My personal notebook for day-to-day vim usage

vimnotes.md

vimnotes

My personal notebook for day-to-day vim usage.

Individual commands (normal mode)

• i / [Insert] enters insert mode at current character
• I enters insert mode at beginning of line
• a enters insert mode at next character
• A enters insert mode at end of line
• $ goto end of line
• G goto end of file, first char
• gg goto beginning of file, first char
• w goto next word (beginning)
• e goto end of current/next word
• dd cut line
• yy copy line
• p paste buffer
• u undo
• cw rewrite word
• cc rewrite line
• v visual select
• y copy visual selection
• :!<cmd> executes <cmd> in shell
• /<text> searches for <text> in file
• n goes to next search result
• :%s/<search>/<replace>/g replaces all <search> with <replace>

Useful combinations

• yyp copy and paste (duplicate) line
• ea append at end of word
• GA append at enf of file