vim

vim is a customizable, highly modal text editor. The wikipedia page has good history and overview.

And, of course, you can read the user manual.

Cheat Sheet

Files

• Exit / save and exit / discard and exit: :q :wq :q!
• Load / save / close pane: :edit file :saveas file :close

Movement

• Move left/down/up/right: h j k l
• Move by word left/right/right (end of word): b w e
• Move by paragraph: { }
• Move to matching brace/character: %
• Move to start/non-WS-start/end of line: 0 ^ $
• Move to start/end of document: gg G
• Move to line N: Ngg
• Search forward / search next: /SEARCH n
• Search token under cursor / back: * #

Editing

• Undo / redo: u Ctrl+r
• Insert before/after cursor/open line below/above: i a o O
• Visual mode: v
• Copy / paste / copy clipboard / paste clipboard / copy line: y p "*y "*p yy
• Delete character, through end line, through end of file: x D dG
• Replace OLD with NEW in file/with confirmation: :%s/OLD/NEW/g :%s/OLD/NEW/gc
• Exit insert mode: Esc or Ctrl+c

Buffers

• List buffers: :ls
• Edit new file: :e PATH
• Switch: :b FILE
• Switch to next/previous/last: :bn :bp :b#

Tabs

• Next and previous tabs: :tabn :tabp
• Edit new tab: :tabe PATH
• Split horizontally/vertically with optional PATH: :sp PATH :vs PATH
• Move splitscreen: Ctrl+W followed by next/prev/direction w W arrow
• Close current/others: Ctrl+W c Ctrl+W o

Fancy Stuff

• (UNIX) Exit to shell, come back: Ctrl+Z, fg

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