The VIM Cheatsheet

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The VIM Cheatsheet

https://vim-adventures.com/

https://eax.me/vim-commands/

Most of commands accept number before (eg: 3k moves down 3 times)

modes

• i - insert mode
• v - visual, used for text selection

views

• :open X - Open file
• :ter[minal] - Open terminal
• ctrl+w v - Split screen horizontally
• ctrl+w s - Split vertically
• ctrl+w l/h/j/k - Switch to right/left/up/down side
• ctrl+w L/H/J/K - Switch to panel to right/left/up/down
• ctrl+w </> - Resize panel width
• ctrl+w +/- - Resize panel height

visual mode commands

• v - Go to visual mode
• y - Copy text
• d - delete selection
• x - cut selection
• p, P - paste selection before/after custor (or i in Command mode)
• dw - delete word
• V - select line
• cw - change word
• C - change whole line
• D - Delete rest of line from cursor

navigate

• j, k - ⬆️ ⬇️
• h, l - ⬅️ ➡️
• 0, $ - Go to Start/End of the line
• w, W (or e, E, B) - Move by word
• b - Back to word
• gg - Go to end
• G - Go to end

commands

• u - ↩️ Undo
• . - 🔁 Repeat last command
• Ndd - ❌ Delete N lines
• x - ❌ Delete char
• o - ↵ Add a new line
• A - Insert at the line end

search and replace

• /text - 🔍 search for text
• ?text - Search top
• n, N - Go to next/previous search result
• :%s/str/rep - Replace str with rep
• 10G - Go to line 10

bookmarks

• mx - Create a mark with name x (mark this position)
• 'x - Jump to mark x

view & layout

• :split FILE_NAME - Split vertically and open file

macros

• q1 - Start macros with number 1 (basically record and replay commands)
• q - Stop macro record
• @1 - Call macros 1 (or 10@1 to run 10 times)

a few ways to get out of Vim

• ZZ, :q!, :!kill -9 $PPID