Vim cheat sheet

Vim cheat sheet.md

A highly opinionated vim cheat sheet.

Copy / Cut / Paste (normal mode)

• selecting:
  • v: start selecting characters
  • V: selects the whole line
• action:
  • d: to cut
  • y: to copy
  • p: to paste after the cursor
  • gp: to paste after the cursor and then move the cursor at the end of the pasted text
  • P: to paste before the cursor
  • gP: to paste before the cursor and then move the cursor at the end of the pasted text

History

• u: undo last change
• Ctrl-R: redo last undone change

Motions

Word / WORD

• w: move to the start of the next word
• e: move to the end of the current or next word
• b: move to the start of the current or previous word

Note: upper case next word motions (e.g. W) will consider "word" as being 1 WORD, instead of 3 words.

Inline occurence

• f: move to the next character occurence in the current line
• t: move one character before the next character occurence in the current line
• ;: repeats the previous inline motion

Note: upper case inline motions (e.g. F) will move to previous occurence.

Splits

• Ctrl-W v: creates a new vertical split
• Ctrl-W s: creates a new horizontal split
• Ctrl-W q: closes the current split
• Ctrl-W h: switches the right split
• Ctrl-W l: switches the left split

Misc

• Ctrl-N: autocomplete word