VIM shortcuts and tips

My personal guidelines, and only added shortcuts tested by myself.

Edit remote file
Delete specific line via terminal
Related Links

Moving

e Move to the end of a word.
w Move forward to the beginning of a word.
3w Move forward three words.
W Move forward a WORD (any non-whitespace characters).
b Move backward to the beginning of a word.
3b Move backward three words.
$ Move to the end of the line.
0 Move to the beginning of the line.
^ Move to the first non-blank character of the line.
) Jump forward one sentence.
( Jump backward one sentence.
} Jump forward one paragraph.
{ Jump backward one paragraph.
j Jump forward one line.
10j Jump forward 10 lines
k Jump backward one line.
10k Jump backward 10 lines.
H Jump to the top of the screen.
M Jump to the middle of the screen.
L Jump to the bottom of the screen.
10<PageUp> or 10<CTRL-B> Move 10 pages up.
5<PageDown> or 5<CTRL-F> Move 5 pages down.
G Jump to end of file.
g Jump x screen lines in direction (up,down,left,right) - useful for moving through a long, wrapped line of text.
1G Jump to beginning of file (same as gg).
50G Jump to line 50.
'x Jump to the beginning of the line of mark x.
\x` Jump to the cursor position of mark x.
'' Return to the line where the cursor was before the latest jump. (Two single quotes.)
\`` Return to the cursor position before the latest jump (undo the jump). (Two back ticks. This is above the Tab key on some keyboards.)
'. Jump to the last-changed line.
% Jump to corresponding item, e.g. from an open brace to its matching closing brace. See Moving to matching braces for more.
| Jump to the 1st column of the current line.
42| Jump to the 42nd column of the current line.
g; Jump to the place of last edit. Can be quite helpful while debugging or editing files.
CTRL + f Jump to forward page.
CTRL + b Jump to backward page.
f<character> Move cursor on the next character ex : and, F<character> for the previous one.

Delete

Delete backward word: db
Delete forward word: dw
Delete in this point until end: d$
Delete in this point until start: d0
Elimina hacia atrás del cursor hasta delante del caracter X, la T representa (backward = hacia atrás): dT=
Elimina hacia adelante del cursor hasta atrás del caracter X, la t representa (forward = adelante): dt=
Elimina hacia atrás del cursor hasta el caracter X, la F representa (backward = hacia atrás): dF=
Elimina hacia adelante del cursor hasta el caracter X, la f representa (forward = adelante): df=
Eliminar una palabra: daw
Eliminar una palabra y poner pone en modo inserción: caw
Delete forward character: x
Delete backward character: X
Delete line: dd

Edit

Insertar texto: i
Insertar texto al final: a
Remplazar caracter: r
Copiar un caracter: y
Copia una linea: yy
Copiar lo seleccionado: y
Pegar: p
Deshacer: u
Rehacer: Ctrl + R
Regresar a la ultima linea modificada: U
Añade una nueva linea en blanco, bajo la línea actual: o
Añade una nueva linea en blanco, sobre la línea actual: O
Mueve el texto a la derecha: Shift + >
Mueve el texto a la izquierda: <
Podemos repetir estos coamdnos usando el
Mueve una linea: :m (row num)
Mueve el cursor al final de la linea listo para editar: A
Mueve el cursor al inicio de la linea listo para editar: I
~ Toggle case of current character
gUw Uppercase until end of word (u for lower, ~ to toggle)
gUiw Uppercase entire word (u for lower, ~ to toggle)
gUU Uppercase entire line
gu$ Lowercase until the end of the line
da" Delete the next double-quoted string
S Delete current line and go into insert mode
I insert at the beginning of the line

Visual Block Mode

Press Ctrl+v to enter Visual Block mode

Use arrow keys to select the ; characters you want to delete (or the other "first few characters") , press ESC to apply changes.

To insert, press Shift+I to enter in edir mode. To delete all lines selected, press x. To apply changes, press ESC.

Change

ci" - Change what’s inside the next double-quoted string
ciw - Change inside a word
ci( - Change inside parentheses
ca{ - Change inside the curly braces (try [, (, etc.)
dit - Delete inside an HTML tag, etc.

Find

?text Find this text into file.
n Repeat the find.
:noh Clear the find.
%s/\"old\"/\"new\"/g Find and replace.

Buffers

Lista los buffers: :ls
Cierra el buffer: :bd
Cambia de buffer: :b #

Windows

Divide la ventana de forma horizontal: Ctrl + w s
Divide la ventana de forma vertical: Ctrl + w v
Crea una nueva ventana: Ctrl + w n
Cierra un tab actual: Ctrl + w c
Cierra la ventana actual: Ctrl + w q
Ir a la siguiente ventana: Ctrl + w w
Abrir un nuevo fichero en otra ventana horizontal: ":sp filena"
Abrir un nuevo fichero en otra ventana vertical: ":vsp filename”
Mover al siguiente tab gt
Mover al anterior tab gT

Special Characters

Press this combination key in insert mode ctrl-k and write the code, ex: Eu. To see the special characters list, write :dig, each two-letter combination (“di-graph”) is designed to be memorable.

Edit remote file

With user and hostname:

vim scp://[email protected]//absolute/path/to/document

With ssh config name:

vim scp://ssh-config-name//absolute/path/to/document

Delete specific line via terminal

With this command you can delete the line number 13 on the file /Users/nstrappazzonc/.ssh/known_hosts.

$ vim /Users/nstrappazzonc/.ssh/known_hosts +"13d|x"

Explore file system

Type :Vex to split in vertical file ex(ploring) the files on your system if you want to use something different from :e.

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