Vim

Movement

• w start of next word, W to after next white-space character, b start of previous word, e end of next word.
• 0 begining of the line, $ end of the line.
• I Insert text at begining of the line, A Append text at the end of the line
• gg go to top first line of file, G go to last line.
• H go to first line in screen, M go to middle line, L go to last line in screen.
• :set number In normal mode, go to particular line number.
• Ctrl-y Moves screen up one line
• Ctrl-e Moves screen down one line
• Ctrl-u Moves cursor & screen up half page
• Ctrl-d Moves cursor & screen down half page
• Ctrl-b Moves screen up full page & cursor to last line
• Ctrl-f Moves screen up full page & cursor to first line
• ( Move forward one sentence, ) Move backward one sentence
• { Move forward one paragraph, } Move backward one paragraph
• zz move current line to middle of screen
• zt move current line to top
• zb move current line to bottom
• f<character> move to next , F<character> move to previous character
• ; to repeat operation, , to repeat operation in opposite direction

Inset text in multi-line

1. Ctrl-V to enter visual mode.
2. Select the lines of text to edit.
3. Shift-i to insert start of all lines, Shift-a to append at the end of all lines.
4. Esc.

Change to all UPPERCASE or lowercase

1. Highlight lines
2. Shift+u to change all to UPPERCASE or u to change to lowercase

Copy / Cut / Paste

1. Move cursor to starting character.
2. v to select character, or V to select whole line.
3. Move cursor to end character.
4. d delete/cut, or y yank/copy.
5. Move to where to paste
6. p to paste after cursor, or P paste before cursor.

• yy or Y yank current line
• y$ yank to end of line
• yiw yank current word
• yaw yank current word + whitespace
• ytx yank to character x (before x)
• yfx yank to character x (including x)

Undo / Redo

• u undo last change.
• U undo all changes in a line or restore Line.
• Ctrl-R or :redo redo to reverse an undo.
• 4u undo last 4 changes.
• 4Ctrl-R redo last 4 undos.
• . repeat last command.

Search

• /foo search for "foo"
  • Esc to cancel and Enter to search
  • n to search forward and N to search backwords
• In normal mode, * search forward for the word cursor is on, # search backwards.

Search / Replace

• :%s/foo/bar/g find "foo" and replace with "bar" in all lines
• :s/foo/bar/g find "foo" and replace with "bar" in current line

Tags

1. Cursor to tag
2. Ctrl-V to enter visual mode.
   • at to highlight matching tags including content.
   • it to highlight only content.
3. o to toggle between start and end.

• cs'" to change surrunding ' to ".
• cst<div> change surrounding tag to
• ds' to delete surrunding '`'
• ysaptli> to surround a paragrpah with an <li> tag (ys{motion}{char})
• Highlight text and S{char or tag} to surround text