Joins the line the cursor is on with the line below Retrace your movements in file in forwards Retrace your movements in file in backward (delete till dot) or df.(delete till dot included) Move current line to the bottom of the screen Move current line to the top of the screen Only change the cursor position if it would be moved off-screen, same as Ctrl-e Move the screen down one page, cursor to the first line Move the screen up one page, cursor to the last line Spit current document in two horizontally Split into two windows, top half and bottom half
#Vim mac cheat sheet windows#
Paste from system clipboard on Windows (or from "mouse highlight" clipboard on Linux)ĭelete the current tag (and all its content)įind character and move cursor at position įind character and move cursor at one position before Įxpand selection to that, similar including aĬlose all tabs and keep open only the focused one Please, note some of these commands are not supported by VSCodeVim yet.Īppend to a register by using a capital letter To access a register, you type a before a command, where a is the name of a register. Registers in Vim let you run actions or commands on text stored within them. Redo the last undo (sidenote: in vim undo/redo forms a tree, changes aren’t lost) Move to the beginning of the line and switch to insert mode Toggles block comment, example gCi to comment out everything within parenthesisĬhange inner word will change the whole word under the cursorĬhange the word from the current cursor positionįind the next instance of the search termįind the previous instance of the search term Toggles line comment, example gcc to toggle line comment for the current line and gc2j to toggle line comments for the current line and the next line Select all content inside curly braces including braces Select all content inside curly braces excluding braces Visualize all content inside that including delimiter Visualize all content inside that excluding delimiter
Jump to the next instance of the word under Īre common commands to move a line one down / up Outdent line (shift line one shiftwidth leftwards) Indent line (shift line one shiftwidth rightwards)
Jump to the previous instance of the word under Move to the current line (useful for making commands line-based) Jump to the matching parenthesis (vim understands nested parenthesis) Like t but instead of finding a character, it finds a regexp Move to the first non-whitespace character on the line Move to the very beginning of the current line Scroll the line with the cursor to the bottom Scroll the line with the cursor to the top Scroll the line with the cursor to the center of the screen Move, equivalent to the arrow keys left, down, up, right
Nouns or movements are commands for moving within the document or representing an area within a document. WORD (consists of a sequence of non-blank characters, separated with white space) Open a line before the current one and enter insert modeįind. Open a line after the current one and enter insert mode Replace the character under the cursor ĭelete the character under the curser and puts you into insert modeĭelete current line and then enter insert mode (same as cc)Īppend and enter insert mode after the caratĪppend to line (enter insert mode at the end of the line) CommandsĮnter visual mode and select current lineĭelete current line and then enter insert modeĭelete from the cursor position to the end of the line then enter insert modeĭelete (remove from the document and put in buffer)ĭelete from the cursor position to the end of the lineĮnter insert mode at the beginning of the line You can also add a count to perform the action count times. Forming objects generally involves the use of a modifier. The targets could be objects (words, sentences, paragraphs, lines, the contents of parentheses) or movements (jump to the end of a word, jump to end of the paragraph, jump forward until the letter ‘e’, etc). Vim commands are formed from a combination of verbs and targets. Vim is a powerful text editor, this document is not exhaustive. In this document, I'll share with you my Vim learnings, listing everyday commands, nouns, and movements I found useful to be more productive in everyday coding. Vim Cheat Sheet, useful commands compatible with VSCodeVim for Microsoft Visual Studio Code.