This is not a good place to learn how to use or about the vim editor -- if you are starting with vim try here and here -- This is not even a good ,yet another, vim cheat-sheet.
It is just a list of stuff that I like about vim and I think that you should know if you are using vim to write programs.
On the table below I call:
the Normal Mode NMode:,
the Insert Mode IMode:,
the Command Mode : ,
the Visual Mode VMode.
For More on modes
:h vim-modes
| #g0 vim favorites | |
| >> | NMode: Moves current line one Tab to the right. |
| << | NMode: Moves current line one Tab to the left. |
| J | NMode: Joins current line with the next line. |
| ~ | NMode: Flip the case of the current (under the cursor) letter |
| $ | NMode: Jump to the last character of the line |
| 0 | NMode: Jump to the first column of the line |
| Ctrl+P | IMode: Keyword Completion - Previous Matching Words First |
| Ctrl+N | IMode: Keyword Completion - Next Matching Words First |
| Ctrl+x Ctrl+l | IMode: Line Completion - Complete with previous Matching Line |
| Ctrl+V | NMode: Enter Vertical Visual Mode. Select Vertical-Visual Block using the arrows |
| I | VMode: Insert Text Before the selected Visual Block |
| x | VMode: Delete the selected Visual Block |
| s | VMode: Replace the selected Visual Block with some other text |
| :u | : Undo |
| Ctrl+r | NMode: Undo Undo |
| . | NMode: Repeat Previous Command |
| :! | : See out of External Command entered after ! |
| :r! | : Insert output of the external command entered after ! |
| / | NMode: Search Forward - use n to repeat search forward and N to repeat search backward |
| ? | NMode: Search Backward - use n to repeat search backward and N to repeat search forward |
| Ctrl+a | NMode: Increment by 1 the current (under the cursor) number |
| Ctrl+x | NMode: Decrement by 1 the current (under the cursor) number |
| :set cindent | : Enable Automatic Indentation ( good in default but configurable :h C-indenting ) |
| :set ingnorecase | : Ignore Case in Following Searches |
| :set noingnorecase | : Do Case Sensitive Search in Following Searches |
| :set wildmenu | : Command Tab Completion - Show Possible Commands |
| :%s/old/new/g | : Search and Replace Globally |
| :%s/old/new/cg | : Search and Ask Before Replacing Globally |
| :s/old/new/g | VMode: Search and Replace In the Selected Area Globally |
| :set showmatch | : Higlight Matching { ( [ |
| :set spell | : Enable Spell Checking |
| :set nospell | : Disable Spell Checking |
| Ctrl+x Ctrl+k | IMode: Dictionary Lookup of current word |
| :set number on | : Show Line Cumbers |
| :set nonumber | : Hide Line Cumbers |
| :setlocal spell spelllang=el | : Set Spell Checking Dictionary to el.utf-8.spl (Greek) |
| vim -d file1 file2 fileN | Command Line: Vim Diff files file1 file2 fileN |
| mn | NMode: Mark register n ( the xy position under the cursor ) |
| `n | NMode: Jump to the register n marked earlier with mn |
| :sp | : Show file in two subwindows |
| :sp filename | : Open file filename in a subwindow |
| Ctrl+w Ctrl+w | NMode: Jump to other subwindow |
| Ctrl+wq | NMode: Quit a subwindow |
| y | VMode: yank - copy - Save selected text |
| d | VMode: delete selected text |
| > | VMode: move selected text to the right |
| < | VMode: move selected text to the left |
| ~ | VMode: flip case of selected text |
| p | NMode: paste - saved-yanked text after the cursor |
| :w filename | : Save file subwindow etc to filename |
Also available in plain ascii
$ wget kod.ipduh.com/lib/g0-vi-cheatsheet.txt
url: vim favorites
