How to move the cursor to its last position in vim?

The quickest way is to hit either:

''

(two apostrophes) or:

``

(two backticks). Note that the difference is that the backtick goes to the same location on the line, whereas the apostrophe goes to the start of the line. On a UK keyboard, the apostrophe is more accessible, so I tend to use that one. There are loads of useful marks like this, see :help mark-motions.

For some other motions (not 2j I think), there's also the jump-list that lets you navigate back and forth among a number of motions. Ctrl-O and Ctrl-I do this navigation, but see :help jump-motions for more information.




Original link on stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5052079/move-cursor-to-its-last-position