Use of Vim

Three modes of VIM:

• Command mode

  ESC enters in any mode

• Edit mode

  Command mode--"edit mode"

  • I: Before the character of the current cursor

  • A: After the character of the current cursor

  • O: Create a new row below the line where the current cursor is located

  • I: At the beginning of the line where the cursor is currently located

  • A: At the end of the line where the current cursor is located

  • O: Create a new row above the line where the current cursor is located

• Visualization mode

  Command mode, press V to enter

• In non-edit mode, Ctrl + V
  

Basic operations

• Open File

  Vim/path/to/somefile

  • Vim +#: Open the file and locate it on line #
  • Vim +: Open the file and navigate to the last line
  • Vim +/pattern: Open the file and navigate to the beginning of the line that was first matched to the PATTERN

• Close File

  Command-line mode

  : Q exit

  : Wq Save and exit

  : q! Do not save and exit

  : W Save

  : w! Forcibly saved

  : Wq---: X

  : Save SaveAs as

• Move cursor

  • Character-by-word movement

    H: Left L: Right J: down K: Upper

  • Move in a word unit

    W: Move to the beginning of the next word

    E: Jumps to the ending of the current or next word

    B: Jump to the beginning of the current or previous word

  • In-line jump

    0: The absolute beginning

    ^: first non-whitespace character at the beginning of a line

    $: absolute end of line

  • Inline jump

    #G: Jump to Line #;

    G: Last line

    GG: to the first line

• Flip Screen

  CTRL+F: Flip one screen down

  Ctrl+b: Turn up one screen

  Ctrl+d: Flip Down half screen

  Ctrl+u: Flip up half screen

• Delete a single character

  X: Delete a single character at the cursor location

  #x: Remove the total # characters from the cursor and backwards

• Delete command: D (the use of Copy command y is the same as this)

  DD: Deletes the current cursor in the row

  #dd: Delete the line containing the line of the current cursor;

  DFK Remove from cursor to K-letter position

  FK cursor moves to the next K-letter position

  Press in command-line mode: Enter STARTADD,ENDADDD (delete Staradd to EndAdd)

  .: Indicates when the forward

  $: Last line

  +#: Down # line

• Paste Command P

  P: If you delete or copy to a whole line, paste to the bottom of the line where the cursor is located, and if the copied or deleted content is a non-full line, paste it behind the character of the cursor;

  P: If you delete or copy to an entire row, paste to the top of the line where the cursor is located, and if the copied or deleted content is a non-full row, paste it in front of the character in the cursor;

• Replacement: R

  R: Replacement mode

• Undo Edit Operation U

  U: Undo previous edit Operation Continuous u command to undo previous n edits

  #u: Undo Recent # edits directly

  Undo the most recent undo action: Ctrl+r

• Visual operation (in command mode v Enter)

  Match selection: such as if (strcmp ("ABC", szstr) = = 0) cursor at position a

  I "-" selected ABC, removed ""

  A "-" check "ABC"

  i)-"ABC" selected, Szstr

  2a)-"Checked (strcmp (" ABC ", szstr) = = 0)

• Enter block Action (Ctrl + V Enter)

  Move arrow key selection block

  Add content to the front of each line of the cursor: Select Block-->i (capital I) and enter what you want to add-->[esc]--> carriage return

  Add content after each line of cursor: Select Block-->a--> Enter what you want to add-->[esc]--> enter

  Indent left and right: Select Blocks < and >

  Auto indent: Select block =

• Repeats the previous edit operation.

• Find

  :/pattern

  ：? PATTERN

  N,n move to the next/previous matching place

• Use Vim to edit multiple files

  Vim FILE1 FILE2 FILE3

  : Next switches to the next file

  :p Rev Switch to the previous file

  : Last switch to final file

  : first to switch to file one

  Exit: QA All exits

• Split-screen display of a file

  Ctrl+w, S: Horizontal splitter window

  Ctrl+w, V: Vertical splitter window

  Toggle cursor between windows: Ctrl+w, ARROW

  : QA Closes all windows

• Edit multiple files in a split window

  Vim-o: Horizontal Split display

  Vim-o: Vertical Split display

• Fills the contents of another file in the current file

  : R/path/to/somefile

• Interacting with the shell

  :! COMMAND

• Show or suppress line numbers

  : Set Number (: Set NU)

  : Set Nonu

• Show ignore or differentiate character case

  : Set ignorecase (: Set IC)

  : Set Noic

• Set Auto Indent

  : Set Autoindent (: Set AI)

  : Set Noai

• Find text to highlight or cancel

  : Set Hlsearch

  : Set Nohlsearch

• Syntax highlighting

  : Syntax on

  : Syntax off

Configuration file

• /ETC/VIMRC: Global configuration file
• ~/.VIMRC: Personal profile, if not, you can create it yourself, be sure to create it under your home directory

Vim Quick Check Table

Use of Vim