Comprehensive VIM Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet

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Working With Files Moving Around in the File (cont) Deleting Text

:e Open a new file. You can use the L To the the last line of the screen. x Delete characters under the cursor.
filename Tab key for automatic file name :n Jump to line number n. For example, to X Delete characters before the cursor.
comple​tion, just like at the shell
jump to line 42, you'd type :42
dd or :d Delete the current line.
command prompt.

:w Save changes to a file. If you don't Editing Blocks of Text

Inserting and Overwr​iting Text
filename specify a file name, Vim saves as
~ Change the case of charac​ters. This
the file name you were editing. For i Insert before cursor.
works both in visual and command mode.
saving the file under a different
l Insert to the start of the current line.
In visual mode, change the case of
name, specify the file name.
highli​ghted charac​ters. In command a Append after cursor.
:q Quit Vim. If you have unsaved
mode, change the case of the character A Append to the end of the current line.
changes, Vim refuses to exit.
uder cursor.
o Open a new line below and insert.
:q! Exit Vim without saving changes.
> Shift right (indent).
O Open a new line above and insert.
:wq Write the file and exit. (V)
C Change the rest of the current line.
:x Almost the same as :wq, write the < Shift left (de-in​dent).
file and exit if you've made changes (V) r Overwrite one character. After
to the file. If you haven't made any overwr​iting the single character, go
c Change the highli​ghted text.
changes to the file, Vim exits back to command mode.
(V)
without writing the file. R Enter insert mode but replace
y Yank the highli​ghted text. In Windows
characters rather than inserting.
(V) terms, "copy the selected text to
Moving Around in the File
clipbo​ard." ESC Exit insert​/ov​erwrite mode and go back
j or Up Move the cursor up one line. to command mode.
d Delete the highli​ghted text. In Windows
k or Down one line. (V) terms, "cut the selected text to
Down clipbo​ard." Search

h or Left one character. yy Yank the current line. You don't need to /pattern Search the file for pattern.
Left or highlight it first. n Scan for next search match in the
l or Right one character. :y same direction.
or
Right N Scan for next search match but
Y
e To the end of a word. opposite direction.
dd Delete the current line. Again, you don't
E To the end of a whites​pac​e-d​eli​mited
or need to highlight it first.
word. Undo and Redo
:d
b To the beginning of a word. u Undo the last action.
p Put the text you yanked or deleted. In
B To the beginning of a whites​pac​e- Windows terms, "​paste the contents of U Undo all the latest changes that were
d​eli​mited word. the clipbo​ard​". Put characters after the made to the current line.

0 To the beginning of a line. cursor. Put lines below the current line. Ctrl+r Redo.

^ To the first non-wh​ite​space character P Put characters before the cursor. Put

of a line. lines above the current line.

$ To the end of a line. Note: the Vim commands marked with (V) work
in visual mode, when you've selected some
H To the first line of the screen.
text. The other commands work in the
M To the middle line of the screen.
command mode, when you haven't selected
any text.

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 Comprehensive VIM Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet
by Nick Chai (typo209) via cheatography.com/2960/cs/731/

Visual Mode

v Start highli​ghting charac​ters. Use the normal movement keys

and commands to select text for highli​ghting.

V Start highli​ghting lines.

ESC Exit visual mode and return to command mode.

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