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Vim Notes

admin 11月 12, 2020 0

Vim is a powerful text editor in Linux.

Introduction

Summarize some basic commands of Vim for quick review.

Commands

Movements

h left
j down
k up
l right
w to the start of next word
e to the end of word
$ to the end of line
0 move to the start of line
number motion repeat a motion many times
2w move two words forward
3e move to the end of the third word forward
CTRL-G dsplay location in the file and file status
G move to the end of file
gg move to first line
number G move to specific line

Insert and Delete

i insert before the cursor
o insert a new line below
O insert a new line above
a insert after the cursor
A append after the line
x delete the character at the cursor
d motion delete to word motion type
dw delete until the start of next word
d$ delete to the end of line
d number motion delete to the word motion many times
d2w delete until the start of next next word
dd delete one line
2dd delete two lines

Change, Replace and Copy

u undo previous action
U undo all changes on a line
CTRL-R undo the undo’s
p put text after the cursor
r replace the character under the cursor
R replace until ESC
c [number] motion change to the location of multiple times’ motion
ce change until the end of word
c$ change to the end of line

Search and Substitute

/phrase search forward for the phrase
?phrase search backward for the phrase
n find next occurence
N find last occurence
CTRL-o back to older positions
CTRL-I to newer positions
% match (,),[,],{,}
:s/old/new substitute new for first old in the line
:s/old/new/g substitute new for old globally in the line
:#,#s/old/new/g substitute between two lines
:%s/old/new/g substitute in the whole file
:%s/old/new/gc find occurences in the whole file and check whether to substitute
set ic ignore upper/lower case
set is show partial matches for a search phrases
set hls highlight matching phrases

:q quit
:q! force to quit
:wq save and quit
:w save
:w FILENAME write to specific file
v visual selection
:r FILENAME retrieve file and put it below the cursor
:r !dir retrieve output of dir and put it below the cursor

Other Basic Commands

:!command execute external command
:help help
:help user-manual user manual
ESC normal mode

Reference

vimtutor