Vim - Cheatsheet

April 24, 2022

Vim is a very powerful text editor and can be configured to use as IDE.

Learning vim has a steep learning curve. Try replacing your regular IDE with vim or work with it side by side. Slowly you can figure out how to do basic actions you do in IDE with vim such as copy, paste, select, tab, split and more.

Create your own cheat sheet & that would be the go-to place to reference it later.

I've shared mine below with the vim configuration link.

:q	Quit	:q!	Force quit
:w	Save	:wq	Save & Quit
h	Move arrow left	j	Move arrow down
k	Move arrow up	l	Move arrow right
Ctrl + r	Redo changes	u	Undo changes
v	Enter visual mode	V	Enter visual line mode
Ctrl + v	Enter visual block mode	d	Delete
c	Yank	p	Paste
i	Insert	I	Prepend
o	Next line	O	Previous line
a	Append	A	Append from end of line
dd	Delete the whole line	yy	Copy full line
yiw	Copy current word	cc	Delete the line & change
r	Replace the word	w	Jump words forward
b	Jump words backword	dw	Delete a word
d5w	Delete 5 words	5d5w	5 times delete 5 words
0	Start of line	$	End of line
d0	Delete words before the cursor	d$	Delete words after the cursor
ciw	Delete word & Insert mode	cip	Change inner paragraph
dip	Delete inner paragraph	yip	Yank inner paragraph
vip	Select paragraph	%	Nearest/matching {[()]}
gg	Jump to start of file	G	Jump to end of file
:n	Go to line n	nG	Go to line n
gg=G	To indent all	ggVG=	To indent all in Visual mode
==	To indent current line	/<word>	Search word & Press n to find the next occurrence or N to find the previous occurrence.
ma	Mark the position as a	dma	To delete mark a
'a	Jump to mark a	']	Cycle through mark
'[	Cycle through mark in reverse	:marks	List all marks
zf	Fold selected line	zd	Delete fold
za	Toggle fold	zo	Open fold
zc	Close fold	zf1j	Fold one line below
zM	Close all fold	zR	Reveal all fold