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Introduction Exiting Exiting insert mode

:q Close file Esc / <C-[> Exit insert mode

Vim is a very efficient text editor. This reference was
made for Vim 8.0.
:qa Close all files <C-C> Exit insert mode, and abort
For shortcut notation, see :help key-notation. current command
:w Save

:wq / :x Save and close file

ZZ Save and quit

:q! / ZQ Quit without checking changes

Editing

Editing Clipboard Visual mode

a Append x Delete character v Enter visual mode

A Append from end of line dd Delete line (Cut) V Enter visual line mode

i Insert yy Yank line (Copy) <C-V> Enter visual block mode

In visual mode
o Next line p Paste

d / x Delete selection
O Previous line P Paste before

s Replace selection
s Delete char and insert "*p / "+p Paste from system clipboard
y Yank selection (Copy)
S Delete line and insert "*y / "+y Paste to system clipboard

C Delete until end of line and insert See Operators for other things you can do.

r Replace one character

R Enter Replace mode

Find & Replace
u Undo changes
:%s/foo/bar/g Replace foo with bar in whole
<C-R> Redo changes document

Navigating

Directions Character Window

h j k l Arrow keys fc Go forward to character c zz Center this line

<C-U> / <C-D> Half-page up/down Fc Go backward to character c zt Top this line

<C-B> / <C-F> Page up/down zb Bottom this line

H Move to top of screen

Document
M Move to middle of screen
Words gg First line
L Move to bottom of screen
b / w Previous/next word G Last line

ge / e Previous/next end of word :{number} Go to line {number}

{number}G Go to line {number} Search

{number}j Go down {number} lines n Next matching search pattern

Line
{number}k Go up {number} lines N Previous match
0 (zero) Start of line
* Next whole word under cursor
^ Start of line (after whitespace)
# Previous whole word under cursor
$ End of line

Operators

Usage Operators list Examples

d Delete
Operators let you operate in a range of text (defined by Combine operators with motions to use them.
motion). These are performed in normal mode.
y Yank (copy)
dd (repeat the letter) Delete
d w c Change (delete then insert) current line

Operator Motion > Indent right dw Delete to next word

< Indent left db Delete to beginning of word

= Autoindent 2dd Delete 2 lines

g~ Swap case dip Delete a text object (inside

paragraph)
gU Uppercase
(in visual mode) d Delete selection
gu Lowercase
See: :help motion.txt
! Filter through external program

See :help operator

Text objects

Usage Text objects Examples

p Paragraph vip Select paragraph

Text objects let you operate (with an operator) in or
around text blocks (objects).
w Word vipipipip Select more

v i p s Sentence yip Yank inner paragraph

Operator [i]nside or [a]round Text object [ ( { < A [], (), or {} block yap Yank paragraph (including newline)

' " ` A quoted string dip Delete inner paragraph

b A block [( cip Change inner paragraph

B A block in [{
See Operators for other things you can do.

t A XML tag block

Diff

gvimdiff file1 file2 [file3] See

differences
between files,
in HMI

Misc

Tab pages Marks

:tabedit [file] Edit file in a new tab `^ Last position of cursor in insert mode

:tabfind [file] Open file if exists in new tab `. Last change in current buffer

:tabclose Close current tab `" Last exited current buffer

:tabs List all tabs `0 In last file edited

:tabfirst Go to first tab '' Back to line in current buffer where jumped from

:tablast Go to last tab `` Back to position in current buffer where jumped from

:tabn Go to next tab `[ To beginning of previously changed or yanked text

:tabp Go to previous tab `] To end of previously changed or yanked text

`< To beginning of last visual selection

`> To end of last visual selection

Folds
ma Mark this cursor position as a
zo / zO Open
`a Jump to the cursor position a
zc / zC Close
'a Jump to the beginning of the line with position a
za / zA Toggle
d'a Delete from current line to line of mark a
zv Open folds for this line
d`a Delete from current position to position of mark a
zM Close all
c'a Change text from current line to line of a
zR Open all
y`a Yank text from current position to position of a
zm Fold more (foldlevel += 1)
:marks List all current marks
zr Fold less (foldlevel -= 1)
:delm a Delete mark a
zx Update folds
:delm a-d Delete marks a, b, c, d
Uppercase ones are recursive (eg, zO is open recursively).
:delm abc Delete marks a, b, c

Navigation
Misc
% Nearest/matching {[()]}
. Repeat last command

[( [{ [< Previous ( or { or <

]p Paste under the current indentation level

]) Next
:set ff=unix Convert Windows line endings to Unix line endings

[m Previous method start

[M Previous method end

Command line

<C-R><C-W> Insert current word into the command line

Jumping
<C-R>" Paste from “ register

<C-O> Go back to previous location

<C-X><C-F> Auto-completion of path in insert mode

<C-I> Go forward

gf Go to file in cursor
Text alignment

:center [width]
Counters :right [width]
:left

<C-A> Increment number

See :help formatting
<C-X> Decrement

Windows Calculator

z{height}<Cr> Resize pane to {height} lines tall <C-R>=128/2 Shows the result of the division : ‘64’

Do this in insert mode.

Tags

:tag Classname Jump to first definition of Classname Exiting with an error

<C-]> Jump to definition

:cq
:cquit
g] See all definitions

<C-T> Go back to last tag Works like :qa, but throws an error. Great for aborting Git commands.

<C-O> <C-I> Back/forward

:tselect Classname Find definitions of Classname

Spell checking
:tjump Classname Find definitions of Classname (auto-select 1st)
:set spell spelllang=en_us Turn on US English spell checking

]s Move to next misspelled word after the cursor

Case
[s Move to previous misspelled word before the
~ Toggle case (Case => cASE) cursor

gU Uppercase z= Suggest spellings for the word under/after the

cursor
gu Lowercase
zg Add word to spell list
gUU Uppercase current line (also gUgU)
zw Mark word as bad/misspelling
guu Lowercase current line (also gugu)
zu / C-X (Insert Mode) Suggest words for bad word under cursor
from spellfile
Do these in visual or normal mode.

See :help spell

Also see

Vim cheatsheet (vim.rotrr.com)

Vim documentation (vimdoc.sourceforge.net)

Interactive Vim tutorial (openvim.com)

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