More than 130 VIM commands you need to know

Since 1970, VI and Vim have become one of the programmers ' favorite text editors. 5 years ago, I wrote a question called "100 vim commands that every programmer should know." This is an improved version of the previous article, I hope you will like it.

Basis

: E filename
Open filename for 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 as filename

.
Repeats the last change made in normal mode

5.
Repeats 5 times The last change made in normal mode

Move around in a file

K or Up Arrow
Move the cursor up one line

J or down Arrow
Move the cursor down one line

E
Move the cursor to the end of the word

B
Move the cursor to the begining of the word

0
Move the cursor to the begining of the line

G
Move the cursor to the end of the line

Gg
Move the cursor to the begining of the file

L
Move the cursor to the end of the file

: 59
Move cursor to line . Replace the desired line number.

20|
Move cursor to column .

%
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 Line

y$
Copy to end of line

D
Cut to end of line

Search

/word
Search word from top to bottom

? word
Search word from bottom to top

*
Search the word under cursor

/\cstring
Search string or string, case insensitive

/jo[ha]n
Search John or Joan

/\< the
Search the, theatre or then

/the\>
Search The or breathe

/\< the\>
Search the

/\< |. \>
Search all words of 4 letters

/\/
Search Fred but not Alfred or Frederick

/fred\|joe
Search Fred or Joe

/\<\d\d\d\d\>
Search exactly 4 digits

/^\N\{3}
Find 3 Empty lines

: bufdo/searchstr/
Search in all open files

Bufdo%s/something/somethingelse/g
Search something in all the open buffers and replace it with SomethingElse

Replace

:%s/old/new/g
Replace all occurences of the old by new in 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 by Hello

:%s/$/harry/g
Replace the end of each line by Harry

:%s/onward/forward/gi
Replace onward by forward, Case unsensitive

:%s/*$//g
Delete All white spaces

: g/string/d
Delete all lines containing string

: v/string/d
Delete all lines containing which didn ' t contain string

: s/bill/steve/
Replace the first occurence of Bill by Steve

: s/bill/steve/g
Replace Bill by Steve

:%s/bill/steve/g
Replace Bill by Steve in all the file

:%s/^m//g
Delete DOS Carriage Returns (^M)

:%s/\r/\r/g
Transform DOS Carriage returns in returns

:%s#<[^>]\+># #g
Delete HTML tags but keeps text

:%s/^\ (. *\) \n\1$/\1/
Delete lines which appears twice

CTRL + A
Increment number under the cursor

Ctrl+x
Decrement number under cursor

Ggvgg?
Change Text to Rot13

Uppercase and lowercase

Vu
Lowercase line

Vu
Uppercase Line

g~~
Invert case

VEU
Switch Word to uppercase

ve~
Modify Word case

Gggug
Set all text to lowercase

Gggug
Set all text to uppercase

: Set ignorecase
Ignore Case in searches

: Set Smartcase
Ignore case in searches excepted if a uppercase letter is used

:%s/\<./\u&/g
Sets first letter of each word to uppercase

:%s/\<./\l&/g
Sets first letter of each word to lowercase

:%s/.*/\u&
Sets first letter of all line to uppercase

:%s/.*/\l&
Sets first letter of all line to lowercase

Read and write files

: 1,10 w outfile
Saves lines 1 to ten in outfile

: 1,10 W >> outfile
Appends lines 1 to outfile

: R infile
Insert the content of infile

: 23r infile
Insert the content of infile under line 23

File browser

E.
Open Integrated File explorer

: Sex
Split window and open integrated File explorer

: sex!
Same as : Sex but 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 contening expression

Gf
Open file name under cursor

Interacting with Unix systems

:!pwd
Execute the pwd Unix command, then returns to Vi

!! Pwd
Execute the pwd Unix 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 on the current position

5!! Fmt
Align the next 5 lines

Tabs/windows

: tabnew
Creates a new tab

Gt
Show next Tab

: Tabfirst
Show first Tab

: Tablast
Show last Tab

: tabm N (position)
Rearrange tabs

: Tabdo%s/foo/bar/g
Execute a command in all tabs

: Tab Ball
Puts all open files in tabs

: New Abc.txt
Edit abc.txt in New window

Split screen Display

: E filename
Edit filename in current window

: Split filename
Split the window and open filename

Ctrl-w Up ARROW
Puts cursor in top window

Ctrl-w ctrl-w
Puts cursor in next window

Ctrl-w_
Maximize Current Window vertically

ctrl-w|
Maximize Current Window horizontally

ctrl-w=
Gives the same size to all windows

Ten ctrl-w+
ADD ten lines to the current window

: Vsplit File
Split window vertically

: Sview File
Same as : Split in readonly mode

: Hide
Close Current Window

:-nly
Close all windows, excepted current

: B 2
Open #2 in this window

Auto-complete

CTRL + N ctrl+p (in insert mode)
Complete Word

Ctrl+x ctrl+l
Complete line

: Set Dictionary=dict
Define dict as a dictionnary

Ctrl+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 [email protected]
Define Mail as abbreviation of [email protected]

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 off
Turn off syntax highlighting

: Set Syntax=perl
Force syntax highlighting

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