Created after reading Learning the vi and vim editors seventh editor. O`Reilly, 2008
- Basics
- Scrolling
- Moving around the text
- Searching
- Navigation
- Change Delete Copy patterns
- Opening files
- Buffering
- Marks
- Replacement
- Advanced editing
- Multiple windows
- Features for programmers
- Other cool stuff
:wq, ZZ # Saves and exits
set wm=10 # Wrapmargin
w, W(b, B) # Navigation on words
23G # Go to line
# Command format:
# (command)(number)(text obj)
# d2w
# y3w
s, S # Substitutes symbol or line
r, R # Replaces symbol or line
x, X # Deletes symbol before, after cursor
c, C # Replaces <object>, end of line
d, D # Deletes <object>, end of line
y, Y, yy # Yanks the line
~ # Inverts case
. # Repeat last command
u, U # Undo, undo all changes on the curr line
C-R # Redo
25i*
10aword # Multiple insert
C-F # Scroll hole page forward
C-B # Back
C-D # Scroll half of the page forward
C-U # Back
C-E # Scroll one line forward
C-Y # Back
z<Enter> # Moves current line to the top
z. # Center
z- # Bottom
H # Moves cursor to the top
M # Middle
L # Bottom
( # move to the beginning of current sentence
) # move to the beginning of next sentence
{ # move to the beginning of current paragraph
} # move to the beginning of next paragraph
[[ # move to beginning of current section
]] # move to beginning of next section
/, ?
f, F
;, ,
dfx, cfx
dtx, ctx
ct. # Change the hole sentence
5G
`` # Go back before 5G
'' # Go back before 5G to the begging of line
| Change | Delete | Copy | From cursor to... |
|---|---|---|---|
| cH | dH | yH | Top of screen |
| cL | dL | yL | Bottom of screen |
| c+ | d+ | y+ | Next line |
| c5| | d5| | y5| | Column 5 of current line |
| 2c) | 2d) | 2y) | Second sentence following |
| c{ | d{ | y{ | Previous paragraph |
| c/prn | d/prn | y/prn | Pattern |
| cn | dn | yn | Next pattern |
| cG | dG | yG | End of file |
| c13G | d13G | y13G | Line number 13 |
vi +n files # Opens file and puts cursor on line n
vi + file # Puts cursor on last line
vi +/prn # Puts cursor on pattern
"1p # Restores from buffer #1
"1pu.u.u.u # Searches through this buffer
"ayy
"aP
"Ayy # Append to buffer 'a'
mx
`x
'x # Goes to begging of the line
50, 100s:old:new:gc # g - global, c - confirm
%s:old:new:g # % - entire file
g:pattern:s:old:new:g # Replaces in lines with /pattern/
%s:[a-zA-Z]\+.:sentence:g # With regular expression
%s:\(That\) or \(this\):\2 or \1 # Uses buffers
%s:File:&, here:g # & - use matched text
1,10s:.*:(&):g # Surrounds with brackets
%s:his:their:g
%s:her:~:g # ~ - use same text from previous
s:\(That\) \(this\):\u\2 \l\1:g # \u,\l - upper, lower case
s:\<child\>:children:g # \<\> - matches a word
set autoindent
C-T # New level of indentation (in insert mode)
C-D # One level of indentation back
>> # Indent right (in normal mode)
<< # Indent left
set shiftwidth = 2
ctags
tag mytag # Finds a tag
^] # Goes to the tag under cursor
C-Wh
C-Wl
C-Wj
C-Wk # Goes to window ...
C-Wt # Goes to top left window
C-Wb # Goes to right down window
C-Wp # Goes to previous (last accessed) window
C-Wr # Rotates two windows
C-Wx # Exchange windows
3C-Wx # Exchange current with 3rd one
C-WK # Moves curr window to the top
C-WJ # Bottom
C-WH # Left
C-WL # Right
C-WT # Goes to next free tap
C-W= # Sets all windows to be equal
C-W- # Decreases window size
C-W+ # Increases window size
C-W> # Decreases in vertical
C-W< # Increases in vertical
resize -10
vertical resize 5
C-W| # Re-sizes most widely
zf # Creates fold
zo # Opens fold
zO # Opens all folds
zc # Closes fold
zd # Deletes fold
zD # Deletes all folds
:set foldcolumn=6
:set foldermethod=syntax # Manual, indent, expr, syntax, diff, marker
:set foldenabled
C-X,C-F # File completion
C-X,C-L # Line completion
C-N # Moves to next completion
C-P # Moves to previous completion
:set binary # Enables binary mode
:digraphs # Shows all digraphs
C-K23 # ⅔
20, 44Tohtml # Converts to html file
vimdiff file1 file2
vim -dO file1 file2
[c # Goes to previous difference
]c # Next
do # Gets changes from other window to curr
dp # Puts changes from curr to other
:diffthis
:diffoff
:mksession mysession.vim # Saves a session
:source mysession.vim # Loads a session
:set sessionoptions= # Adds some options to be saved in session