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I'm very new to vim and found bindings Ctrl-F for page down and Ctrl-B for page up kind of inconvenient. I intuitively try to page up with Ctrl-F and page down with Ctrl-B because F is higher than B.

QUESTION: Is there a way to swap this two combinations?

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Yes. You can change just about anything you want to change in Vim. Just do

nnoremap <C-f> <C-b>
nnoremap <C-b> <C-f>

Add those two mappings in your vimrc file and you've both of those commands swapped.

nnoremap - Maps new key combinations to existing commands without affecting any other commands that might be using the original command.

The mnemonic for me is, 

f - forward
b - backward

So, whenever I want to go forward in the page, I press Ctrl + F and Ctrl + B for going backward.

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  • Its not just something I use. It is probably how the command was intended to be remembered as.
    – Durga Swaroop
    Sep 24, 2016 at 8:47
  • There are other ways to move around in the file; the keys ^F and ^B move forward and backward a page, keeping a couple of lines of continuity between screens so that it is possible to read through a file using these rather than ^Dand ^U if you wish.
    – KCCole
    Dec 3, 2017 at 20:04
  • This is from Bill Joy's original paper on vi.
    – KCCole
    Dec 3, 2017 at 20:05

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