Vim Tips

Here is some useful Vim tips

Normal

• V multiline copy

• . duplicate last command

• I insert at the begin

• A Append to end

• J Join two lines

• > and < indent block(in visual mode)

• CTRL + A or X increase or decrease the number

• ~ toggle the casing of a letter/selection(upper-case/down-case)

• !! execute last command

• <start position><command><end position> for example y`a yank from here to he marked a

• use markers in the way a z b e

• "zyy and "zp copy to z register and paste from z register

• set ft=? look up current file type.

Move

• % go to the corresponding (),{},[]

• mz `z Marker and go to the last position

• '. Jump back to last edited line

• g;and g, move (forward,backward) through the changelist

• gi go to the last place you inserted a text

• Ctrl-o and Ctrl-i to go to the previous/next location you jumped to

• fa go to the next a in the line

• t, go to before the next ,

• F and T are backward

• w go to the start of the next word

• b/e go to the beginning/end of this word

• W go to the start of the following WORD(space separated only)

• B/E go to the beginning/end of this WORD

• { } to move to the beginning/ending of the paragraph

• zz move current line to the middle of the screen

• zt move current line to the top of the screen

• zt move current line to the bottom of the screen

• Ctrl+e move screen up one line

• Ctrl+y move screen down one line

Zone selection

<action>a<object> and <action>i<object>

Action can be any action, for example d, y, c(change), v(select in visual mode). The object can be: w a word, W a WORD, s a sentence, p a paragraph. But also, natural character such as ",',),],}

vi" will select foo.

va" will select “foo”

Editing

• cc change the entire current line

• r replace the current character

• R Enter Insert mode, replacing characters rather than inserting

Macro recording

/bin/bash: :q: command not found

• q[ key ] to start recording

• q to stop recording

• @[ key ] to use the macro ```