Vim for Advanced User

Simple:

Basic:

• ^E scroll the window down.
• ^Y scroll the window up.
• ^F scroll down one page.
• ^B scroll up one page.
• H move cursor to the top 0f the window.
• M move cursor to the middle of the window.
• L move cursor to the bottom of the window.
• h moves the cursor one character to the left.
• j moves the cursor down one line.
• k moves the cursor up one line.
• l moves the cursor one character to the right.
• 0 moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
• $ moves the cursor to the end of the line.
• w move forward one word.
• b move backward one word.
• G move to the end of the file.
• gg move to the beginning of the file.

• `. move to the last edit.

  Editing Vim:

• d starts the delete operation.
• dw will delete a word.
• d0 will delete to the beginning of a line.
• d$ will delete to the end of a line.
• dgg will delete to the beginning of the file.
• dG will delete to the end of the file.
• u will undo the last operation.

• Ctrl-r will redo the last undo.

  Searching and Replacing:

• /text search for text in the document, going forward.
• n move the cursor to the next instance of the text from the last search. This will wrap to the beginning of the document.
• N move the cursor to the previous instance of the text from the last search.
• ?text search for text in the document, going backwards.
• :%s/text/replacement text/g search through the entire document for text and replace it with replacement text.

• :%s/text/replacement text/gc search through the entire document and confirm before replacing text.

  Copying and Pasting:

• v highlight one character at a time.
• V highlight one line at a time.
• Ctrl-v highlight by columns.
• p paste text after the current line.
• P paste text on the current line.

• y yank text into the copy buffer.

  Save and Quit:

• :w to write the file.
• ZQ to quit without saving (as :q!)
• ZZ to quit vim. (as :wq)

further

text objects and motions

w - words

s - sentences

p - paragraphs

t -tags

a - all

i - in

t - ‘til

f - find forward

F - find backward

Commands

d - delete (also cut)

c - change (delete, then place in insert mode )

y - yank (copy)

v - visually select

Usages : [Commands] [text objects]

example:

diw delete in word

caw change all word

yi) yank all text in parentheses

di[ delete in bracket

dt delete until space

or dt. delete until dot

va' select inside ‘’

. repeat last Command

More Commands:

• dd/yy - delete/yank the current line.
• D/C - delete/change until end of the line.
• ^/$ - move to the beginning/end of the line.
• I/A - move to the beginning/end of the line and insert.
• o/O - insert new line above/below current line and insert.
• p/P - paste below/above the line.
• :earlier 2m will be your file as 2 min before.

Macro

• q{register} (e.g. qw)
• (do things)
• q

play a Macro

• @{register} (e.g. @W)
• @@ play last macro

view a Macro

• :registers - view macros
• reg

appending a macro

• q{register}…q

marker

• m{register} to mark the position.
• `{register} to go to the mark.

delete a mark

• :delmarks a - delete selected mark
• :delmarks ! - delete all marks (lowercase)