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Basics

Inserting text, saving and closing the buffer

i - Insert Text at the cursor

a - Append Text after the cursor

I - Insert text at the beginning of the line

A - Insert text at the end of the line

esc - Pressing escape will put you in normal mode, then pressing : will put you into command mode

:w - Write to file
:q - Quit file

Ctrl + ZZ - Write and quit (:wq)
Ctrl + ZQ - Force quit (:q!)

Movement

These can also be used with other commands, such as dw to delete to next word or while selecting a visual block.

h,l - Left, Right
j,k - Down, Up

0 - Go to the beginning of the line

$ - Go to the end of the line

gg - Go to the top of the file

G - Go to the bottom of the file

{ } - Jump up and down paragraphs

w - Beginning of next word

e - End of next word

b - Beginning of last word

5w - Move forwards 5 words, this also works with most commands

x - Delete/cut character under cursor d - Delete/cut selection dd - Delete the line d5d - Delete 5 lines d$ - Delete to end of the line

y - Yank/copy selection yy - Yank the line

p - Put/Paste at cursor P - Put/Paste after cursor

/<search> - Search forwards

?<search> - Search backwards

n - Next search result

N - Previous search result

c Change cw ci( - Change inside ( { " :s/x/y Replace x for y on the selected line :%s/x/y Replace x for y on each line

:r :e filename :bn :bp :bd :split :vs

Ctrl + ww Ctrl + wr Switch the splits around

v - Select lines
V - Select the current line
Ctrl + v - Visual selection in characters