VIM: quick look up

Basic Editing

• x to delete the current word where cursor is at
• A to append, it doesn't matter which line
• dw to delete a word
• d$ to delete everything from there

Movement

• 2w moves the cursor two words forward
• 3e moves the cursor to the end of 3rd word
• e to move cursor word by word

Deletion

• d3w deletes 3 words from current cursor
• dd to delete a whole line (it also puts it in the register which u can use to rearrange line by using p later)

Replace

• rx to replace the word ur cursor is on
• R to replace more than one word

Change

• c [number] motion to change and get into insert mode

Line Navigation

• ctrl g to check current line number
• gg to end of file
• G to start of file
• number g to go to that line

Search

• /[word] to search in forward direction ?[word] in reverse
• press n to loop through, N in reverse
• % to find matching closing parenthesis

Substitution

• :s/oldword/newword replaces the old word with new word in the current line of cursor
• adding g to the above command in end, will substitute globally in that line
• :#,#s/old/new/g replaces in range which is defined in #
• :#,#s/old/new/gc replaces in range which is defined in # with a confirmation prompt

External Commands

• :! ! after this any external command, then u don't have to leave vim

Opening Lines

• o to open a line below the cursor
• O to open a line above
• a to append a word to end of word

Yank (Copy/Paste)

• y to yank (copy) after entering into visual mode and then j$ to end of next line and pressing p to put the copied text