vimpractical.md

GENERAL

• <Esc> - exit current mode (back to NORMAL) -or- cancel current command
• number<command> - repeat <command> x number of times

MOVEMENT

k

h j l - basic arrow keys

Scan on current line

• f_ - find character
• F_ - reverse find
• t_ - find till character (stop before character)
• T_ - reverse find till character (stop after character)
• ; - repeat previous scan movement
• , - repeat previous scan movement in reverse

Word-Wise

• w - jump forwards to beginning of next word
• W - jump forwards to beginning of next WORD
• b - jump backwards to beginning of next word
• B - jump backwards to beginning of next WORD
• e - jump forwards to end of next word (reverse with ge)
• E - jump forwards to end of next WORD (reverse with gE)

<Aside: word vs. WORD>

A WORD is just a bigger version of a word. words are separated by whitespace and punctuation. WORDS are only separated by whitespace. Example: test.api.py is a file has 8 words but only 4 WORDS.

Line-Based

• 0 - jump to beginning of line (column 0)
• ^ - jump to first ^o^-whitespace character
• $ - jump to end of line (la$T character)

Other

• % - jump to matching character of a match pair
  • Default Pairs: () [] {}
  • :h matchpairs for more info

EDITING

Insert

• i - enter iNSERT mode before cursor
• I - enter INSERT mode at beginning of line
• a - enter INSERT mode after cursor
• A - enter INSERT mode After the line

Deleting and Changing

• d_<movement>_ - delete up to movement
• c_<movement>_ - change up to movement
• cc - change the current line (delete & replace)
• dd - delete the current line
• cc - change the current line (delete & replace)
• D - delete to end of line
• C - change to end of line