Summary of common Vim commands

Summary of common Vim commands

It's not long to use Vim, but now we can't do without the familiar Vim editing mode. The learning curve of Vim is very steep. At the beginning of learning, it is often discouraged to remember many operation commands.

In fact, as long as you remember some common commands, and insist on using Vim for editing in your work, you will soon be able to be handy.

Cursor Movement)

Command	Role (explanation)
h,j,k,l	hIndicates to left,jIndicates down,kIndicates to the right,lIndicates going up
Ctrl+f	Previous Page
Ctrl+b	Next Page
w,e,W,E	Jump to the end of a word. lowercase letters include punctuation.
b,B	The cursor jumps forward in units of words, with punctuation in lower case
O	Open a new row
^	Start of a row
$	End of a row
gg	The first line of the document
[N]G	The Nth or last line of the document

Insert Mode)

Command	Role (explanation)
i	Insert to front of the cursor
I	Insert to the beginning of a row
a	Insert to the end of the cursor
A	Insert to the last position of the row
o,O	New Line
Esc	Disable insert mode

Editing)

Command	Role (explanation)
r	Replace a character with the cursor in insert mode
J	Merge the next row to the previous row
s	Deletes a character from the cursor. The cursor is still in the row.
S	Delete the row where the cursor is located. The cursor is still in the row, different fromdd
u	Undo the previous operation
ctrl+r	Restore the previous operation
.	Repeat the last command
~	Convert to uppercase
[N]>>	One or N rows move a tab to the right
[N]<<	Move one or N rows to the left

Disable (Exiting)

Command	Role (explanation)
:w	Save
:wq,:x	Save and close
:q	Close (saved)
:q!	Force close

Search)

Command	Role (explanation)
/pattern	Search (non-insert mode)
?pattern	Search back
n	The cursor arrives at the previous target of the search result.
N	The cursor reaches the next target of the search result.

Visual Mode)

Command	Role (explanation)
v	Select one or more characters
V	Select a row

Cut and Paste)

Command	Role (explanation)
dd	Delete a row
dw	Delete a word
x	Delete the last character
X	Delete the previous character
D	Delete the last character of a row
[N]yy	Copy one or N rows
yw	Copy a word
p	Paste

Window operations

Command	Role (explanation)
:split	Split a window horizontally
:vsplit	Vertically split a window
:close	Close Window
Ctrl+W	Switch window,hTo the left window,jIn the window below,kIn the window above,lTo the right

For more Vim tutorials, see the following:

Build VIM into a simple and practical IDE

Vim Learning Guide

Quick learn Vi Editor

Powerful Vim Editor

Build a Vim Development Environment on CentOS 6.2

Install the highlighted Vim editing tool in CentOS 5.4

Vim tips: C language settings

Set the Vim row number in Ubuntu

Vim editor basic tutorial

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