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vim-cheatsheet.md

Vim Cheatsheet

Motions

Navigation

• w: Move [] -> next word
• W: Move [] -> next WORD
• e: Move [] -> word end
• E: Move [] -> WORD end
• $: Move [] -> line end
• 0 (zero): Move [] -> line start
• b: [] -> prev word
• B: [] -> prev WORD
• Ctrl-G: Show [] location in footer
• G: [] -> bottom of file
• gg: [] -> top of file
• <num>G: [] -> to line <num>
• Ctrl-O: [] -> back history [] location
• Ctrl-I: [] -> forward history [] location
• %: [] -> matching paren (), [], {}
• Ctrl-W Ctrl-W: jump between windows

Editing

• i: Insert mode at []
• a: Insert mode after []
• A: Insert mode at EOL
• o: Insert mode on newline below []
• O: Insert mode on newline above []
• p: Put removed content after []
• P: Put removed content before []
• r<char>: Replace char at [] with <char>
• R: Replace (overwrite) mode at []
• y: Yank (copy)
  • yy: Yank whole line
  • yw: Yank [] -> next word
  • ye: Yank [] -> end of word
  • y$: Yank [] -> end of line
• d: Delete operator
  • dw: Delete [] -> next word start
  • de: Delete [] -> current word end
  • d$: Delete [] -> line end
  • <num = 1>dd: Delete whole lines current and down
• c: Change (remove current and enter Insert mode)
  • cw: Change [] -> next word
  • ce: Change [] -> end of word
  • c$: Change [] -> end of line
  • cC: Change whole line
• <num><motion>: repeat action times
• <operator><num><motion>: repeat action times in direction
• u: Undo last command
• U: Revert whole line to previous save
• Ctrl-R: Redo last undone commend
• ~: Toggle case
• .: Repeat last command
• *: Highlight all instances of current word

Search

• /<phrase>: Search for <phrase> forward from [] (append \c to ignore case)
• ?<phrase>: Search for <phrase> backward from [] (append \c to ignore case)
• n: [] -> next result
• N: [] -> prev result
• :s/<old>/<new>/g: substitute command. Replace all <old> with <new> in the current line (g flag is global)
• :<line1>,<line2>s/<old>/<new>/g: substitute command. Replace all <old> with <new> in the <line1>,<line2> range (g flag is global)
• :%s/<old>/<new>/g: substitute command. Replace all <old> with <new> in the whole file (g flag is global)
• :%s/<old>/<new>/gc: substitute command. Replace all <old> with <new> in the whole file with prompt (g flag is global)
• :[no]hlsearch/[no]hls: toggle highlight of current search

External Commands

• :!<cmd>: execute external command (! prefix executes the command anywhere)
• :w <filename>: save current buffer to <filename>
• v <motion> w <filename>: save current selection to <filename>
• :r <filename>: insert contents of <filename> below []
• :r !<cmd>: insert output of <cmd> below []

Help

• :help: show Help
• :help <cmd>: show Help for specific <cmd>
• :help v_<cmd>: show Help for specific <cmd> in Visual mode
• :help i_<cmd>: show Help for specific <cmd> in Insert mode
• :help :<cmd>: show Help for specific command-line <cmd>
• :help c_<???>: show Help for specific command-line editing <???>
• :help <option>: show Help for <option>
• Ctrl-]: show help for current word/tag
  • Ctrl-T | Ctrl-O: go back from current word/tag

Options

• :set [no]<option>: enable/disable <option>
  • [no]ic: ignore case
  • [no]hlsearch/[no]hls: highlight search
  • [no]incsearch/[no]is: incremental search