By popular demand, I wrote up a short(?) cheatsheet for the keybindings I use the most in Vim.
I will keep adding to the list as I realize I use something more often or when I remember something that I use without realizing. Feel free to post your suggestions in the comment section.
Beware: Until Ghost supports tables, this table right here will look pretty bad. Sorry about that :(.
Action | Key(s)
- | -
insert at cursor position | i
insert after the cursor | a
insert at the beginning of the line | I
insert at the end of the line | A
find
SOMETHING
| /
SOMETHING
(that's a forward slash)
go to next found match | n
go to previous found match | N
jump to beginning of the next word | w
jump to the beginning of the current/previous word | b
jump to the end of the current/next word | e
copy selection | y (having something selected)
copy current line | Y
cut selection | d (having something selected)
cut current line | dd
paste after the cursor | p
paste before the cursor | P
enter visual selection mode | v
enter visual line selection mode | V
insert empty line after the current one | o
insert empty line before the current one | O
erase (cut) character under cursor | x
erase (cut) character before cursor | X
delete from cursor to end of word | dw
delete line (same as cut) | dd
delete from cursor to end of line | d$ (or D)
delete from cursor to beginning of line | d^
change from cursor to end of word | cw
change character under cursor | s
increment number under cursor (by 1) | Ctrl + A
decrement number under cursor (by 1) | Ctrl + X
go to matching paren / bracket | %
go to line
N
| :
N
end of line | $
beginning of line | ^
end of file | G
beginning of file | gg
navigate back to previous location | Ctrl + o
open a [new] file (buffer) | :e
save current buffer | :w
undo | u
redo | :redo (Ctrl + R by default but I remapped that)
switch between current and previous buffer | Ctrl + 6
comment current line / selection |
leader
+ / (Bound to
NERDCommenter
's toggle function)
open a file in the project/directory (fuzzy search) | Ctrl + P (using
CtrlP
)
go to symbol in currently open buffers | Ctrl + R (Bound to
CtrlP
's CtrlPBufTagAll)
view symbols list in current buffer | F8 (Using
TagBar
's toggle)
view directory/project layout |
leader
+ n (Using
NERDTree
)
view currently open buffers |
leader
+ b (Using
EasyBuffer
's toggle)
record macro in register R | qR then
actions
then Esc then q
playback macro in register R | @R
Keep in mind that most of the actions can be used together (for example d and w , for dw ) and they can also be repeated if you prefix the command with a number that specifies the repetition count for the given command.
You can find out what leader is here . Stay tuned for a post on configuring Vim (especially for beginners / converts).
