Useful Vim key bindings

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Useful Vim key bindings

movement

• 0 - beginning of line
• ^ - beginning of non-whitespace
• $ - end of line
• 9j - move down 9 lines
• w - move forward by word
• b - move backward by word
• gg - first line
• G - last line
• C-u - up half page
• C-d - down half page
• f/ - move forward to first "/" character
• t/ - move forward right before the first "/" character
• ; - repeat that command again
• H - head of the screen
• M - middle of the screen
• L - last of the screen
• } - move forward by paragraph or block
• { - move backwards by paragraph or block
• * - search for word under the cursor
• n - search again forward
• N - search again backwards
• # - search backwards for word under cursor
• / - search forward
• ? - search backward
• % - find matching brace, paren, etc
• ma - mark a line in a file with marker "a"
• ``a` - after moving around, go back to the exact position of marker "a"
• 'a - after moving around, go back to line of marker "a"
• :marks - view all the marks
• '' - go to the last place you were

editing

• x - delete char under cursor
• X - delete char before cursor
• A - add to end of line
• I - insert at the beginning of the line
• dd - delete line
• D - delete from cursor to end of line
• di' - delete text inside single quotes
• yy - copy line
• Y - copy from cursor to end of line
• cc - change line
• C - change from cursor to end of line
• cit - change text inside html tag
• ci' - change text inside single quotes
• ci{ - change text inside curly brackets.
• ci... - etc
• p - paste after cursor
• P - paste before cursor
• o - add line below
• O - add line above
• . = repeat last comment
• r - replace character
• R - replace. (overwrite) (good for columns of text)
• J - join line (cursor can be anywhere on line)

visual mode

• v - visual char mode
• V - visual line mode
• C-v - block visual mode