vim-cheatsheet

To-dos

• Copy and paste
• Text objects
• Navigating through code
• Buffer

Command

• :help <term> - open Vim's help
• :e <path> - edit a file
• :w - save the current file
• :q - quit the current window
• :x - equivalent to :wq

Cursor Movement

Basic

• h - left
• j - down
• k - up
• l - right
• 0 - the start of the line
• $ - the end of the line
• f<char> - next occurence of <char> on current line
• F<char> - previous occurence of <char> on current line
• t<char> - left of f<char>
• T<char> - left of F<char>
• ; - repeat previous [fFtT]
• , - repeat previous [fFtT] backward
• G - the last line
• _G - nth-line
• ^f - move forward a page
• ^b - move backward a page

Word

• w - move forwards to the start of a word
• W - move forwards to the start of a WORD
• e - move forwards to the end of a word
• E - move forwards to the end of a WORD
• b - move backwards to the start of a word
• B - move backwards to the start of a WORD

Other

• % - matching bracket
• { - next paragraph
• } - previous paragraph

Editing

• i - insert before the cursor
• I - insert before first non-blank
• a - insert after current character
• A - insert at the end of the line
• o - insert new line below the cursor and insert text
• O - insert new line above the cursor and insert text
• x - delete character under the cursor
• d<motion> - delete the text for <motion>
• dd - delete a line
• D - delete until the end of the line
• c<motion> - change the text for <motion>
• cc - change the entire line
• C - change the text until the end of the line

Visual Mode

• v - enter visual mode
• Shift+v - enter visual mode linewise
• Ctrl+v - enter visual mode blockwise

Searching

• /pattern - search forward for pattern
• ?pattern - search backward for pattern
• // - search forward using last pattern
• ?? - search backward using last pattern
• * - search forward for current word
• n - repeat the search in same direction
• N - repeat the search in opposite direction
• gd - go to local declaration
• gD - go to global declaration
• :noh - remove search highlighting

Configuration

• set clipboard+=unnamedplus - integrate system clipboard to vim
• set expandtab - automatically replaces tab to spaces on insert mode

Glossary

• word - A word consists of a sequence of letters, digits and underscores, or a sequence of other non-blank characters, separated with white space (spaces, tabs, ). This can be changed with the 'iskeyword' option. An empty line is also considered to be a word.
• WORD - A WORD consists of a sequence of non-blank characters, separated with white space. An empty line is also considered to be a WORD.