k or Up Arrow | move the cursor up one line |
j or Down Arrow | move the cursor down one line |
e | move the cursor to the end of the word |
b | move the cursor to the begining of the word |
0 | move the cursor to the begining of the line |
G | move the cursor to the end of the line |
gg | move the cursor to the begining of the file |
L | move the cursor to the end of the file |
:59 | move cursor to line 59. Replace 59 by the desired line number. |
20| | move cursor to column 20. |
% | Move cursor to matching parenthesis |
[[ | Jump to function start |
[{ | Jump to block start |
/word | Search word from top to bottom |
?word | Search word from bottom to top |
* | Search the word under cursor |
/\cstring | Search STRING or string, case insensitive |
/jo[ha]n | Search john or joan |
/\< the | Search the, theatre or then |
/the\> | Search the or breathe |
/\< the\> | Search the |
/\< ¦.\> | Search all words of 4 letters |
/\/ | Search fred but not alfred or frederick |
/fred\|joe | Search fred or joe |
/\<\d\d\d\d\> | Search exactly 4 digits |
/^ \{3} | Find 3 empty lines |
:bufdo /searchstr/ | Search in all open files |
bufdo %s/something/somethingelse/g | Search something in all the open buffers and replace it withsomethingelse |
:%s/old/new/g | Replace all occurences of old by new in file |
:%s/onward/forward/gi | Replace onward by forward, case unsensitive |
:%s/old/new/gc | Replace all occurences with confirmation |
:2,35s/old/new/g | Replace all occurences between lines 2 and 35 |
:5,$s/old/new/g | Replace all occurences from line 5 to EOF |
:%s/^/hello/g | Replace the begining of each line by hello |
:%s/$/Harry/g | Replace the end of each line by Harry |
:%s/onward/forward/gi | Replace onward by forward, case unsensitive |
:%s/ *$//g | Delete all white spaces |
:g/string/d | Delete all lines containing string |
:v/string/d | Delete all lines containing which didn’t contain string |
:s/Bill/Steve/ | Replace the first occurence of Bill by Steve in current line |
:s/Bill/Steve/g | Replace Bill by Steve in current line |
:%s/Bill/Steve/g | Replace Bill by Steve in all the file |
:%s/^M//g | Delete DOS carriage returns (^M) |
:%s/ / /g | Transform DOS carriage returns in returns |
:%s#<[^>]\+>##g | Delete HTML tags but keeps text |
:%s/^\(.*\) \1$/\1/ | Delete lines which appears twice |
Ctrl+a | Increment number under the cursor |
Ctrl+x | Decrement number under cursor |
ggVGg? | Change text to Rot13 |
:e filename | Edit filename in current window |
:split filename | Split the window and open filename |
ctrl-w up arrow | Puts cursor in top window |
ctrl-w ctrl-w | Puts cursor in next window |
ctrl-w_ | Maximize current window vertically |
ctrl-w| | Maximize current window horizontally |
ctrl-w= | Gives the same size to all windows |
10 ctrl-w+ | Add 10 lines to current window |
:vsplit file | Split window vertically |
:sview file | Same as :split in readonly mode |
:hide | Close current window |
: nly | Close all windows, excepted current |
:b 2 | Open #2 in this window |