Getting Started

Motion Diagrams

▼/▶ Cursor   ▽/▷ Target

Left-right motions

┌───────────── |
├───────────── 0      $ ──────────────┐
│  ┌────────── ^      fe ────────┐    │
│  │  ┌─────── Fo     te ───────┐│    │
│  │  │┌────── To     30| ───┐  ││    │
│  │  ││ ┌──── ge     w ───┐ │  ││    │
│  │  ││ │ ┌── b      e ─┐ │ │  ││    │
│  │  ││ │ │  ┌h      l┐ │ │ │  ││    │
▽  ▽  ▽▽ ▽ ▽  ▽▼      ▼▽ ▽ ▽ ▽  ▽▽    ▽
   echo "A cheatsheet from quickref.me"

Up-down motions

                 - SCREEN 1 START
   ┌─┬─────────▷ #!/usr/bin/python
   │ │     ┌───▷
   │ │     │     print("Hello")
   │ │     { } ▶ print("Vim")
   │ │       │   print("!")
   │ │       └─▷
   │ │ ┌───┬───▷ print("Welcome")
G gg H M L k j ▶ print("to")
│        │   └─▷ print("cheatsheets.zip")
│        │       print("/vim")
│        │
│        └─────▷
│                - SCREEN 1 END
└──────────────▷ print("SCREEN 2")

Motions

Shortcut	Description
h | j | k | l	Arrow keys
<C-u> / <C-d>	Half-page up/down
<C-b> / <C-f>	Page up/down

Words

Shortcut	Description
b / w	Previous/Next word
ge / e	Previous/Next end of word

Line

Shortcut	Description
0 (zero) / $	Start/End of line
^	Start of line (non-blank)

Character

Shortcut	Description
Fe / fe	Move to previous/next e
To / to	Move before/after previous/next o
|/ n|	Go to first/nth column

Document

Shortcut	Description
gg / G	First/Last line
:n | nG	Go to line n
} / {	Next/Previous empty line

Window

Shortcut	Description
H / M / L	Top/Middle/Bottom screen
zt / zz / zb	Top/Center/Bottom this line

Insert Mode

Shortcut	Description
i / a	Insert before/after cursor
I / A	Insert start/end of line
o / O (letter)	Insert new line below/above
s / S	Delete char/line and insert
C / cc	Change to end of/current line
gi	Insert at last insert point
Esc | <C-[>	Exit insert mode

Saving and Exiting

Shortcut	Description
:w	Save
:q	Close file
:wq | :x | ZZ	Save and quit
:wqa	Save and quit all files
:q! | ZQ	Force quit
:qa	Close all files
:qa!	Force quit all files
:w now.txt	Write to now.txt
:sav new.txt	Save and edit new.txt
:w !sudo tee %	Write to readonly file

Normal Mode

Shortcut	Description
r	Replace one character
R	Enter Replace mode
u / 3u	Undo changes 1 / 3 times
U	Undo changes on one line
J	Join with next line
<C-r> / 5 <C-r>	Redo changes 1 / 5 times

Cut and paste

Shortcut	Description
x	Delete character (Cut)
p / P	Paste after/before
xp	Swap two characters
D	Delete to end of line (Cut)
dw	Delete word (Cut)
dd	Delete line (Cut)
ddp	Swap two lines
yy	Yank line (Copy)
"*p | "+p	Paste from system clipboard
"*y | "+y	Paste to system clipboard

In visual mode

Shortcut	Description
d | x	Delete selection (Cut)
s	Replace selection
y	Yank selection (Copy)

Repeating

Shortcut	Description
.	Repeat last command
;	Repeat latest f, t, F or T
,	Repeat latest f, t, F or T reversed
&	Repeat last :s
@:	Repeat a command-line command

Visual mode

Shortcut	Description
v	Enter visual mode
V	Enter visual line mode
<C-v>	Enter visual block mode
ggVG	Select all text
> / <	Shift text right/left

Macros

-	-
qi	Record macro i
q	Stop recording macro
@i	Run macro i
7@i	Run macro i 7 times
@@	Repeat last macro

You can save macro for any letters not just i

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