Vim Cheatsheet

Open help for keyword

Save file as

Close current pane

Open a terminal window

Open man page for word under the cursor

Move cursor left

Move cursor down

Move cursor up

Nove cursor right

Move to top of screen

Move to middle of screen

Move to bottom of screen

Jump forwards to the start of a word

Jump forwards to the start of a word (words can contain punctuation)

Jump forwards to the end of a word

Jump forwards to the end of a word (words can contain punctuation)

Jump backwards to the start of a word

Jump backwards to the start of a word (words can contain punctuation)

Move to matching character (default supported pairs: '()', '{}', '[]' - use :h matchpairs in vim for more info)

Jump to the start of the line

Jump to the first non-blank character of the line

Jump to the end of the line

Jump to the last non-blank character of the line

Go to the first line of the document

Go to the last line of the document

Go to line 5

Jump to next occurrence of character x

Jump to before next occurrence of character x

Jump to previous occurence of character x

Jump to after previous occurence of character x

Repeat previous f, t, F or T movement

Repeat previous f, t, F or T movement, backwards

Jump to next paragraph (or function/block, when editing code)

Jump to previous paragraph (or function/block, when editing code)

Center cursor on screen

Move screen down one line (without moving cursor)

Move screen up one line (without moving cursor)

Move back one full screen

Move forward one full screen

Move forward 1/2 a screen

Move back 1/2 a screen

Insert before the cursor

Insert at the beginning of the line

Insert (append) after the cursor

Insert (append) at the end of the line

Append (open) a new line below the current line

Append (open) a new line above the current line

Insert (append) at the end of the word

Delete the character before the cursor during insert mode

Delete word before the cursor during insert mode

Begin new line during insert mode

Indent (move right) line one shiftwidth during insert mode

De-indent (move left) line one shiftwidth during insert mode

Insert (auto-complete) next match before the cursor during insert mode

Insert (auto-complete) previous match before the cursor during insert mode

Insert the contents of register x

Exit insert mode

Replace a single character

JJoin line below to the current one with one space in between

Join line below to the current one without space in between

Reflow paragraph

Switch case up to motion

Change to lowercase up to motion

Change to uppercase up to motion

Change (replace) entire line

Change (replace) to the end of the line

Change (replace) to the end of the line

Change (replace) entire word

Change (replace) to the end of the word

Delete character and substitute text

Delete line and substitute text (same as cc)

Transpose two letters (delete and paste)

Undo

Restore (undo) last changed line

Redo

Repeat last command

Start visual mode, mark lines, then do a command (like y-yank)

Start linewise visual mode

Move to other end of marked area

Start visual block mode

Move to other corner of block

Mark a word

A block with ()

A block with {}

A block with <> tags

Inner block with ()

Inner block with {}

Inner block with <> tags

Exit visual mode

Shift text right

Shift text left

Yank (copy) marked text

Delete marked text

Switch case

Change marked text to lowercase

Change marked text to uppercase

Show registers content

Yank into register x

Paste contents of register x

Yank into the system clipboard register

Paste from the system clipboard register

Last yank

Unnamed register, last delete or yank

Current file name

Alternate file name

Clipboard contents (X11 primary)

Clipboard contents (X11 clipboard)

Last search pattern

Last command-line

Last inserted text

Last small (less than a line) delete

Expression register

Black hole register

List of marks

Set current position for mark A

Jump to position of mark A

Yank text to position of mark A

Go to the position where Vim was previously exited

Go to the position when last editing this file

Go to the position of the last change in this file

Go to the position before the last jump

List of jumps

Go to newer position in jump list

Go to older position in jump list

List of changes

Go to newer position in change list

Go to older position in change list

Jump to the tag under cursor

Record macro a

Stop recording macro

Run macro a

Rerun last run macro

Yank (copy) a line

Yank (copy) 2 lines

Yank (copy) the characters of the word from the cursor position to the start of the next word

Yank (copy) to end of line

Put (paste) the clipboard after cursor

Put (paste) before cursor

Delete (cut) a line

Delete (cut) 2 lines

Delete (cut) the characters of the word from the cursor position to the start of the next word

Delete (cut) to the end of the line

Delete (cut) to the end of the line

Delete (cut) character

Indent (move right) line one shiftwidth

De-indent (move left) line one shiftwidth

Indent a block with () or {} (cursor on brace)

Indent inner block with ()

Indent a block with <> tags

Re-indent 3 lines

Re-indent a block with () or {} (cursor on brace)

Re-indent inner block with {}

Re-indent entire buffer

Paste and adjust indent to current line

Write (save) the file, but don't exit

Write out the current file using sudo

Write (save) and quit

Quit (fails if there are unsaved changes)

Quit and throw away unsaved changes

Write (save) and quit on all tabs

Search for pattern

Search backward for pattern

'Very magic' pattern: non-alphanumeric characters are interpreted as special regex symbols (no escaping needed)

Repeat search in same direction

Repeat search in opposite direction

Replace all old with new throughout file

Replace all old with new throughout file with confirmations

Remove highlighting of search matches

Search for pattern in multiple files

Jump to the next match

Jump to the previous match

Open a window containing the list of matches

Close the quickfix window

Open a file in a new tab

Move the current split window into its own tab

Move to the next tab

Move to the previous tab

Move to tab number #

Move current tab to the #th position (indexed from 0)

Close the current tab and all its windows

Close all tabs except for the current one

Command - run the command on all tabs (e.g. :tabdo q - closes all opened tabs)

Edit a file in a new buffer

Go to the next buffer

Go to the previous buffer

Delete a buffer (close a file)

Go to a buffer by index #

Go to a buffer by file

List all open buffers

Open a file in a new buffer and split window

Open a file in a new buffer and vertically split window

Edit all buffers as vertical windows

Edit all buffers as tabs

Split window

Split window vertically

Switch windows

Quit a window

Exchange current window with next one

Make all windows equal height & width

Move cursor to the left window (vertical split)

Move cursor to the right window (vertical split)

Move cursor to the window below (horizontal split)

Move cursor to the window above (horizontal split)

Manually define a fold up to motion

Delete fold under the cursor

Toggle fold under the cursor

Open fold under the cursor

Close fold under the cursor

Reduce (open) all folds by one level

Fold more (close) all folds by one level

Toggle folding functionality

Jump to start of next change

Jump to start of previous change

Obtain (get) difference (from other buffer)

Put difference (to other buffer)

Make current window part of diff

Update differences

Switch off diff mode for current window