notes

Vim

Table of content

• Table of content
• Common
• Code navigation
• Go To
• Code editing
• Deleting
• Copying and Pasting
• Find
• Multiple Edition
• Searching
• Find and replace

Common

1. . - repeat last command
2. v - go to visual mode
3. :w - save
4. :q - quit
5. u - undo
6. ctrl + r - redo
7. :help - help

Code navigation

1. h - one character left
2. l - one character right
3. j - one character down
4. k - one character up
5. w - moves forward to the start of next word
6. e - moves forward to the end of the next (current) word
7. b - moves back to beginning of the word
8. *nw - moves through n to the begining of the nth line
9. % - jump to the next matching parenthesis

Go To

1. :10 - go to line 10
2. gg - go to begining of a file
3. G - go to the end of a file

Code editing

1. i - go to the edit mode under cursor
2. a - go to the edit mode starting with next character to cursort
3. A - go to the end of line and start edit mode
4. o - insert new line after the current
5. O - insert new line before the current
6. r - replace one character and not go to edit mode
7. s - delete charcter under cursor and enter edit mode
8. cc - delete current line and go to edit mode
9. cw- delete next word and go to edit mode
10. :m line_number or +\- number - moves current line
    • :m +1 - move line one line down
    • :m 12 - move current line to 12 line
11. 30itext + esc - inserts word text 30 times

Deleting

1. d$ - deletes from current position to the end of line
2. d^ - deletes from current backward to first non-white-space character
3. d0 - deletes from current backward to begining of line
4. dw - deletes current to end of current word (including trailing space)
5. dd - cuts whole line
6. db deletes current to begining of current word
7. x - removes character under the cursor
8. X - removes one character left to the cursor

Copying and Pasting

1. p - past from buffer
2. yy - yank next line to buffer
3. 10yy - yank next 10 lines to buffer

Find

1. fa - finds the next occurences of a
2. * - finds the next occurence of the word
3. # - finds the previous occurence of the word
4. / - search a word
   • n - go to next occurence
   • N - go to previous occurence

Multiple Edition

1. Go to visual mode ctrl + v
2. Select necessary lines
3. Go to edit mode shift i
4. Write something
5. Press esc twice

Searching

1. To set word boundaries during search use /<pattern/>

Find and replace

1. Everywhere:

    :%s/old/new/g
   

2. In the selected text

   • select text with ctrl+V

   • then type :

    '<,'>s/old/new/g