vim - the perfect cheat sheet

15 April 2005

Please let me know how you get on, also let me know if you have improvements, the idea should be that it would fit onto an A4 sheet. So anything added has to replace something else. I will come back to this page with updates from time to time.

Command Mode ESC Insert Mode i

Movement commands

h, j, k, l left, down, up, right w, W, b, B forward, backward by word H highest line of the screen M middle line of the screen L lowest line of the screen Ctrl-F forward one screen Ctrl-B backward one screen Ctrl-D halfway down (i.e. forward) the screen Ctrl-U halfway up (i.e. back) the screen 0 (zero), $ start, end of current line

Inserting text

a append after cursor i insert before cursor A append to end of line I insert at start of line o open a line below current line O open a line above current line r replace char

Delete text

x current character dh previous character dw current word db previous word dd entire line d$ to end of line d0 (zero) to start of line ndd next n lines

Undelete

p insert after cursor P insert before cursor

Goto line

:linenumber nG Goto line n :7 Goto line 7

Save and exit

ZZ write if changes and quit :wq write and quit :w filename save to new file :q! quit vi

/pattern

forward for a pattern

System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 64)

Option list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

?pattern backward for a pattern n repeat previous search N repeat previous search in reverse direction

Search and replace

Example:

Search from current line and replace first occurance

System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 73)

Bullet list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

:s/search_string/replace_string/ * Search from current line and replace all matches :s/search_string/replace_string/g * Search from every line, replace confirmation (with [y]es) :%s/search_string/replace_string/gc :1,$s/search_string/replace_string/gc * Search lines from 10 to 20 :10,20s/search_string/replace_string/g

Undo

u the latest change U all changes on a line

Concatenate J concatenate two lines

1 Madison says...

There is a great post by a Command Line Warrior about Vi, I put a print out on my wall next to my pc.

Posted at 7:26 a.m. on February 28, 2006

2 NaturalRandom says...

Not to slight your efforts, but I found this to be much better and printable http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/Vi%20Reference%20Card

Of course, credit goes to http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/indexe.html.

Posted at 2:59 a.m. on October 4, 2006

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