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simle vim guide

Vim Guide

List

• Modes
• Movement
• Search
• Editing
• Copy & Paste
• Repitition
• Undo & Redo
• Save & Quit
• Others

Modes

There are two modes in vi: normal and insert.

• from normal to insert: i
• from insert to normal: esc

In insert mode, you just type characters as you need.

The following commmands are used in normal mode.

Movement

Characters

• up: k
• down: j
• left: h
• right: l

Words

• back (to the start of current or previous word): b
• end (to the end of current of next word): e
• next (to the start of next word): w

Lines

• go to line $n: $nG
• go to start of current line: 0
• go to end of current line: $

Documents

• go to start of current document: gg
• go to the end of current document: G

Search

• character $c inline: f$c to next, F$c to previous
• the other part of current bracket: %
• current word: * to next, # to previous
• regular expression $r: /$r, n to next, N to previous

Editing

This will switch to insert mode.

• insert: i
• append: a
• new line after current line: o
• new line before current line: O

Copy & Paste

• copy: all deletions will copy the content
• copy: todo
• paste: p

Repetition

• do some $ops over $n times: $n$ops
• do previous ops: .

Undo & Redo

• undo: u
• redo: ctrl+r

Save & Quit

• save: :w
• quit: :q, :q! to force quit
• save and quit: :wq, :wq! to force save and quit

Others

• line number: :set nu to show, set nu! to hide