Summary of common Vim commands

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• 1. Move the cursor
• 2. Basic editing
• 3. Find and replace
• State of 4.

1. Move the cursor

The command	function
lorRight	Move one character to the right
horLeft	Move one character to the left
jorDown	Move down one line
korUp	Move up one row
0	Moves to the start of the current row
[[	Move to the beginning of the code block
] [	Move to the end of the code block
^	Moves to the first non-null character of the current line
$	Moves to the end of the current line
A	Moves to the end of the current line
w	Move to the beginning of the next word or punctuation mark
W	Move to the beginning of the next word, ignoring punctuation
b	Move to the beginning of the previous word or punctuation mark
B	Move to the beginning of the previous word, ignoring punctuation
Ctrl-forPgDown	Turn the next page
Ctrl-borPgUp	Turn the page up
12G	Move to line number. For example, 12G moves to line 12 of the file
GG	Move to the end of the file
gg	Move to the bottom of the file

2. Basic editing

• Add and undo text

The command	function
i	Inserts text before the cursor
a	Inserts text after the cursor
o	Opens a line below the current line
O	Opens a line above the current line
u	undo
ctrl + r	redo

• Delete the text

The command	function
x	Delete current character
3x	Deletes the current character and the following two characters
dd	Delete current row
5dd	Deletes the current line and the following four lines of text
dW	Delete from cursor position to the beginning of the next word
d$	Deletes lines from cursor position to the end of the current line
do	Deletes the start of a line from the cursor position to the current line
d^	The first non-null character from the cursor position to the line of text
dG	From current line to end of file
d20G	From the current line to line 20 of the file

• Copy the text

The command	function
yy	Copy the current row
5yy	Copies the current line and the following four lines of text
yW	Copy from the current cursor position to the beginning of the next word
y$	Copies from the current cursor position to the end of the current line
y0	Copy from the current cursor position to the beginning of the line
y^	Copies the first non-null character from the current cursor position to the line of text
yG	Copy from the current line to the end of the file
y20G	Copy from the current line to line 20 of the file

• Paste the text

The command	function
p	Paste below the current line
P	Paste it above the current line

3. Find and replace

The command	function
:%s/Line/line/gc	Change the word “Line” to “Line” in the entire file, requiring user confirmation
:	The colon character runs an ex command
%	Specifies the number of rows to operate on. % indicates from the first line to the last line; And 1,$means from the first line to the last line of the file. If the range of text lines is omitted, the action only applies to the current line
s	Specify actions. In this case, replace (find and replace)
/Line/line	Find type and alternative text
g	Globally, find and replace all matching strings in the text line. If g is omitted, only the first matching string in each line of text is replaced.
c	If c is omitted, you can directly replace the command that requires user confirmation

Replace with Line (y/ N/A /q/ L /^E/^Y)? , the user performs further processing

The command	function
y	Perform a replacement
n	Skip the matching instance
a	Replace this and all subsequent matching strings
Q or ESC	Exit the replacement operation
l	Perform this substitution and exit. L is short for “last”
Ctrl-eorCtrl-y	Scroll down and up to see the context of the proposed replacement

State of 4.

The command	function
ctrl + g	Current line information
g + ctrl + g	Word count