Vim command cheat list
My Vim Manual
Sorry Vim. I have used you many times, for a long time.
But I did not understand you deeply.
Now it is time to do it.
File open/close
- Open new file: :e file_path
- Save as a new file: :w file_path
- open file with finding file. : :find file_path [enter] at directory. and search manually.
Moving page
- Forward: Ctrl+]
- Back: Ctrl+t or Ctrl+o
- Enable mouse to jump: :set mouse=a => Enable mouse to jump for only xterm and GUI.
Moving cursor
- N moving key, such as 3, j => Move 3 to buttom.
- Top of line: ^
- End of line: $
- Middle of line: gm
- Find and go to char position: N f{char}
- Move to line N: N G, or :N (default last line)
- Move to line N: N gg, or :N (default first line)
- Word forward: N w
- Word forward (blank skip): N W
- Move to Middle of v lines: M
- Move to Nth line from the buttom. : N L
- Paging down: Ctrl+f
- Paging up: Ctrl+b
- Paging down (1/2 window): Ctrl+
- Paging up (1/2 window): Ctrl+u
- Current line at top of window. : zt
- Current line at center of window. : zz
- Current line at buttom of window. : zb
Inserting text
- Insert to new line below N line of current line: o
- Insert to new line above N line of current line: O
- Insert the contents of [file]: :r [file]
- Insert the contents of {command}: :r! {command}
Changing text
- Change N words: c N w
- Change N lines: [N] S
Replacing text
- :s/{pattern}/{string}/[g][c]
Pattern Search
- Repeat last search: /
Marks and motions
- Do mark: m{a-zA-Z}
Below in the case of mark character: "a".
- Move to mark: ma
- Print marks lines: :marks
Tags
Print tag list: :tags
Moving page
- Forward: Ctrl+]
- Back: Ctrl+t
Key mapping
- map {lhs} {rhs}: map {lhs} to {rhs} in Normal and Visual mode.
- map! {lhs} {rhs}: map {lhs} to {rhs} in Insert and Command mode.
Split Window
windows.txt
vim -o file1 fileN
Open N files by N windows
vim -o2 file1 fileN
Open N files by 2 windows
- Split: Ctrl+w, s or :split
- Vertical Split: Ctrl+w, v or :vsplit
- Split and New: Ctrl+w, n or :new
- Virtically Split and New: :vnew
- Split and View (read only) {file}: :sview {file}
- List buffers: :ls
- Delete buffer: :bd or :bw
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1269648/how-do-i-close-a-single-buffer-out-of-many-in-vim
- Move button: Ctrl+w, j
- Move top: Ctrl+w, j
- Move left: Ctrl+w, h
- Move right: Ctrl+w, l
- Move below/right: Ctrl+w, w
- Move above/left: Ctrl+w, W
- Rotate windows: Ctrl+w, r
- Exchange current window with next one.: Ctrl+w, x
Window resizing
- Equal: Ctrl+w, =
- Smaller: Ctrl+w, [N]-
- Bigger: Ctrl+w, [N]+
- Change N lines of the window: Ctrl+w, [N]_
Argument and buffer list commands
- :ls
- :buffers
- display number of buffer: :args
- :bn or :bN
- Open buffer N: :buffer N
Tab Page
- New tab: :tabnew file_name
- Next tab: gt
- Prev tab: gT
Visual mode
later
Reference
- Vim help main: Vim documentation: help
- Vim Quick Reference: vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/quickref.html
