About vim

Movement

• h/j/k/l left/down/up/right
• 0/^ to first/last non-space symbol
• $/g_ to start/end of line
• w/e word forward (stop at work start/end)
• b/ge word backward (stop at work start/end)
• (/{/)/} sentence/paragraph forward/backward
• ’[/’] to start/end last change
• ’</’> to start/end last selection
• ’. to last edit
• % to matching symbol (parenthes, etc)

Visual mode

• gv restore the last selection
• aw (iw) select word (word inside)
• as/ap/at/a[/a(/a</a{/a”/a’/a` select sentence, paragraph, tag, parenthes, quotes

Marks

• m{a-zA-Z} set mark
• '{a-zA-Z} go to mark (a-z - in current file, A-Z0-9 - in all files)
• '. go to last edit
• '[/’] to start/end last change
• '</’> to start/end last selection
• :marks show marks

Registers

• 0 last copy
• 1-9 last 9 deletions (stack)
• a-z named; copy to ‘A’ appends value to ‘a’
• . last insert
• +/* clipboard (primary/secondary)
• / last search
• _ “black hole”

Implicit register set - use ", e.g. "ayy = copy current line to register ‘a’.

Misc

Later ‘[]’ = movement commands

• g8 show hex value of a symbol under cursor
• g^ go to leftmost nonspace
• g_ go to rightmost nonspace
• g~[] change case
• gu lowecase
• gU uppercase
• f/F{} go to N-th symbol ‘{}’ (N should set before command)
• ; repeat last ‘f/F’
• , repeat last ‘f/F’ in the reverse direction
• z update screen