- C-a == Ctrl-a
- M-a == Alt-a
:q close
:w write/saves
:wa[!] write/save all windows [force]
:wq write/save and close
:x save and quit, same as wq
:q! force close if file has changed and not save changes
v Enter visual mode for selection of LINES
C-v Enter visual mode for selection of BLOCKS
y Yank/copy selected region
yy Yank/copy entire line
"<reg>y Yank/copy marked region into register <reg> (register from a-z)
c Cut selection
p Paste yanked content
"<reg>p Paste yanked content in register <reg> (from a-z)
P Paste yanked content BEFORE
u Undo
C-r Redo
:!<cmd> Execute shell command <cmd>
C-z send vim to background (fg brings it to front again)
C-ws Split current window horizontally (alternative :split)
C-wv Split current window vertically (alternative :vsplit)
C-ww Jump to the next window
C-wARROW Jump to window left/right/top/bottom (arrow keys) to the current
C-w#< Shrink/resize current window from the right by # (default 1)
C-w#> Increase/resize current window to the right by # (default 1)
a Append text after the cursor
A Append text at the end of the line
i Insert text before the cursor
I Insert text before the first non-blank in the line
o Begin a new line BELOW the cursor and insert text
O Begin a new line ABOVE the cursor and insert text
s Erase the current letter under the cursor, set insert-mode
S Erase the whole line, set insert-mode
cc Delete the current line, set insert-mode
cw Delete word, set insert-mode
dd Delete line under curser
Vim has 26 registers (a-z), select the one you want to record in, see below. Exit Record mode with ESC
q[a-z] Start recording, everything will be recorded including movement actions.
@[a-z] Execute the recorded actions.
See vimcast #19 as an introduction: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/spell-checking/
Assuming that you have the following in .vimrc:
nnoremap <silent> <leader>s :set spell!<cr>
<leader>s Toggle Spelling
]s Next spelling mistake
[s Previous spelling mistake
z= Give Suggestions (prepent 1, use first suggestions automatically)
zg Add misspelled to spellfile
zug Remove word from spellfile
see http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/spell.html
essential
h cursor left
j cursor down
l cursor right
k cursor up
H Jump to TOP of screen
M Jump to MIDDLE of screen
L Jump to BOTTOM of screen
C-b Move back one full screen (page up)
C-f Move forward one full screen (page down)
C-d Move forward 1/2 screen; half page down
C-u Move back (up) 1/2 screen; half page up
w jump by start of words (punctuation considered words)
e jump to end of words (punctuation considered words)
b jump backward by words (punctuation considered words)
0 (zero) start of line
^ first non-blank character of line
$ end of line
G bottom of file
gg top of file
good to know
E jump to end of words (no punctuation)
W jump by words (spaces separate words)
B jump backward by words (no punctuation)
#G goto line #
#gg goto line #
consider consulting :help [ and :help g
* search for word under cursor (forward) and highlight occurrence (see incsearch, hlsearch below)
% jump from open/close ( / #if / ( / { to corresponding ) / #endif / }
[{ jump to start of current code block
]} jump to end of current code block
gd jump to var declaration (see incsearch, hlsearch below)
f<c> Find char <c> from current cursor position -- forwards
F<c> Find char <c> from current cursor position -- backwards
, Repeat previous f<c> or F<c> in opposite direction
; Repeat previous f<c> or F<c> in same direction
'. jump back to last edited line.
g; jump back to last edited position.
[m jump to start of funtion body
[i show first declartion/use of the word under cursor
[I show all occurrences of word under cursor in current file
[/ cursor to N previous start of a C comment
built-in grep, vimgrep uses vim's quickfix list. see vimcasts#44 for introduction: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/search-multiple-files-with-vimgrep/
:vimgrep /<regex>/g % Search for <regex> with multiple occasions per line (g)
in current file (%)
:vimgrep /<C-r>// % On the command line, <C-r>/ (that is: CTRL-R followed by /)
will insert the last search pattern.
:vimgrep /<a>/g <filelist> Search in the given files (<filelist>)
:vimgrep /<a>/g *.cc Search in all *.cc files current directory
:vimgrep /<a>/g **/*.cc Search in all *.cc files in every sub-directory (recursively)
:vimgrep /<a>/g `find . -type f`
Search in all files that are returns by the backtick command.
