Normal Mode

Follows this structure (number) Operator + (number) motion

Navigating with motions

Moving cursor:

• k : Up
• h: Down
• l: Right
• j: Left
• 0: Begin of the line
• $: End of the line
• b: Previous word
• w: Next word
• e: Next end of word
• %: Matching (), {}or []
• gg: Begin of the file
• G: end of the file
• ctrl + o: Goes back to where you came
• ctrl + i: Goes forward from where you came

• Multi visual line

  • gj: Down
  • gk: Up
  • g0: Begin of the line
  • g$: End of the line

Text Manipulation

Deletion Operator

• x: Char on cursor

  • xp: Transpose character (delete + paste)

• d: Delete motion

  • dd: Deletes the whole line
  • ddp: Transpose line (delete line + paste below)
  • dap: Delete Text Object Paragraph
  • daw: Delete Text Object Word
  • Combined with common Motions:
  • dw: Next word of the cursor
  • d$: Deletes cursor to the end of line
  • d0: Deletes cursor to the begin of the line

Undo/Redo

• u : undo last command
• U: undo all changes in line
• r: redo last command

Copy/Paste

• y: Copy (Yank)

  • yw: Copy word (stores in the unnamed registry)
  • yy: Copy line
  • "ayw : Copy word to the registry named a
• p: Paste after cursor
• P: Paste before cursor

Common Registries:

• "_: Black Hole. Use when you don't want to store information in the unnamed registry.
• "% Name of the current file
• "# Name of the alternate file
• ". Last inserted text

Use command :reg to see the values in each register.

Search

• /: Followed by the word you want to search
• ?: Searches backwards. Followed by the word you want to search
• n: Next item in search
• N: Previous item in search
• * Searches for the word in the cursor

It can be used with other operators:

• d/renan : Deletes from the cursor up to the word renan
• c/renan: Changes from the cursor up to the word renan

Search character in line

• f: Followed by the character you want to search. Cursor on the char.
• t: Followed by the character you want to search. Cursor before the char.
• F Followed by the character you want to search. Backwards. Cursor on the char.
• T: Followed by the character you want to search. Backwards. Cursor before the char.
• ; goes to the next occurrence
• , goes back to the previous occurrence

It can be used with other operators.

Changing modes

To Insert Mode

From normal to insert mode:

• i: Cursor in the current position
• a: After the Cursor current position
• A: Cursor in the end of the line
• o: Opens a new line. Cursor in the line below
• O: Opens a new line. Cursor in the line above

To Replace Mode

• R: Moves to replace mode

To Visual Mode

• v: Moves to visual mode

Insert Mode

Command Mode

:w FILENAME saves to disk

:r FILENAME retrieves files from disk and paste :r !command executes command and paste output

:jumps to see the jumps history in the file and other files

• as a hack you can use u + ctrl - r to jump to latest change in the file :changes use changes to see the list of modifications in the current file in the current file
• g. or g; to move the cursor to the changelist history :marks to see the marks created

substitute command :s/old/new or :s/old/new/g to replace one match or all matches inline

:%s/old/new/g replaces all matches in the file :%s/old/new/gc replaces all matches asking individually