vim.md

vim Cheat Sheet 💩

Tend to forget simple commands that I don't use so much and for improved productivity decided to write them down.

Moving around

gg beginning of file

GG beginning of end of file

$ end of line

^ beginning of line

g_ last non-whitespace character

g$ end of screen

Show hidden characters

:set list shows

:set nolist hides hidden characters

Show line numbers

set number

set nonumber

Delete (a) word(s)

dw deletes word starting from cursor

daw deletes a whole word

df deletes from cursor until next space or any other char instead of space, e.g.:

df. deletes whole sentence, until the dot.

Change a word

caw changes a word (deletes and puts into insert mode)

Change in range

:5,12s/foo/bar/g Change each 'foo' to 'bar' for all lines from line 5 to line 12 (inclusive).

Delete every other line

E.g. when copying from a table and editor parses second row onto a new line.

Works like this: :[range]g/pattern/cmd

To delete all even lines:

:g/^/+d

To delete all odd lines this guy states:

:gg/^/+dd (?)

Delete line this many times

gg qq cursor down & dd q 10@q

TODO:

• Figure out how to delete all odd lines.