Up / Down / Left / Right
h - move left (←) (not high!)
l - move right (→) (not low!)
j - move up (↑)
k - move down (↓)
H - move to the top of the screen (High)
L - move to the end of the screen (Low)
Move between windows
Ctrl+W then ↑ or ↓ or ← or → - move cursor to next window
Ctrl+W then H or L - move vertical left right
Ctrl+W then J or K - move horizontally up down
Move to last line / first line
:$ - move to last line
:0 - move to the first line
:<num> - move to <number> line
Move in the line
HOME or 0 - move to the beginning of the line
$ or END - move to the end of the line
Switch between tabs
gt - go to next tab
gT - go to previous tab
Ctrl+PgUp - go to previous tab (will conflict with GUI)
Ctrl+PgDown - go to next tab (will conflict with GUI)
Search ignore case
/\ckeyword
Search with case
/\CkEyWord
Search Next
/ or n
Search Previous
? or N
Search keyword under cursor and Jump
*
Jump to variable declaration (a.k.a. go declaration)
gd #goto declaration
Jump back to previous cursor
g;
Undo / Redo
u / Ctrl+U
Insert new line
o
Replace
Insert or R or r
Reload without saving
:edit! or :e!
Forgot to sudo - gain sudo vim access when you are readonly
:w !sudo tee %
To delete all lines matching a certain regular expression pattern, use
:g/pattern/d
To do the opposite, i.e. only keep those lines matching the pattern, use
:v/pattern/d
And to only temporarily print matching lines, use
:g/pattern
Set mouse enable in .vimrc
set mouse=a #enable
set mouse=c #disable
Set display line number
set number
Get current file path
:echo @%
:echo expand('%:p')
Set Syntax Highlights on bash scripts without shebang
:set syn=sh
During typing, you want autocomplete
ctrl-N in insert mode
Copy even if you're using set mouse=a
This is actually simple: by accessing register "+" or "*" in Linux
- select text using any mode
- yank the text to register +
"+y
Paste even if you're using set mouse=a
This is actually simple: by accessing register "+" or "*" in Linux
- go to insert mode
- paste the text from register + (during insert mode)
Ctrl-R and then +
or you can do this (during command mode)
"+p
Find and Replace (Substitute)
Full command
:substitute
Find all occurrence of 'foo' and replace it with 'bar'.
:%s/foo/bar/g
Find each occurrence of 'foo' (in the current line only), and replace it with 'bar'.
:s/foo/bar/g
