VIM Keybindings - Blog - Christoph J.

Cheat sheet for vim, a terminal based text editor.

Moving

keys / command	function
h	right
j	up
k	down
l	left
w	next word
b	previous word
W	next word space separated
B	previous word space separated
e	end of word
0	start of line
$	end of line
^	first character of line
H	first line on screen
M	line in middle of screen
L	last line on screen
:n <Number>	go to line number
Ctrl + d	move down half page
Ctrl + u	move up half page
}	move down until next blank line
{	move up until next blank line
gg	go to top of page
G	got to bottom of page

keys / command	function
:e <Name>	open file
:w	write changes
:q	quit, wont work if not saved
:q!	quit without saving
:wq	write and quit
:x	save and exit if changes have been made, just quits when nothing changed
:wqa	save all and quit
ZZ	write and quit
ZQ	quit without saving

keys / command	function
~	change case of character
>	indent right
<	indent left
c	cut out highlighted text
y	yank highlighted text
d	delete highlighted text
yy	yank current line
dd	delete and yank current line
p	insert text after cursor
P	insert text before cursor
x	delete character under cursor
X	delete character before cursor

keys / command	function
i	enter insert mode, insert before cursor
I	insert at start of line
a	append after cursor
A	append at end of line
o	new line below
O	new line above
C	change rest of line
r	overwrite single character
R	insert mode but for replacing

keys / command	function
/<pattern>	look for pattern forward
?<pattern>	look for pattern backwards
n	next match
N	previous match
:%s/<old>/<new>/gn	replace old with new
:%s/<old>/<new>/gc	replace old with new, needs confirmation
f <char>	move forward to next char
F <char>	move back to char
t <char>	move forward in front of char
T <char>	move back before char

This list might be expanded