1.9 KiB
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 - Jump to the beginning of the line
$ - Jump up the end of the line
gg - Jump to the top of the file
G - Jump to the bottom of the file
:5 - Jump to line 5
{ } - 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
Deleting and Clipboard
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
Editor Readibility(?)
zz - Center the current line in the editor
zt - Align the current line to the top of VIM
zb - Align the current line to the bottom of VIM
Search
/<search> - Search forwards
?<search> - Search backwards
n - Next search result
N - Previous search result
Replace/Change
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
Buffers Splits Multitasking
:r :e filename :bn :bp :bd :split :vs
Ctrl + ww Ctrl + wr Switch the splits around
Visual Selection
v - Select lines
V - Select the current line
Ctrl + v - Visual selection in characters