intentionally typed". Then Esc2bcw will erase the word you want to fix and bring you to insert mode, so you can immediately retype it. To get back to editing, just press A instead of End, so you don't have to move your hand to reach the End key. You accidentally typed "mouse" instead of "mice". No problem - the good old Ctrl+w will delete the previous word without leaving insert mode. And it happens to be much faster to erase a small word than to fix errors within it. I'm so used to it that I had closed the browser page when I was typing this message...! Repetition count is largely underused. Before making a movement, you can type a number; and the movement will be repeated this number of times. For example, 15h will bring your cursor 15 characters back and 4j will move your cursor 4 lines down. Start using them and you'll get used to it soon. If you made a mistake ten characters back from your cursor, you'll find out that pressing the ← key 10 times is much slower than the iterative approach to moving the cursor. So you can instead quickly type the keys 12h (as a rough of guess how many characters back that you need to move your cursor), and immediately move forward twice with ll to quickly correct the error.

但是，如果您仍然想在不离开插入模式的情况下进行小型文本遍历，请遵循rson的建议并使用Ctrl+O。以我上面提到的第一个例子为例，Ctrl+OFf将移动到前面的“f”字符，并使您处于插入模式。

可以使用imap将插入模式下的任何键映射到其中一个游标键。像这样:

imap h <Left>

现在h的工作就像在正常模式下一样，移动光标。(以这种方式映射h显然是一个糟糕的选择)

话虽如此，我并不认为使用VIM在文本中移动的标准方式是“低效的”。在普通模式下有很多非常强大的遍历文本的方法(比如使用w和b，或/和?，或f和f，等等)。

Vim社区的许多人认为不应该在插入模式下导航，因为这不是Vim的方式。我认为这是在从标准编辑器过渡到Vim时学到的错误观点。

当您使用Vim的工具创建原子的、可重复的操作或查找时，Vim是最强大的。

如果您正在修复在同一插入会话中所犯的错误，则可以在插入模式下导航。您不应该在您修改的文本范围之外导航。

如果您在输入文本时出错，并退出插入模式来修复它，您将无法重复预期的操作。将重复修正。

Vim支持许多插入模式导航键。显然有方向键、Home键和结束键，但还有许多其他快捷键。参见:h ins-special-keys。

在插入模式下，使用CtrlO切换到正常模式，只执行一个命令:

CTRL-O h  move cursor left 
CTRL-O l  move cursor right
CTRL-O j  move cursor down
CTRL-O k  move cursor up

这可能是做你想做的事情的最简单的方法，也很容易记住。

插入模式中其他非常有用的控制键:

CTRL-W    delete word to the left of cursor
CTRL-O D  delete everything to the right of cursor
CTRL-U    delete everything to the left of cursor
CTRL-H    backspace/delete
CTRL-J    insert newline (easier than reaching for the return key)
CTRL-T    indent current line
CTRL-D    un-indent current line

这将消除许多浪费的开关回到正常模式。