130 VIM commands that programmers should know

Since 1970, VI and Vim have become one of the programmer's favorite text editors. 5 years ago, I wrote a question to ask myself "every programmer should know the 100 vim command" This is the previous article of the improved version, I hope you will like.
Basis

: E filename openfilenamefor edition:w Save file:q Exit vim:q! Quit without saving:x Write file (if changes has been made) and Exit:sav filename saves file asfilename. Repeats the last change made in normal mode 5. Repeats 5 made in normal mode

Move through files

K or up ARROW move the "cursor up one line J" or "Arrow move" cursor down one line e move the cursor to the "end of TH" E word B Move the "cursor to" begining of the word 0 move the cursor to the begining of the "line G-move" cursor to th E End of the "line GG" move "cursor to" begining of the "the" the cursor to the "end of" the file:59 move cursor To line59. Replace59by the desired line number. 20| Move cursor to Column20. % move cursor to matching parenthesis [[Jump to function start] [{Jump to block start

Cut, copy, and paste

Y Copy the selected text to clipboard P Paste Clipboard contents dd Cut Current line yy Copy current y$ copy to end O F line D cut to end of line

Search

/word Searchwordfrom bottom? Word searchwordfrom bottom to top * Search the word under cursor/cstring orstring, Case insensitive/jo[ha]n Searchjohnorjoan/< the Search theatre orthen/the> searchtheorbreathe ; The> searchthe/<¦.> Search All words of 4 letters//Searchfredbut Notalfredorfrederick/fred|joe Searchfredorj OE/<dddd> Search exactly 4 digits/^{3} Find 3 empty lines:bufdo/searchstr/search in all open files Bufdo%s/som Ething/somethingelse/g Searchsomethingin all the open buffers and replace it withsomethingelse

Replace

:%s/old/new/g Replace all occurences Ofoldbynewin file:%s/onward/forward/gi replace onward by forward, case unsensitive: %S/OLD/NEW/GC Replace all occurences with confirmation:2,35s/old/new/g replace all occurences between lines 2 and 35:5,$ s/old/new/g Replace all occurences from line 5 to EOF:%s/^/hello/g replace the begining of each line Byhello:%s/$/harry/ G Replace the "End of" Byharry:%s/onward/forward/gi Replaceonwardbyforward, Case unsensitive:%s/*$//g Delete al L White spaces:g/string/d Delete all lines containingstring:v/string/d delete all lines containing which didn ' t contains Tring:s/bill/steve/replace the occurence ofbillbystevein current line:s/bill/steve/g Replacebillbystevein Curren T line:%s/bill/steve/g Replacebillbystevein all the file:%s/^m//g Delete dos carriage Returns (^m):%s///g Transform dos Carriage returns in returns:%s#<[^>]+># #g Delete HTML tags but keeps text:%s/^ (. *) 1$/1/delete lines App Ears twice Ctrl + a IncremeNT number under the cursor ctrl+x decrement number under cursor Ggvgg? Change Text to Rot13

casing

Vu lowercase line vu uppercase line g~~ Invert case VEU Switch Word to uppercase ve~ Modify word CAs e Gggug set all text to lowercase gggug set all text to Uppercase:set ignorecase Ignore case in Searches:set I Gnore case in searches excepted if a uppercase letter is used:%s/<./u&/g Sets ASE:%s/<./l&/g Sets A of each of lowercase:%s/.*/u& Sets Se:%s/.*/l& Sets-lowercase

Read-write file

: 1,10 w outfile saves lines 1 to ten inoutfile:1, Ten W >> outfile appends lines 1 to ten tooutfile:r infile insert the content ofinfile:23r infile insert the content Ofinfileunder Line

File browser

E. Open Integrated File Explorer:sex Split window and open integrated file explorer:sex! Same as:sexbut Split window vertically:browse e graphical file Explorer:ls List buffers:cd. Move to Parent Directory:args List Files:args *.php Open file list:grep expression *.php Returns a list of. php files C Onteningexpression GF Open file name under cursor

Interacting with Unix systems

:!pwd Execute Thepwdunix Command, then returns to Vi!! PWD Execute thepwdunix command and insert output in File:sh temporary returns to Unix $exit Retourns to Vi

Snap To

:%!fmt Align all lines!} FMT Align All lines in the current position 5!! FMT Align the next 5 lines

Tabs/windows

: Tabnew Creates a new tab GT show next Tab:tabfirst show I tab:tablast show last tab:tabm n (position) Rearrange tab S:tabdo%s/foo/bar/g Execute a command in all Tabs:tab ball Puts all open files in tabs:new abc.txt editabc.txtin new W Indow

Split-screen display

: E filename editfilenamein current window:split filename split the windows and OpenFileName ctrl-w up arrow Puts cursor in Top window ctrl-w ctrl-w Puts cursor at next window ctrl-w_ maximize Current window vertically ctrl-w| Maximize current window horizontally ctrl-w= gives the same size to all Windows ctrl-w+ Add lines to current window : Vsplit file Split window Vertically:sview file Same as:splitin readonly mode:hide close Current window:nly Windows, excepted current:b 2 Open #2 in this window

Automatic completion

CTRL + N ctrl+p (in insert mode) Complete Word ctrl+x ctrl+l Complete line:set dictionary=dict definedictas a dictionnary C Trl+x ctrl+k Complete with Dictionnary

Marks

m {A-Z} Marks current position as{a-z} ' {A-Z} move to Position{a-z} ' move to previous position

Abbreviation

: AB Mail mail@provider.org definemailas abbreviation ofmail@provider.org

Text indent

: Set autoindent Turn on Auto-indent:set smartindent Turn on Intelligent auto-indent:set shiftwidth=4 defines 4 spaces as Indent size ctrl-t, ctrl-d indent/un-indent in insert mode >> indent << un-indent =% indent the code between Parenthesis 1gvg= Indent the whole file

Syntax highlighting

: Syntax on Turn on syntax highlighting:syntax out Turn off syntax highlighting:set syntax=perl Force syntax highlighting