Getting Started

Vim Action = Operator + Motion

Operators

Trigger	Effect
`c`	Change
`d`	Delete
`y`	Yank
`g~`	Switch case
`gu`	Lowercase
`gU`	Uppercase
`>`	Shift right
`<`	Shift left
`=`	Autoindent

Custom Operator

Trigger	Effect	Plugin
`z`	to the next search result	vim-sneak
`s`	to surround text object with quotes, brackets or HTML tags	vim-srround

Motions

Left-Right Motions

Trigger	Effect
`h`	characters to the left
`l`	characters to the left
`0`	to the first character of the line
`^`	to the first non-blank character of the line
`$`	to the end of the line
`f{char}`	to the first occurrence of {char} to the right
`F{char}`	to the first occurrence of {char} to the left
`t{char}`	till before the first occurrence of {char} to the right
`T{char}`	till before the first occurrence of {char} to the left

Up-Down Motions

Trigger	Effect
`j`	line downward linewise
`k`	line upward linewise
`gg`	goto line [count], default first line
`G`	goto line [count], default last line

Word-Motions

Trigger	Effect
`w`	jump by start of words (punctuation considered words)
`W`	jump by words (spaces separate words)
`e`	jump to end of words (punctuation considered words)
`E`	jump to end of words (no punctuation)
`b`	jump to start of words (punctuation considered words)
`B`	jump to start of words (no punctuation)

Text Object Motions

Trigger	Effect
`(`	sentences backward
`)`	sentences forward
`{`	paragraphs backward
`}`	paragraphs forward

Text Object Selection

Modifiers	Effect
`a`	a ..., leading or trailing white space is included, but not counted.
`i`	inner ..., white space between words is counted too.

Object	Effect
`w` `W`	word
`s`	sentence
`p`	paragraph
`[` `]`	bracket block
`{` `}`	brace block
`(` `)`	parenthesis block
`<` `>`	angle bracket block
`t`	html tag block
`"` `'`	quote block

Vim Tips

Number Increment and Decrement

Pressing C-a or C-x to increse or decrease a number by 1. If the current cursor is not a number, it will find the first number of the current line.

Multiline Operation

Press C-v to enter Visual-Block mode, then select target lines, then do operation on one line. For insert, use I to enter insert mode.

Make Correction in Insert Mode

Keystrokes	Effect
`C-h`	delete back one character
`C-w`	delete back one word
`C-u`	delete back one line

Go back to Normal Mode in Insert Mode

Keystrokes	Effecct
`Esc`	switch to normal mode
`C-[`	switch to normal mode
`C-o`	switch to insert-normal mode

In insert-normal mode, we can excute a single command then switch to insert mode immediately.

Paste from a Register without Leaving Insert Mode

Pressing C-r {register} in insert mode.

Pressing C-r C-p {register} to insert text literally and fix any unintended indentation.

Evaluate an Expression from Register

Pressing C-r={expression} to evaluate an expression and paste it directly without leaving insert mode.

Insert Character From ASCII Code or Unicode

From insert mode, type C-v{code} with a three-digit number to insert a character.

For example, A can be inserted with C-v065.

Unicode characters can be inserted using a four-digit hexademical code.

For example, ¿ can be inserted with C-vu00bf.

Besides, we can insert character literal by using C-v{char}.

For example, we can insert a tab with C-v<Tab>.

Insert Digraph in Insert Mode

æ can be inserted using C-vae, and ¿ can be inserted using C-v?I.

Overwriting Text with Replace Mode

Press R to enter replace mode, then the following typed characters will overwrite existing text.

A tab character is visually of multi-character length, but it represents a single character. And replace mode treats a tab as s single character.

In virtual replace mode, triggered by pressing gR, a tab chracter is treated as multuple characters as in tabstop setting.

Use r{char} or gr{char} to apply a single replacement.

Selecting with Visual Mode

There're three visual mode variants, character-wise, line-wise and block-wise visual mode, triggered by v V C-v respectively.

In visual mode, one end of the selected text is fixed, and the other moves freely with our cursor. We can use o to go to the other end of selected text.

Press gv to reselected the last visual selection.