Vim Keyboard Shortcuts | vim shortcuts

Hello in this article. I will show you shortcut keys for vim. With the help of vim, you can do everything with a keyboard which means, you won’t need a mouse to move around the code. The main purpose of vim is to save your time which simply means you will be on laser-sharp focus on code rather than wasting time on moving your mouse etc.

Editing Shortcuts

Action	Shortcuts
To Replace a single character	r
To Join the line below to the current one	j
To Change an entire line	cc
To Change to the end of the word	cw
To Change to the end of line	c$
To Delete the character at the cursor and substitute text	s
To Delete line at the cursor and substitute text	S
To Transpose two letters	xp
To Undo	u
To Repeat the last command	.

 

Cursor Movement Shortcuts

Action	Shortcuts
To Move left	h
To Move down	j
To Move up	k
To Move right	l
To Jump by the start of words	w
To Jump by words	W
To Jump to end of words	e
To Jump to end of words no punctuation	E
To Jump backwards by wordsv	b
To Jump backwards by words no punctuation	B
To Start of line	0
To First non-blank character of the line	^
To End of line	$
To Go To command	G
To Start insert mode at the cursor	i
To Insert at the beginning of the line	I
To Append after the cursor	a
To Append at the end of the line	A
To Open blank line below the current line	o
To Open blank line above the current line	O
To Append at end word	ea
To Exit insert mode	Esc

 

Visual Mode Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
To Start visual mode, mark lines, then do command	v
To Start Linewise visual mode	V
To Move to other ends of the marked area	o
To Start visual block mode	Ctrl + V
To Move to other corners of the block	O
To Mark a word	aw
To A () block	ab
To A {} block	aB
To Inner () block	ib
To Inner {} block	iB
To Exit visual mode	Esc

 

To Cut & Paste Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
To Yank (copy) a line	yy
To Yank 2 lines	2yy
To Yank word	yw
To Yank to end of line	y$
To Paste the clipboard after the cursor	p
To Paste before the cursor	P
To Cut a line	dd
To Cut the current word	dw
To Cut current character	x

 

Visual Commands Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
To Shift right	>
To Shift left	<
To yank marked text	y
To Delete marked text	d
To Switch case	~

 

 

Search & Replace Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
To Search for pattern	/pattern
To Search backward for pattern	?pattern
To Repeat the search in the same direction	n
To Repeat the search in the opposite direction	N
To Replace all old with new throughout the file	:%s/old/new/g
To Replace all old with new throughout the file with confirmations	:%s/old/new/gc

 

Working with Files Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
To Edit a file in a new buffer	:e filename
To Go to the next buffer	:bnext
To Go to the previous buffer	:bprev
To Delete a buffer	:bd
To Open a file in a new buffer and split the window	:sp filename
To Split windows	Ctrl + ws
To Switch between windows	Ctrl + ww
To Quit a window	Ctrl + wq
To Split windows vertically	Ctrl + wv

 

Exit Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
To Write (save) the file, but doesn’t exist	:w
To Write (save) and quit	:wq
To Quit (fails if anything has changed)	:q
To Quit and throw away changes	:q!

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