vim commands

insert

i	insert text before the cursor
I	insert text before first non-blank
a	append text after the cursor
A	append text at the end of line
o	insert text at a new line below current line
O	insert text at a new line above current line

copy

:[range]co[py] {address}

e.g. copy line 10-15 to line 20 (means append to current 20 line) :10,15 copy 20 more: help copy

delete

r	replace a single character
R	keep replacing character until [esc] is hit
[N]s	delete [N] characters and insert text
[N]S	delete [N] lines and insert text(same as 'cc')
[N]dd or d[N]d	delete [N] lines
[N]D	delete the characters under the cursor until the end of the line and [N-1] more lines
[N]cc	delete [N] lines and insert text(same as 'S')
[N]cw	delete [N] words(word does not include white space) and insert text
c$	delete to the end of line and insert text
:[range]d[elete] [x]	e.g. delete lines 10 to 15: :10,15 delete more: help delete

show information

Ctrl+g

display current filename and total line number

Cursor movement

    h - move left
    j - move down
    k - move up
    l - move right
    [N]| - jump to the Nth character of line
    w - jump by start of Word (punctuation considered words)
    W - jump by WORD (spaces separate words)
    e - jump to End of word (punctuation considered words)
    ge - Go to End of previous word (punctuation considered words)
    E - jump to End of WORD (no punctuation)
    gE - Go to End of previous WORD (no punctuation)
    b - jump Backward by word (punctuation considered words)
    B - jump Backward by WORD (no punctuation)
    0 - (zero) start of line
    ^ - first non-blank character of line
    g_ - Go to last non-blank character of line
    $ - end of line
    H - jump to the first line of current screen(H: Head)
    M - jump to the middle line of current screen(M:middle)
    L - jump to the last line of current screen(L:Last)
    [N]G - go to the [N] line of file(or ':N'), so, '1g' go to the first line(or ':0')
    G - Go to the last line of file(or ':$')
    gj - Go to the next visual line
    gk - Go to the previous visual line
    g^ - Go to the first non-blank character of current visual line
    g$ - Go to the end of current visual line
    gm - Go to the middle of current visual line
    

Screen movement

    CTRL-F - next page(F: Forward)
    CTRL-B - previous page(B: Backward)
    CTRL-U - previous half-page(U: Up)
    CTRL-D - next half-page(D: Down)
    CTRL-Y - screen up with one line step
    CTRL-E - screen down with one line step
    zz     - move current line to the middle of the screen
    zt     - move current line to the top of the screen
    zb     - move current line to the bottom of the screen

Edit

    u - Undo changes
    U - Undo all latest changes on one line
    J - join line below to the current one
    . - repeat last change
    xp - transpose two letters (delete and paste, technically)
    CTRL-R - Redo changes which were undone

substitution

(enter ':help subs' for more details)

:[range]s[ubstitute]/{pattern}/{string}/[flags] [count]

range

(enter ':help range' for more details)

%	the entire file, equal to 1,$

flags

(enter ':help flags' for more details)

c	confirm before substitution
g	all occurrences in the line
i	ignore case for the pattern
I	don't ignore case for the pattern
n	report the number of matches, do not actually substitute

substitution example

将countbits全文替换为bitcount:

:%s/countbits/bitcount/g

将单词our全文替换为ours(ourself中的our不在替换范围之内):

:%s/\<our\>/ours/g

References:

http://www.worldtimzone.com/res/vi.html

How to move screen without moving cursor in Vim

http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html

http://ss64.com/vi.html

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