Question

I have been trying to learn Vim and have been using it for 2 weeks now.

My question is how do I return the cursor immediately to the middle of the text I just typed:

I have a tendency to type:

<div>
</div>

and returning back to the content of the tag and writing its contents:

<div>
text
</div>

This also goes for functions:

function eat() {
}

before getting back to the middle of the and typing it’s contents:

function eat(){
  blah
}

Answer 1

An uppercase O, so Shift+o, inserts an empty line above the one you’re currently on and puts you into insert mode where you can begin typing. It was kind of an epiphany for me when I first figured that out.