Editing Text

• Entering Text
  • a append after cursor
  • A append at end of line
  • $a append at end of line
  • i insert before cursor
  • I insert at beginning of line
  • _i insert at beginning of line
  • o open line below cursor
  • O open line above cursor
  • cm change text (m is movement)
• Cut, Copy, Paste (Working w/buffers)
  • dm delete (m is movement)
  • dd delete current line
  • D delete to end of line
  • d$ delete to end of line
  • x delete char under cursor
  • X delete char before cursor
  • ym yank to buffer(m is movement)
  • yy yank to buffer current line
  • Y yank to buffer current line
  • p paste from buffer after cursor
  • P paste from buffer before cursor
  • "bdd cut line into named buffer b (a..z)
  • "bp paste from named buffer b
• Searching and Replacing
  • /w search forward for w
  • ?w search backward for w
  • /w/+n search forward for w and move down n lines
  • n repeat search (forward)
  • N repeat search (backward)
  • :s/old/new replace next occurence of old with new
  • :s/old/new/g replace all occurences on the line
  • :x,ys/old/new/g replace all occurences from line x to line y
  • :%s/old/new/g relpace all occurences in file
  • :%s/old/new/gc replace all occurences in file with confirmation
• Miscellaneous
  • n>m indent n lines (m is movement)
  • n<m un-indent left n lines (m is movement)
  • . Repeat last command
  • U undo changes on current line
  • u undo last command
  • J join end of line with next line
  • :rf insert text from external file f
  • ^G show status

VI Movement Reference

• By Character
  • h - left
  • j - down
  • k - up
  • l - right
• By Line
  • nG to line n
  • 0 first position on line
  • $ last position on line
  • ^ first non-whitespace char on line
  • _ first non-whitespace char on line
  • + first char on next line
  • - first char on prev line
• By Screen
  • ^F scroll forward one full screen
  • ^B scroll backward one full screen
  • ^D scroll forward one half screen
  • ^U scroll backard one half screen
  • ^E show one more line at bottom
  • ^Y show one more line at top
  • L go to bottom of the screen
  • z enter position line with cursor at top
  • z. position line with cursor at middle
  • z- position line with cursor at bottom
• Marking position on screen
  • mp mark current position as p (a..z)
  • ‘p move to position p
  • ’p move to first non-whitespace on line with mark p
• Miscellaneous movement
  • fm forward to charr m
  • Fm backward to charr m
  • tm forward to char before m
  • Tm backward to char after m
  • w move to next word (stops at punctuation)
  • W move to next word (skip punctuation)
  • b move to prev word (stops at punctuation)
  • B move to prev word (skip punctuation)
  • e end of word (punctuation not part of word)
  • E end of word (punctuation part of word)
  • ), next sentence
  • (, prev sentence
  • ]], next section
  • [[, prev section
  • }, next paragraph
  • {, prev paragraph
  • % go to matchin parenthesis () {} []