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Vim Cheatsheet PDF

This cheat sheet provides an overview of basic Vim commands for navigation, editing, and modes. It explains that Vim has different modes for commands, navigation, and editing text. The sheet also gives examples of navigation commands to move around text as well as editing commands to make changes and delete text in command and insert modes.

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Vim Cheatsheet PDF

This cheat sheet provides an overview of basic Vim commands for navigation, editing, and modes. It explains that Vim has different modes for commands, navigation, and editing text. The sheet also gives examples of navigation commands to move around text as well as editing commands to make changes and delete text in command and insert modes.

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Dibya Ranjan Jena
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A Basic Vim Cheat Sheet

Hello there! Vim is a modern version of Vi, the venerable Unix text

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
editor. Here is a cheat sheet for Vim. This line ends here.
So. This is some silly samp;le text to demo navigation. In Vim.

Source: http://code.ahren.org/
A new line. b e moves
w cursor
} E here

command
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fn
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cursor position

Vim Modes Combine navigation with commands to do powerful things


Different sets of actions can
be performed in each mode navigation change c delete d copy/paste y
Command Line Mode w/b fwd/bwd word cw change word dw delete word yw yank/copy word
w save file W/B fwd/bwd full word cW change full word dW delete full word ... so on ...
q quit vim e/E end of word ce chg to word end de del to word end
e edit new file yy yank/copy line
fx fwd. to char. x cfx chg to char. x dfx del to char. x
paste yanked or
( start of sentence c( chg to sent. start d( del to sent. start p
: esc deleted text
) end of sentence c) chg to sent. end d) del to sent. end
0/$ start/end of line ... so on ... ... so on ...
Command Mode
{ start of paragraph
navigation/modification
} end of paragraph cc change line dd delete line
miscellaneous
/ab search fwd to ab r repl char @ cursor u undo
esc i,o,a x del char @ cursor
ma mark position as a R replace multiple C-r redo
Write/Insert Mode D del to end of line
`a return to pos. a ~ chg case @ cursor J join lines
mode to enter text c`a chg to pos. a
C-b/f Page up/down
C-x is short for Ctrl-x

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