nkeil / vim

Personal vim cheat sheet

vim

Personal vim cheat sheet

Commands to internalize

Motions

• b: move backwards word by word
• e: jump to the end of a word
• ge: jump to the end of the previous word

• f{character}: move to the next occurence of a character in a line
• F{character}: move to the previous occurence of a character in a line
• t{character}: move just before f{character} (think of as "un[t]il")
• T{character}: move just after F{character}
• ;: repeat the last character search forwards
• ,: repeat the last character search backwards

• }: jump entire paragraph downwards
• {: jump entire paragraph upwards
• CTRL-D: move down half a page
• CTRL-U: move up half a page

• *: search for the word under the cursor forwards
• #: search for the word under the cursor backwards

• gd: jump to the definition of the word under your cursor
• gf: jump to the file of the import under your cursor

• {line}gg: go to a specific line
• %: jump to matching ({[]})

Operators

• g~: switch case
• gu: make lowercase
• gU: make uppercase
• >: add indentation
• <: remove indentation
• =: format code

• d/{word}: delete until word
• D: delete from the cursor to the end of the line
• C: change from the cursor to the end of the line
• Y: copies an entire line

Commands

• .: repeat your last change
• ;: repeat your last motion
• r: replace one single character for another
• ~: switch case for a single character