Vim
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Quick
- Cheatsheet for programmers
- Shortcut layout
- Vim Quick Reference Card
- bullium.com Cheat Sheet
- http://www.worldtimzone.com/res/vi.html
Guides
- Vim Tips Wiki
- tuxfiles.org Vim commands
- Learn Vim Progressively
- Seven habits of effective text editing
- Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers!
Video
Main stuff
:w - save :w filename - save as :q - quit if saved :x - save if changed and quit ZZ - save as above ZQ - even if not saved (also :q!) :ex . - explore files in file directory. opens in split pans if file modified. :Sex - as above but forces split :Vex - as above but vertical split :Tex - as above but in new tab <enter> - open file o - open file in new split buffer
Moving around
zz - centre screen on cursor zt - move screen top to cursor zb - move screen bottom to cursor 0 - line beginning ^ - first non-whitespace character $ - line end
e - forward word
E - forward WORD
b - back word
B - back WORD
{ - beginning of previous
} - next paragraph
( - beginning of previous
) - next sentence
% - current brace
/ - find text
* - jump to next occurrence of work
n - repeat forwards
N - repeat backwards
H - cursor to top of screen (high)
M - cursor to middle of screen (middle)
L - cursor to bottom of screen (low)
Ctrl-D move cursor down half-page
Ctrl-U move cursor up half-page
gg - start of file
G - end of file
123G - move to line 123
ma - mark cursor position 'a'
'a - move to mark position 'a'
Operations
. - repeat last change
u - undo last change
U - undo all changes to current line
C-r - redo
i - insert at cursor
I - insert at line beginning
a - append after the cursor
A - append at the end of the line
o - add ('open') line below and insert
O - add line above and insert
x - delete character under cursor
X - delete character before cursor
y - yank (copy) current text
yy - yank current line
p - paste yanked text after cursor/line
P - pasted yanked text before cursor/line
d - delete and yank (cut)
dl - delete character (alias: "x")
dd - delete current line including linebreak
dw - delete to end of word from cursor
d$ - delete to end of line from cursor
diw - delete inner word
diW - delete inner WORD
daw - delete word, including a space
daW - delete WORD, including space
dis - delete inner sentence
das - delete a sentence
dib - delete inner '(' ')' block
dab - delete a '(' ')' block
dip - delete inner paragraph
dap - delete a paragraph
diB - delete inner '{' '}' block
daB - delete a '{' '}' block
c - change (delete and insert)
cc - delete current line including linebreak, insert
cw - delete to end of word from cursor, insert
c$ - delete to end of line from cursor, insert
ciw - delete inner word, insert
ci" - change inner quoted string
ci( - change inner brackets
ci[ - change inner contents of [].. ci], ci) for insert on closing bracket
caw - change an object
etc.
v - visual select text
viw - visual inner word
viw~ - visual inner word, toggle case
vip - visual inner paragraph
vec - visual, end of word, change highlighted
V - visual select lines
Ctrl-v - visual select a block
s - change one character and insert
Ctrl-Y - copy character from line above
Ctrl-E - copy character from line below
Ctrl-N - auto-completion next match
Ctrl-P - auto-completion previous match
> - indent right
< - indent left
:s/foo/bar/ - search and replace first occurrence
:s/foo/bar/s - search and replace, global current line
:%s/foo/bar/g - search and replace, global whole file
:%s/foo/bar/gc - search and replace, with confirm
:g/text string/d - delete all lines with text string
:!g/text string/d - delete all lines without text string
qa - start recording macro 'a', q - stop recording
qA - start appending to macro 'a'
@a - play macro a
@@ - execute again
3@a - play macro 3 thrice
:let @a='macrogoeshere' - write macro manually
Ctrl-R Ctrl-R a - insert mode
:let @a='Ctrl-R Ctrl-R a - edit existing macro
[edit] Fugitive.vim
:Gwrite - git add file
:Gread - git checkout (revert) open to staged version
:Gremove - git rm and close buffer
:Gmove - git mv file. with /, relative to git root; without, relative to file
:Gcommit - git commit, opens message buffer
:Gblame - open split window with git blame details
:Gbrowse - open Github, else git instaweb for local sevrer
vimdiff resolution:
:diffget [buffer] - get diff from another buffer
:diffput [buffer] - put diff into another buffer
:diffupdate - update diff colouring
dg - get from other buffer pane (only 2 pane)
dp - put to other buffer pane (works in 3 pane)
[c - jump to previous changeset
]c - jump to next changeset
:only - close buffers other than active
Split windows
:sp [filename] Ctrl-W - move up window Ctrl-W x - switch windows
Folds
zo - open fold zO - open fold recursively zc - close fold zC - close fold resursive zR - open all folds zM - close all zj - go down and up a fold zk - go up a fold
Handy
:e scp://root@example.com/~user/folder/.config - open remote file $ vim scp://root@example.com/~user/folder/.config :reg - list register contents K - in normal mode, run man for current word (opens "man word" in shell)
Vimscripts
cmdalias.vim : Create aliases for Vim commands. [1]