:vim short for :vimgrep
:cnext Jump to next record/match in quickfix list
:cprev Jump to previous record/match in quickfix list
Unimpaired plugin (https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired) provides the following mappings:
[q see :cprev
]q see :cnext
[Q see :cfirst
]Q see :clast
see also: http://usevim.com/2012/08/24/vim101-quickfix/ and http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/quickfix.html
Mark a position in a buffer and jump back to it. see also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_marks
ma set mark a at current cursor location
'a jump to line of mark a (first non-blank character in line)
`a jump to position (line and column) of mark a
d'a delete from current line to line of mark a
d`a delete from current cursor position to position of mark a
c'a change text from current line to line of mark a
y`a yank text to unnamed buffer from cursor to position of mark a
:marks list all the current marks
:marks aB list marks a, B
(text is copied from link above)
x Delete char UNDER cursor
X Delete char BEFORE cursor
#x Delete the next # chars. starting from char under cursor
dw Delete next word
dW Delete UP TO the next word
d^ Delete up unto the beginning of the line
d$ Delete until end of the line
D See d$, delete until end of the line
dd Delete whole line
dib Delete contents in parenthesis '(' ')' block (e.g. function args)
diB Delete inner '{' '}' block
daB Delete a '{' '}' block
das Delete a senctence
diw Delete word under cursor
df<c> Delete until next occurence of <c> (char) found (including <c>) [in single line]
dt<c> Delete until next occurence of <c> (char) found (without <c>!!!) [in single line]
ciw Change word under cursor
ciB Change inner '{' '}' block
cf<c> See "df<c>" but change instead of delete
ct<c> See "dt<c>" but change instead of delete
#J Merge # number of lines together
gq (in visual-mode) format selected text according to line-width
gqq format current line according to line-width
#gqq format next #-lines
C-n Keyword completion
Tab Keyword completion (SuperTab plugin)
r<c> Replace char <c>
#r<c> Replace follow # chars with <c>, : csock, cursor on s, 3re ceeek
:s/xxx/yyy/ Replace xxx with yyy at the first occurrence
:s/xxx/yyy/g Replace xxx with yyy first occurrence, global (whole sentence)
:s/xxx/yyy/gc Replace xxx with yyy global with confirm
:%s/xxx/yyy/g Replace xxx with yyy global in the whole file
u Convert selection (visual mode) to lowercase
U Convert selection (visual mode) to uppercase
:g/^#/d Delete all lines that begins with #
:g/^$/d Delete all lines that are empty
ga Show ASCII of char under cursor
* cw bar ESC n .
* word under cursor 'foo'
cw change word (enter insert mode)
bar typed new word 'bar'
ESC exit insert mode
n next occurrence
. repeat previous command
3i Help!_ ESC
oESCp
<select> y / C-r0
<select> Select text in VISUAL mode (v)
y Yank selection
/ Search for
C-r0 Press Ctrl-R and 0 to paste in
C-v <select> # ESC ESC
C-v Enter VISUAL block mode
<sel> Select lines
# Comment char for programming language (perl, python, bash, etc)
ESC Exit
ESC Completes adding comment char for previous selected block
auto correction of frequently misspelled words.
:abbr Lunix Linux
:abbr accross across
:abbr hte the
- If you set the incsearch option, Vim will show the first match for the pattern, while you are still typing it. This quickly shows a typo in the pattern.
- If you set the hlsearch option, Vim will highlight all matches for the pattern with a yellow background. This gives a quick overview of where the search command will take you. In program code it can show where a variable is used. You don't even have to move the cursor to see the matches.
https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree/blob/master/doc/NERD_tree.txt
F3 Toogle NERD-Tree visible
https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
C-p Open ctrlp window (alternative :CtrlP)
:CtrlP d Open CtrlP with specific d = directory
C-b Change mode: mru (most recent used) | buffers | files
Use gq (see Editing section) for formating lines according to configured line-width.
For C++ formating using clang-format see https://github.com/rhysd/vim-clang-format
- http://www.worldtimzone.com/res/vi.html
- http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vim
- http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html
- Yet Another Vim Cheat Sheet
- Seven habits of effective text editing: http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
- Vim After 11 Years: http://statico.github.com/vim.html
- Coming Home to Vim: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim
- vimcasts.org Video-casts on vim
- usevim.com Plugin introductions and useful tipps
- vimregex.com Infos about vims regex engine
- Productive vim shortcuts http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim
- 100 Vim commands every programmer should know http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/100-vim-commands-every-programmer-should-know
- VimGenius Interactive vim lesson, with some muscle learn potential
- Best of VimTips zzapper 15 Years of Vi + 8+ years of Vim and still learning
- http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html
- Use ag (silver searcher) as an indexer for Ctrl-P; and py-matcher for ctrl-p matching function: http://blog.patspam.com/2014/super-fast-ctrlp
- Command-T authors cheatsheet
- https://takac.github.io/2013/01/30/vim-grammar/
- NERDTree
- NERDCommenter
- Ctrl-P
- easytags
- unimpard
- supertab
- tagbar
- omnicomplete (C++)
- zenburn
- tango
- activate colorcolumn: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1919028/how-to-show-vertical-line-to-wrap-the-line-in-vim
- set color: http://choorucode.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/vim-set-color-of-colorcolumn/
:set colorcolumn=81
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=8
Awesome. Thanks.