Vim

A noncomprehensive compilation of my most frequently used commands in Vim.

Cursor Movement

Basic Movement

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

Word movement

• w - Go to beginning of next word
• e - Go to end of current/next word
• B - Go back to beginning of last word

Line movement

• 0 - Go to beginning of line
• $ - Go to end of line

Page movement

• h - Move cursor to top of page

• m - Move cursor to middle of page -L - Move cursor to bottom (low) of page

• g - jump to end of file

• gg - Jump to beginning of file

• } - jump to next paragraph (or function/block, when editing code)
• { - jump to previous paragraph (or function/block, when editing code)

Ctrl+[key] movement

• Ctrl+e - move screen down one line (without moving cursor)
• Ctrl+y - move screen up one line (without moving cursor)
• Ctrl+b - move screen up one page (cursor to last line)
• Ctrl+f - move screen down one page (cursor to first line)
• Ctrl+d - move cursor and screen down 1/2 page
• Ctrl+u - move cursor and screen up 1/2 page

Text editing

Insert text

• i - Insert mode
• o - Insert new line below cursor
• O - Insert new line before cursor
• A - Insert at end of current line

Deleting words Note: You can enter view mode (v ) to highlight, delete, cut, and paste multiple lines at once

• x - Delete character under cursor
• dw - Delete word over cursor
• . - When used after dw deletes the next word as well
• dd - Delete entire line
• D - Delete from cursor to end of line

Undo/Redo

• u - Undo last change
• 2u - Undo last two changes
• Ctrl-r - Redo changes

Text replacement

• r - replace a single character.

• R - replace more than one character, until esc is pressed.

• cc - change (replace) entire line
• c$/C - change (replace) to the end of the line
• ciw - change (replace) entire word
• cw/ce - change (replace) to the end of the word

Cut and Paste

Yanking (copy)

• yy - yank (copy) a line
• 2yy - yank (copy) 2 lines
• yw - yank the characters of the word from the cursor position to the start of the next word
• yiw - yank (copy) word under the cursor
• yaw - yank (copy) word under the cursor and the space after or before it

• y$/Y - yank (copy) to end of line

• d - Cut line
• P - Paste before cursor
• p - Paste after cursor

Selection

• ggVG - Select all text in file