Vi Command Cheat Sheet

Quittin Motion Buffers

:x Exit, saving changes h Move left Named buffers may be specified before any deletion, change, yank or put
:q Exit as long as there have been no changes j Move down command, The general prefix has the form "c where c is any lowercase
ZZ Exit and save changes if any have been made k Move up character. for example, "adw deletes a word into buffer a, It may
:q! Exit and ignore any changes I Move right thereafter be put back into text with an appropriate "ap.
w Move to next word
Insertino Text W Move to next blank delim ited word Markers
Insert before cursor b Move to the beginning of the word Named markers may be set on any line in a file. Any lower case leiter
Insert before line B Move to the beginning of blank delimited word ma be a marker name. Markers ma also be used as limits for ran es.
a Append after cursor e Move to the end of the word mc Set marker c on this line
A Append after line E Move to the end of blank delimited word 'c Go to beginning of marker cline.
o Open a new line after current line ( Move a sentence back 'c Go to first non-blank character of marker clin e.
o Open a new line before current line ) Move a sentence forward
Replace one character { Move a paragraph back Replace
R IReplace many characters } Move a paragraph forward The search and replace function is accomplished with the :s command. It
o Move to the beginning of the line is commonl used in combination with ran es or the: command below.
Deleting Text $ Move to the end of the line :sfpatternfstring/flags Replace pattern with string according to flags.
Almost all deletion commands are performed by G Move to the first line of the file g Flag - Replace all occurrences of pattern
t ing d followed by a motion, G Move to the last line of the file c Flag - Confirm replaces.
dw Delete word nG Move to nth line of the file & Repeat last :s command
x Delete character to the right of cursor :n Move to nth line of the file
X Delete character to the left of cursor fc Move forward to c Counts
D Delete to the end of the line Fc Move back to c
dd Delete current line H Move to top of screen Nearly every command may be preceded by a number that specifies how
:d Delete current line M Move to middle of screen many times it is to be performed. For example, 5dw will delete 5 words
L Move to button of screen
Yanking Text Ctrl+u Page up
Almost all yank commands are performed by typing Ctrl+d Page down Ranges
followed bv a motion. % Move to associated ( ), { }, [ 1 Ranges may precede most "colon" commands and cause them to be
y$IYank to the end of the line executed on a line or IinesJ'or example :3,7d would delete lines 3-7.
yy Yank the current line Search for strinas :n,m I Range Lines n-m
:y Yank the current line fstring Search forward for string Range - Current line
?string Search back for string :$ Range - Last line
Changing text n Search for next instance of string :'c Range - Marker c
The change command is a deletion command that N Search for previous instance of string :% Range - All lines in file
leaves the editor in insert mode, It is performed by :g/pattern/ Range - All lines that contain pattern
Ping c followed by a motion.
Other

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cw Change word
TOggle capital and lower-case
Files
C Change to the end of the line
J Join lines
:wfile Write to file
cc Change the whole line
. Repeat last text-changing command
:r file Read file in after line
u Undo last change
:n Go to next file
PuUi no text
U Undo all changes to line
:p Go to previous file
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Put after the position or after the line

Put before the position or before the line

:e file Edit file

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