VIM Cheat sheet

WladyX — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:52:13 +0000

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Vim Tip: using “paste” to avoid the staircase effect

WladyX — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:21:34 +0000

:set paste

http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2009/12/22/vim-tip-using-paste-to-avoid-the-staircase-effect/

Vim Tutorial

WladyX — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:20:24 +0000

Vim Tutorial

VIM basics

WladyX — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:30:22 +0000

Vim Basics « Helpful Linux Tidbits

Quick and Dirty : Vimdiff Tutorial

WladyX — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:07:45 +0000

Keyboard Shortcuts:

do - Get changes from other window into the current window.

dp – Put the changes from current window into the other window.

]c – Jump to the next change.

[c - Jump to the previous change.

Ctrl W + Ctrl W – Switch to the other split window.

Core Dump: Quick and Dirty : Vimdiff Tutorial

Vim Cheat Sheet

WladyX — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:14:57 +0000

Working with files
Vim command	Action
:e filename	Open a new file. You can use the Tab key for automatic file name completion, just like at the shell command prompt.
:w filename	Save changes to a file. If you don’t specify a file name, Vim saves as the file name you were editing. For saving the file under a different name, specify the file name.
:q	Quit Vim. If you have unsaved changes, Vim refuses to exit.
:q!	Exit Vim without saving changes.
:wq	Write the file and exit.
: x	Almost the same as :wq, write the file and exit if you’ve made changes to the file. If you haven’t made any changes to the file, Vim exits without writing the file.
Moving in the file
These Vim commands and keys work both in command mode and visual mode.
Vim command	Action
j or Up Arrow	Move the cursor up one line.
k or Down Arrow	Down one line.
l or Right Arrow	Right one character.
h or Left Arrow	Left one character.
e	To the end of a word.
E	To the end of a whitespace-delimited word.
b	To the beginning of a word.
B	To the beginning of a whitespace-delimited word.
0	To the beginning of a line.
^	To the first non-whitespace character of a line.
$	To the end of a line.
H	To the first line of the screen.
M	To the middle line of the screen.
L	To the the last line of the screen.
:n	Jump to line number n. For example, to jump to line 42, you’d type :42
Inserting and overwriting text
Vim command	Action
i	Insert before cursor.
I	Insert to the start of the current line.
a	Append after cursor.
A	Append to the end of the current line.
o	Open a new line below and insert.
O	Open a new line above and insert.
C	Change the rest of the current line.
r	Overwrite one character. After overwriting the single character, go back to command mode.
R	Enter insert mode but replace characters rather than inserting.
The ESC key	Exit insert/overwrite mode and go back to command mode.
Deleting text
Vim command	Action
x	Delete characters under the cursor.
X	Delete characters before the cursor.
dd or :d	Delete the current line.
Entering visual mode
Vim command	Action
v	Start highlighting characters. Use the normal movement keys and commands to select text for highlighting.
V	Start highlighting lines.
The ESC key	Exit visual mode and return to command mode.
Editing blocks of text
The Vim commands marked with (V) work in visual mode, when you’ve selected some text. The other commands work in the command mode, when you haven’t selected any text.
Vim command	Action
~	Change the case of characters. This works both in visual and command mode. In visual mode, change the case of highlighted characters. In command mode, change the case of the character uder cursor.
> (V)	Shift right.
< (V)	Shift left.
c (V)	Change the highlighted text.
y (V)	Yank the highlighted text. In Winblows terms, “copy the selected text to clipboard.”
d (V)	Delete the highlighted text. In Winblows terms, “cut the selected text to clipboard.”
yy or :y or Y	Yank the current line. You don’t need to highlight it first.
dd or :d	Delete the current line. Again, you don’t need to highlight it first.
p	In Winblows terms, “paste” the contents of the “clipboard”. In Vim terms, you “put” the text you yanked or deleted. Put characters after the cursor. Put lines below the current line.
P	Put characters before the cursor. Put lines above the current line.
Undo and redo
Vim command	Action
u	Undo the last action.
U	Undo all the latest changes that were made to the current line.
Ctrl + r	Redo.
Search
Vim command	Action
/pattern	Search the file for pattern.
n	Scan for next search match in the same direction.
N	Scan for next search match but opposite direction.
Replace
Vim command	Action
:rs/foo/bar/a	Substitute foo with bar. r determines the range and a determines the arguments.
The range (r) can be
nothing	Work on current line only.
number	Work on the line whose number you give.
%	The whole file.
Arguments (a) can be
g	Replace all occurrences in the line. Without this, Vim replaces only the first occurrences in each line.
i	Ignore case for the search pattern.
I	Don’t ignore case.
c	Confirm each substitution. You can type y to substitute this match, n to skip this match, a to substitute this and all the remaining matches (“Yes to all”), and q to quit substitution.
Examples
:452s/foo/bar/	Replace the first occurrence of the word foo with bar on line number 452.
:s/foo/bar/g	Replace every occurrence of the word foo with bar on current line.
:%s/foo/bar/g	Replace every occurrence of the word foo with bar in the whole file.
:%s/foo/bar/gi	The same as above, but ignore the case of the pattern you want to substitute. This replaces foo, FOO, Foo, and so on.
:%s/foo/bar/gc	Confirm every substitution.
:%s/foo/bar/c	For each line on the file, replace the first occurrence of foo with bar and confirm every substitution.

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VIM – Comment blocks of code

WladyX — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:46:28 +0000

Mark the area which is to be commented using the *blockwise* visual mode (CTRL-V, in Windows this is CTRL-Q).

Press I (capital i) and write the text you want to prepend to each line of the selected block, e.g. %.

Then press ESC and the text will be inserted to the left of each line of the selected block.

VIM – Comment blocks of code « Not So Frequently Asked Questions

Vimrc

WladyX — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:08:09 +0000

set background=dark set incsearch set ignorecase map :w map dd map :q map :set hls!set hls? set noautoindent set hlsearch set tabstop=4

Ubuntu vim syntax

WladyX — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:42:17 +0000

Q. I am using vim under Ubuntu Linux and whenever I type following command:
syntax on

Iâ€™m getting an error which read as follows:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax on

How do I fix this problem?

A. Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be
used to edit all kinds of plain text. It is especially useful for
editing programs.

There are a lot of enhancements above Vi: multi level undo, multi
windows and buffers, syntax highlighting, command line editing,
filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc

Ubuntu Linux comes with tiny version of vim.

All you need to do is installed full vim version by typing following command:
$ sudo apt-get install vim

You can add syntax on command to ~/.vimrc file

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-full-vim-under-ubuntu-linux/

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