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This Document covers some of the most commonly used vim commands:
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# Super Basic:
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# Quit Vim:
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:q (make sure to enter the colon, this is in NORMAL mode)
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:q! (quit without saving)
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# Save Document:
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:w
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:wq (save and quit)
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# Insert Text (enter INSERT mode):
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i (that's right, just hit i)
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a (enter insert mode, and put the cursor one ahead, ie append)
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# Return to NORMAL mode:
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Esc (hit the Escape key)
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# Enter VISUAL mode:
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v (from NORMAL mode, hit v, this will allow you to enter VISUAL mode)
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# Navigate the Document in NORMAL mode:
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h (go one character left)
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j (go one character down)
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k (go one character up)
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l (go one character right)
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w (go to the first character of the next word)
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e (go to the last character of the next word)
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b (go to the first character of the last word)
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0 (go to the beginning of the current line)
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$ (go to the end of the current line)
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ctrl+d (navigate down one half screen)
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ctrl+u (navigate up one half screen)
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ctrl+f (navigate down one full screen)(essentially pgdown)
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ctrl+b (navigate up one full screen)(essentially pgup)
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# Copy/Paste:
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yy or Y: copy current line, including new line character
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y$: copy to the end of current line, but not the new line character
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yiw: copy the current word, excluding surrounding whitespace
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yaw: copy the current word, including surrounding whitespace
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ytx: copy from the current cursor position up to and before the character represented by x
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yfx: copy from the current cursor position up to and including the character represented by x
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# Undo/Redo:
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u: undo
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Ctrl-R: redo
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# Indent/Unindent:
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>> : indent current line
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<< : unindent current line
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# Travel to a specific line:
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5G (takes you to line 5)
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# Page Up/ Page Down:
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CTRL + B (Page Up)
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CTRL + F (Page Down)
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# Global Search and Replace:
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:%s/word_to_replace/new_word/g
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# Delete all blank lines:
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g/^\s*$/d
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# Running Bash Commands from within Vim:
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:! <bash command>
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# Dealing with multiple files:
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#Tabs:
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To open a new tab there are a few options, one is to use the command line:
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!tabnew <filename>
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You can cycle through tabs using:
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gt or gT
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You can cycle through windows using:
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Ctrl + w or Ctrl + Shift + w
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*From NerdTree you can also simply push t to open a new tab of the file you have selected
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t
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Side Note: in NerdTree you can display hidden files by invoking capital I:
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I
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# You can open multiple files by simply typing them in sequentially after the vim command(tab auto complete works on this):
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vim item1.txt item2.txt
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# You can hope between files then with the following commands(not as effective as tabs):
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# Next
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:n
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# Previous
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:N or :prev
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# To see which files are open in the vim buffer:
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:args
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# To open up more, simply type:
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:n item3.txt
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# Note that this would only open item3.txt, it clears the buffer when you do this and so you would have to enter your total list of files.
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