VI Editor Cheat Sheet

by adzz via cheatography.com/30551/cs/9123/

Controls Inserting Text Searching (cont)

:w Save i Insert before cursor n Go to next match

:x or :wq Save & Exit I Insert before line N Go to previous match

:q Exit, is no changes a Append after cursor * Search for next instance of current word

:q! Exit, ignore any changes A Append after line # Search for last instance of current word

:set ic Ignore case while searching o Open a new line after current line
Replacing
:set noic Case-s​ens​itive searching O Open a new line before current line

:set nu Turn on line numbers r Replace one character :s/pt/​str​/flag Replace pattern with string

R Replace many characters :% Replace all old with new

Markers s/old/new

mc Set marker c on this line Deleting Text Flags

`c Go to beginning of marker c line x Delete character to the right of cursor g Replace all occurr​ences of
pattern
'c Go to first non-blank character of marker X Delete character to the left of cursor
c line c Confirm replaces
D Delete to the end of line
& Repeat last :s command
dd or Delete current line
Navigation
:d
Other
h or Move left :%d Delete all lines
 u Undo last change
:1,$d Delete lines from beginning of file to
j or Move down end of current line U Undo all changes to line

:x,yd Delete lines x through y J Join lines
k or Move up
ndw Delete the next n words nJ Join next n lines

ndb Delete the previous n words . Repeat last command
l or Move right
ndd Delete n lines starting with current > Indent

< De-indent
w Move to next word
Copy and Paste
W Move to next blank delimited word
Other Navigation
yy or :y Yank current line
b Move to the beginning of the word
y{motion} Yank {motion} text ( Move a sentence back
B Move to the beginning of the blank
delimited word p Put after the position or line ) Move a sentence forward

e Move to the end of the word P Put before the position or line { Move a paragraph back

E Move to the end of blank delimited } Move a paragraph forward

word Changing text

fc Move forward to c

0 Move to the beginning of the line C Change to end of the line Fc Move back to c

$ Move to the end of the line cc Change the whole line

Clean Up
1G or Move to the first line in file guu Lowercase line
:0 :g/^$/d Delete blank lines
gUU Uppercase line
G or Move to the last line in file ~ Toggle upper and lower case :%s/​​\s\+ Delete trailing white space
:$ $//
nG or Move to the nth line in file Searching :s/\s\+/ Delete all extra white space
:n /g between words
/string Search forward for string
% Move to associated (), {}, []
?string Search backwards for string

By adzz Published 15th September, 2016. Sponsored by ApolloPad.com

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