30 Vim Commands You Need To Know by typecraft

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• quit: :q, :wq to write and quit, :x does similar, :q! quits without saving, :wq! forces overwrite
• search and replace: :s/hello/world, :s/hello/world/g, :s@hello@wor/ld@g
  • Read up on vim regular expressions.
• search: /regex search forward; ?regex search backwards; n to go to next match (forward with /, backward with ?), N to go in the opposite direction.
• motions: ciw = change in word, cw = change to end of word, caw = change around word, ciW = change in word.
  • words: w vs W is syntactic vs whitespace, so e.g. w will see hello+world as two words, so ciw within hello would replace hello, whereas W will see hello+world as one word, so ciW will change all of hello+world.
  • delimiters: b = parens, B = braces; {, <, (, [, ', " and also for backquotes
• visual: v to select characters, V to select rows, <C-v> to select columns (i.e. rectangular block)
  • yank: y will copy whatever is selected, "qy will copy whatever is selected to register q
  • change: c will change whatever is selected
  • delete: d will delete whatever is selected and put it in the default register (so is kind of 'cut')
• registers:
  • yank, delete, put: "qy yanks to register q, "wd cut to register w, "ep put after from register e
• macros:
  • record: qa...keysq records a macro into register a
  • replay: @a will run macro a, 10@a will run macro a ten times