Vim Cheat Sheet

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Moving  Marks  Modifying Text  (cont)

 k Make mark m[a-​zA-Z] Paste text after cursor p

j Paste text before cursor P

 Go to line with mark '[a-​zA-Z]
 h Go to actual column mark `[a-zA-Z] If you copy an entire line, p will paste the whole
line below the current line and P will do the
 l :marks Show marks
same above.
Move Forward One "Word" w
The marks A-Z are stored between files.
Forward to Whitespace W
the marks a-z are only in that single file. Text Objects 
Move Forward to End of "Word" e So two files can have different marks a
Same but to Whitespace E but there can only be one A mark. A word (arround something) a<motion/char>

Move Backward one word (start) b Inner word (inside something) i<motion/char>

Move Backward to whitespace B Inserting Text 

The text objects can be used with text
Page Down One Page <Ctrl-f> Insert before current position i modifying commands, like d, c, y, and p. ciw will
Insert at beginning of line (first I change the inner word (keep whites​pace) and
Page Up One Page <Ctrl-b>
char) wait for text in insert mode.
These can be used with text objects and repeat modifiers For more inform​ation see :help text-o​bjects
Insert after current position a
ie 2j will move down 2 lines instead of one, 3w will move
Insert at the end of line A
3 "​wor​ds" forward, etc.
Visual Mode 
Insert new line below current line o

Moving Advanced  Insert new line above current line O Enter Visual Mode v

Read Text from <so​urc​e> :r Enter Visual Block Mode <Ct​rl-​v>

Move to End of Line $
(source can be a file or file.txt Enter Visual Line Mode <​Shi​ft-​v>
Move to beginning of Line (first character) ^ command)
Visual mode accepts commands like d, c, y,
Move to beginning of line 0
and p after text has been selected.
Modifying Text 
Move to top of file gg

Move to bottom of file G Delete one char x Searching 

Delete one char to left X
Move to line <num> <num>G 6G Search forward /
Delete text to motion d<mo​tio​n
Find next occurrence of <char> f<char> Search backward ?
>
Find previous occurrence of <char> F<char>
Move to next search result n
Change text to motion c<mo​tio​n
'Till the next occurence of <char> t<char> Move to previous search N
'Till the previous occurrence of <char> T<char> >
Match whole word \<text\>
Move cursor to matching pair () {} [] % Delete single line dd
Regex searching ^$.
Move cursor to top of screen H (Home) Change entire line cc | S
Search forward the word under the *
Move cursor to middle of screen M Delete to end of line D
cursor
Move cursor to bottom of screen L (Last) Change to the end of line C
Search backward the word under the #
Re-pos​ition cursor to the top zt Replace single character at r<ch​ar> cursor
cursor
Re-pos​ition cursor to the middle zz Escape regex chars with \
Enter insert mode but replace R
Re-pos​ition cursor to bottom zb
text
Registers
You can repeat the commands with f and t using ; for
Copy text to motion y<m​oti​on
forward repeat and , for backwards repeat Access register "​[a-z]
>
Append to register "​[A-Z]
Copy line yy

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 Vim Cheat Sheet
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Macros 

Start recording macro q[a-z]

Execute recorded macro @[a-z]

Execute last used macro @@

Files 

Save file :w

Save and Quit :wq

Edit a new file :e filename

Save copy of file :w filename.copy

Save copy and edit copy of file :saveas filename.copy

Change name of the current file :file filename

Use ! to override warnings about saving files. Like if you type

:q without saving changes Vim will warn you about this. But if
you really want to discard your changes use :q!

Files Advanced  

Open file in a split window :split filename

Open file in a vertically split window :vsplit filename

Open file in a new tab :tabedit filename

Move to window <Ct​rl-​w><​mot​ion>

Move to next tab gt

Move to previous tab gT

Move current window to tab <Ctrl-W>T

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