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Cheatography

Basic concepts and default key mappings as outlined in the user manual.

Changing modes

<ES­C>
Exit from other modes into NORMAL mode
i/I
Enter INSERT mode, cursor placed before the current charac­ter­/first character in line
a/A
Enter INSERT mode, cursor placed after the current charac­ter/the end of the line
o/O
Creates a new, empty line below/­above the cursor, and enter INSERT mode
v
Enter Visual mode, cursor movement selection
V
Enter Visual mode, line selection
<CTRL>-v
Enter Visual mode, block selection
:
Enter COMMAN­D-LINE mode

NORMAL mode

J
Join line at cursor with line below it
u
Undo last edit
U
Undoes all the changes made on the last line that was edited
p
Put
<CTRL>-r
Reverse the preceding command
ZZ
Writes the file and exits

Operators

y
Copy (Yank)
c
Change (deletes and enters INSERT mode)
d
Delete

Selection

w
Word
W
WORD
s
Sentence
p
Paragraph
[ or ]
[] block
( or ) or b
() block
< or >
<> block
{ or }
{} Block
These are preceded by either i (Inner) or a (as in A word), and the inner ones exclude space and delimiters from the selection

Motions

w/W
Start of the next word/WORD
b/B
Start of the previous word/WORD
e/E
End of the next word/WORD
ge/gE
End of the previous word/WORD
0 or <HOME>
Very first character of the line
^
First non-blank character of the line
$
End of a line (eol)
f/F{char}
Forwar­d/b­ack­wards to character {char}
t/T{char}
Like f/F but stops on character before (To)
%
Matching pair (for parent­hesis, square brackets and squiglies)

Cursor motions

h or <RIGHT>
Right
k or <UP>
Up
j or <DO­WN>
Down
l or <LE­FT>
Left
H
First line on screen (High)
M
Middle line on screen (Middle)
L
Last line on screen (Low)

Scrolling Motions

<CTRL>-u
Scroll half a page up
<CT­RL>-d
Scroll half a page down
<CT­RL>-y
Scroll up one line
<CT­RL>-e
Scroll down one line
<CT­RL>-b
Scroll up (Back) one screen minus 2 lines
<CT­RL>-f
Scroll down (Forward) one screen minus 2 lines
zt
Move cursor line to the top of screen
zz
Move cursor line to middle of screen
zb
Move cursor line to the bottom of screen

Windows

<CTRL>-w w
Jump between the windows
<CT­RL>-w t
Move to the TOP window
<CT­RL>-w b
Move to the BOTTOM window
<CT­RL>-w +
Increase the size of a window
<CT­RL>-w -
Decrease the size of a window
You can also use <CT­RL>-w followed by h, j, k and l to navigate opened windows, and H, J, K and L to move windows around.
  

Shortcuts

s
Change one character
x
Delete character under the cursor
X
Delete character left of the cursor
r
Waits for you to type a character, and will replace the character under the cursor with it
C
Change to the end of line
D
Delete to the end of line
yy
Copy a whole line
cc or S
Change a whole line
dd
Deletes a whole line
.
Repeats the last change (except undo)

VISUAL BLOCK mode

o
Change cursor to the other end of the selection
O
Change corner in block selection
I{string}<Esc>
Inserts the text {string} in each line, to the left of the block
A{string}<Esc>
Inserts the text {string} in each line, to the right of the block
$A{string}<Esc>
Same as A{stri­ng}­<Es­c>, but will append the string in the lines that are shorter
C{string}<Esc>
Deletes the block and then throws you into Insert mode to enable you to type in a string

Search

/{pattern}
Search forwards
?{pattern}
Search backwards
n/N
Move to next/p­revious occurrence
<UP> and <DOWN>
Move through the history of search commands
*
Grab the word under the cursor and search forward
#
grab the word under the cursor and search backwards

Patterns

\
Escape special characters below to look for them
^
Matches the beginning of a line
$
Matches the end of a line
.
Matches any existing character

Substi­tution ranges

No range specified
Current line
%
All lines
{number}
Line
.
First line
$
Last line
- 0r + {number}
Line offset from range boundary
You can use a comma to specify an interval, .,$ means from the first line to the last line. You can also use patterns.

Substi­tution flags

No flag specified
First occurrence in range
g
All ocurrences in range
c
Ask for confir­mation before it performs each substi­tution

COMMAN­D-LINE mode

edit <fi­len­ame>
Edit new file, or load existing
q
Quit
q!
Quit and throw changes away
saveas <filename>
Save contents as <fi­len­ame> and continue editing
file <fi­len­ame>
Change current file name (does not write it)
substitute or s
Find and replace, in the form [range­]su­bst­itu­te/­fro­m/t­o/[­flags] (see substi­tution pannels)

Window commands

new
Open a window on a new, empty file above the current one
split
Open a new window above the current one. If file name is provided, opens a second window and starts editing the given file
close
Close current window
only
Closes all windows, except for the current one
Prepend v in new and split for a vertical split with a new window to the left
 

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