What is the difference between CTRL-T and CTRL-O in Vim?

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Matty picture Matty · Dec 5, 2011 · Viewed 20.8k times · Source

The documentation isn't especially clear—CTRL+T is to jump back in the tag stack, whereas CTRL+O is to jump back to the previous cursor position. What's the difference between CTRL+T and CTRL+O? They both appear to exhibit the same behavior.

Answer

number5 picture number5 · Dec 5, 2011

CTRL-T is working with tag stack

CTRL-O is working with jumplist

Tag stack and jumplist are different list in vim, but they might have same items when you jumping through tags (eg. using CTRL-])

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