Vim Note

Quick guide for Vim 🦾

Quit 🏃

• :w save file,but don't quit
• :wq write quit
• :x same as :wq
• q! quit without save
• ZZ save file and quit

Cursor movement 🛫

• H move to top of screen
• M move to middle of screen
• L move to bottom of screen
• w jump forwards to the start of a word
• e jump forwards to the end of a word
• 0 go to start of line
• $ go to end of line
• b go to previous word
• gg first line of file
• GG last line of file
• { jump to next paragraph
• } jump tp previous paragraph
• zz center cursor on screen
• ctrl-d move foward 1/2 screen
• ctrl-u move back 1/2 screen

Insert mode 🔌

• i insert before the cursor
• I insert at the beginning of the line
• a insert (append) after the cursor
• A insert (append) at the end of the line
• o append (open) a new line below the current line
• O append (open) a new line above the current line
• Ctrl-o
  In insert mode, Ctrl-o escapes user to do one normal-mode command, and then return to the insert mode. The same effect can be achieved by <ESC>ing to normal mode, doing the single command and then entering back to insert mode.
  Eg : Ctrl-o a go to outside of the bracket

Short cut 🔪

• ctrl-p auto compelete previous words (ctrl-p for previous , ctrl-n for next)

Search & Replace 👀

• /Word search for 'Word'
• n move to next 'Word'
• N move to previous 'Word'
• noh[lsearch] remove highlighting of search matches
• replace all abcd to 1234 in current line

:s/abcd/1234/g

• relace all abce to 1234 in this file

:%s/abcd/1234/g

• replace all abcd to 1234 in [5,12] line

:5,12s/abcd/1234/g

Visual mode 🗳

• v Visual
• V Visual Line
• aw mark a word
• a( mark a block with ()
• a{ mark a block with {}
• a[ mark a block with []
• a< mark a block with <>
• i( mark a inner block with ()

same as {} , [] ,<>, etc..

Cut & Paste 🔪

• yy yank (copy) a line
• p paste

Editing ✍️

• u undo
• ctrl-r redo
• r replace a single character.
• R replace more than one character, until ESC is pressed.
• J join line below to the current one with one space in between
• c stand for change (delete and move to insert mode )
• C change to end

Window 🖥

• sp file_name open a file in a new buffer and split window
• :term open terminal in split window
• vert edit all buffers as vertical windows
  Eg: vert sp a.cpp
• below opem windows below
  Eg: below term
• ctrl-ww switch windows
• ctrl-wh switch to left windows (vertical split)
• ctrl-wl switch to right windows (vertical split)
• ctrl-wj switch to windows below(horizontal split)
• ctrl-wk switch to windows above(horizontal split)
• ctrl-wx exchange current window with next one
• resize 20 resize height of window ,change the height to 20 rows.
• res 20 short cut of resize
• res +5 ,res -5 increase/decrease height
• vert res 30 resize the width of window
  :Eg :term ctrl-wx res 35,open terminal and switch window ,resize window of Vim in to height of 35 rows.
• bd buffer delete(close file)
• ctrl \ n go to normal mode in terminal ( i for go back to terminal )

Tab 🫙

• tab sp file_name open file in new tab
• :tabs list all tabs including their displayed windows
• tabn , gt go to next tab
• tabp , gT go to previous tab
• ctrl-PgDn , Ctrl-PgUp switch tabs

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