Using Vim

• Open Vim: vim filename
• Closing Vim:
  • :wq -> save and quit
  • :q -> quit and not save
  • :w -> save and not quit

Movements

• Hitting gg will take you to the top of file
• G takes you to the bottom
• } and { navigate code blocks
• o adding a new line and put into insert mode
• O adding a new line above and put into insert mode
• w will jump to next word b will take you back
• :number will take you to line number
• 0 will take you to the start of the line
• 0 + w or ^ will take you to the first word of a line
• h j k l to move up down left and right
• a move over by 1 and set insert mode
• A jump to end and set insert mode

Editing

• Hitting “i” in command mode lets you insert

• Hitting shift + i will set insert mode at the beginning of the line

• Then esc puts you back into command mode

• Hitting dd will delete a line and copy to clip board

• Hitting d + } will delete a whole block of code

• Hitting 10 dd will delete 10 lines

• Hitting u will undo

• Hitting ctrl + r will redo

• Hitting yy will copy a line

• p to paste bellow P to paste above

• x remove a letter where the cursor is

• number x remove number letters before cursor

• ~ swap the case of the letter prefix with number for multiple characters

• . redo

• $ will take you to the end of a line

• W will jump spaces and B reverses that

• f + char find and place cursor on char

• t + charfind and place cursor before char

• % take you to and from closing brackets

• d + % remove code between brackets

• c + w change mode and word will remove a word and set insert mode

• D remove everthing from cursor onwards

• c + t + char edit from cursor to char

• C change whole line

• d + t + char delete from cursor to char

• * take you to occurances of the word where your cursor is

• ; take you to next instance after using a find command

• r + char replace letter at cursor with char prefix with number for multiple replaces

• R allow to replace lots of letters into replace mode

• Searches*

• /word highlight all occurances of word
• ?word highlight all occurances form cursor backwards
• Enter go to first occurance after / or ?
• n go to next instance
• N go to previous instance
• * take you to the next occurance of the highlighted word
• # next occurance of highlighted word

Macros

• Press q to start recording then select a hotkey. Now run some commands and hit q to end. Then hit @ hotkey to replay a command. Prefix @ with a number to replace that many times

Visual Mode: V

• Select text with movement commands then you can hit:
  • d to delete
  • After selected > or < to indent code.
• shift + v selects the whole line and puts you into visual mode.
• v + move select from cursor while move

Visual Block Mode

ctrl + v enter visual block mode. Now you can select columns and hit r to replace things. In visual block mode hitting shift i will allow you to type and then after you hit esc the text will appear in all places selected

NOTES EXTRA:

• g_ moves to a non blank char at the end of a line
• CTRL + D move half way down the page
• CTRL + U move half way up the page
• 2w allows us to move the cursor 2 words forward.
  • {Count}{Command} to repeat something
• Use gd to jump to definition of whatever is under your cursor.
• Use gf to jump to a file in an import.
• Use {line}gg to go to a specific line.

{operator}{count}{motion}
{count}{operator}{motion}

For instance, the d2w combination allows you to delete two words

• c/hello changes everything until the first occurrence of hello.
• ggyG copies a whole document
• gUw capitalizes a word
• daw to delete a word (plus trailing whitespace)
• ciw to change inner word
• das to delete a sentence (dis to delete inner sentence)
• da" to delete something in double quotes including the quotes themselves (di" deletes only the content inside the quotes and spares the quotes)
• ci" to change something inside double quotes
• dap to delete a paragraph
• dab da( or da) to delete a block surrounded by (
• daB da{ or da} to delete a block surrounded by {
• dat to delete an HTML tag
• cit to change the contents of an HTML tag