The next characters you type, however, will be put on the first line of your document. The cursor will be below the last word in the list. Moving the cursor In Command Mode, you may move the cursor to any position on the screen or to text not currently displayed on the screen. Some terminals or terminal emulation programs use the arrow keys. This is not common, however, and it is more typical to use letters to move the cursor around the screen.
Carriage return moves the cursor one line down.
The are several ways to move more than one line at a time. You may delete a character, a line, or a number of lines in vi from the Command Mode. This will delete the line and place you at the beginning of the line below. To delete a range of lines, move the cursor to the first line you wish to delete. This will put you into Text Input Mode.