Vim

Learning the vi Editor/Vim Commands look basically correct. We should merge with the page we already have on vim if is not already covered there and redirect. $ vim xxx yyy zzz - open one or more files (-R: open as read-only; +n: skip to line n; +/xxx: skip to string xxx;) vim . - browse current directory Modes esc - goto command mode i,I,a,A,o,O - goto insert mode v,V,Ctrl+v - goto visual mode Colon Commands w - save w myfile - save as myfile q - quit r myfile - paste myfile at the cursor of the current file e myfile - edit myfile, close current file f - show file properties n - open next vi file in arguments list !xxx - run xxx in the shell !!xxx - replace current line with result of shell command xxx !}xxx - replace current paragraph with the result shell command xxx map - show key mappings map key cmd - map vi cmd to key . - show line numbers set nonumber - turn off line numbering s/old/new/ - search and replace %s/search/&/g - search and count matches 1,$ s/old/new/g - global replace g/^$/d - delete all blank lines /xxx - search down for xxx ?xxx - search up for xxx Search Commands / - RegExp search n - repeat last search(find next) /↑ - edit last search Control Commands Ctrl-b - page up Ctrl-f - page down Ctrl-u - half page up Ctrl-d - half page down Editing a - append after cursor A - append after current line i - insert before cursor r - replace at cursor ~ - transpose case of text at cursor R - replace from cursor to end of new text o - open newline after cursor O - open newline before cursor u - undo last action Ctrl+R - redo last action U - undo current line yy - copy current line nyy - copy n lines from current line y/string/ copy from the cursor position to the string's position, searching forward y?string? copy from the string's position to the cursor, searching backward p - paste ddp - cut and paste current line dd - delete current line dw - delete current word d$ - delete from cursor to end of line D - delete from cursor to end of line cc - change current line cw - change current word c$ - change from cursor to end of line C - change from cursor to end of line s - change current symbol S - change current line Cursor Movement h/j/k/l - move left/down/up/right w - move forward word-by-word b - move backward word-by-word e - move to end of current word W - same as w but only uses space as delimiter B - same as b but only uses space as delimiter E - same as e but only uses space as delimiter } - move forward one paragraph { - move backward one paragraph ) - move forward one line ( - move backward one line ^ - first non-blank character 0 - start of current line $ - end of current line gg - top of the file G - bottom of the file ngg - go to line n nG - same as ngg % - find match of current brace in the cursor ru:Vim pl:Vim pt:Vim To store a session: :mksession To load a session while starting vim: $ vim -S Session.vim To load a session while in vim: :so Session.vim Retab one or more files from the command line $ vim -c retab -c wq <filename(s)> Wscript Avoid setting the file type to python by including these lines in ~/.vimrc 1 autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile wscript set filetype = python Clear highlighted search terms :let @/="" Paste indented code into vim from another application :set paste <Terminal paste command> :set nopaste Redirect Terminal output to Vim repoquery -lq *gstreamer* |vim - Write and quit a file Shift + zz Read blocks of text from other file :r! sed -n 12,40p filename This will paste line contents from line number 12 to 40 in current file Save a file which requires sudo permission without exiting the file :w !sudo tee % You can add following line to your .vimrc to make this trick easy-to-use: just type :w!!. cmap w!! %!sudo tee > /dev/null % Word wrap set wrap Auto Indentation Select the block(visual mode) you want to auto indent and just press "=" button. Copy a file to current position eg: 44t. Move a line to another position eg: 4m5 Indent a line >> << Delete a block eg: 1,10 d Set/Unset Line numbers :set nu :set nonu See/Hide special characters in vim :set list :set nolist Must use Vim Plugins NERDTree Open and edit your files more efficiently. Nerd Commenter Comment or un-comment multiple lines with keys.This plugins detects the file type and apply's the correct comment syntax.It even supports Vim's visual mode. Taglist List and jump to functions quickly.This requires that you have ctags installed . Computer software Open source software 25%