Vim

Editing

Moving around

• Find text -> /text (next hit -> n, previous hit -> N)
• Find an replace all occurrences of foo with bar -> :%s/foo/bar/g
• Move to the beginning/end of a word (forward) -> w / e
• Move to the beginning/end of a word (backward) -> b / ge
• Move to beginning/end of line and start editing -> shift + i / shift + a
• Move to the end of line -> $
• Jump forward/backward one line -> j / k
• Jump forward/backward one paragraph -> { / }
• Move to the beginning/end of document -> gg / shift + g

Editing

• select characters -> v and move cursor. Selection includes cursor.
• select line -> shift + v
• select block -> ctrl + v and move the cursor keys
• copy selection -> y
• copy line -> yy
• cut selection -> d
• cut word -> dw
• cut line -> dd
• paste -> p
• paste line above -> shift + p
• delete character -> x
• create new line below -> o
• create a new line above -> shift + o
• undo -> u
• redo -> ctrl + r

File Management

Explorer

• Open file explorer -> :Explore
• List files in current directory -> :e then press Space and Ctrl+d

Save/Quit

• Save file -> :w
• Save file and quit -> :x
• Quit -> :q
• Quit discarding changes -> :q!

Tabs

• New tab -> :tabnew
• Go to next tab -> gt
• Go to previous tab -> gT
• Go to tab number -> #gt
• Go to first tab -> :tabr
• Go to last tab -> :tabl
• Move current tab to the last position -> :tabm
• Move current tab to the # position -> :tabm #
• Close tab -> :close

Buffers

• Open new file in buffer -> :e <filename path>
• Open a new file and split screen -> :sp
• List active buffers -> :ls
• Change to specific buffer -> :b <buffer-number>
• Move to next/previous buffer -> :bn / :bp
• Jump back/forward to last jump location -> Ctrl + o / Ctrl + i

Change tab spacing in Vim

$ vi

:e $HOME/.vimrc

set tabstop=4

:x