Learn something new every day §

Ok, fine, I knew some of these already, but I’m no Vim Wizard. Thanks to Coderwall. If you’re interested, my vim configuration is available.

Undo, redo §

• u: undo
• U: undo entire line
• Ctrl + R: redo

Move the cursor §

• b: move backward one word
• w: move forward one word
• (: move backward one “sentence”
• ): move forward one “sentence”
• {: move backward one “paragraph”
• }: move forward one “paragraph”
• ^: move to beginning of line
• $: move to end of line
• fX: move to the next occurrence of X on this line
• FX: move to the previous occurrence of X on this line
• gg: move to beginning of file
• G: move to end of file

Note that a sentence is a sentence-ending punctuation followed by two spaces, at least according to StackOverflow and a paragraph is a block of text separated by blank lines.

Add to the file §

• a: append after the cursor
• A: append at the end of the line
• i: insert before the cursor
• I: insert at the beginning of the line
• o: insert below the current line
• O: insert above the current line

Change the file §

• ce: replace from cursor to the end of the word
• cw: replace the entire word
• c^: replace from cursor to the beginning of the line
• c$: replace from cursor to the end of the line
• C: replace from cursor to the end of the line
• dd: delete the entire line
• dXd: delete X entire lines
• d^: delete from cursor to the beginning of the line
• d$: delete from cursor to the end of the line
• de: delete from cursor to the end of the word
• dw: delete the entire word
• daw: delete the entire word and its surrounding (trailing) whitespace
• dXw: delete X entire words

Change the environment §

I probably have to look these up more often than I should.

• zg: add word (correct) to the spellfile
• zG: add word (correct) to the internal word list
• zw: add word (incorrect) to the spellfile
• zW: add word (incorrect) to the internal word list