vim cheat sheet

0.Structure of vim commands:

<number><command><text object or motion>

1.Basic editing

2.Operators and repetition

3.Yank and paste

4.Srearching

5.Marks and macros

6. Various motions

7.Various commands

8.Text objects

• Scope:
  i: inner, does not include surrounding white space.
  a: around, includes surrounding white space.

• Object:
  w: word
  s: sentence
  p: paragrph

9.Complete cheat sheet

10.Others

input unicode:ctrl+v u unicode. example:ctrl+v u 2190 = ←

solve autoindent issue during paste several line: entry :set paste mode and then paste, entry :set nopaste to quit paste mode

upper/lower case: gu/gU+scope($,G,w,0,...) or visual mode + u/U
Change between lower and upper case: ~

Ctrl+B/F = scroll up/down page

ZZ: quit and save
ZQ: quit and don’t save
:x: quit and save

n + i + x + ESC :insert n times of x
quit insert mode: ESC or Ctrl+[
delete and enter insert mode: c + scope(w,$,G,b,...)
delete entir row and enter insert mode: cc/S
delete one character and enter insert mode: s

:r!date: Insert current date and time at cursor position
:r!command: Insert the output of shell command

%: move between {} [] ()

find a word: / * #

:set ignorecase smartcase

Search	Result
/WORD	WORD
/Word	Word
/WoRd	WoRd
/word	word,Word,WORD,WoRd….
/word\C	word (case sensitive)
/word\c	word,Word,WORD,WoRd…. (case insensitive)

:%s/foo\C/bar/g
Find each occurrence of ‘foo’ (in all lines), and replace it with ‘bar’.

:%s#foo\C#bar#g
This is can be used to repalce URL.

Redo: . or Ctrl+R

indent in visual mode:
> or <

Reference:

Several images are download from http://www.viemu.com/