I’ve used Vim for years, but nonetheless know that I have Vim habits that are not efficient. Today
I caught myself going into insert mode, using backspace to delete a character and then hitting
escape to go back to normal mode, instead of just pressing x. Another example was when I recently
wanted to append a letter to the end of a word. I pressed e, then the arrow key and then i,
instead of just ea.
I to enter insert mode in beginning of line.A to enter insert mode in the end of line.c if you want to delete (as d) text and then enter insert mode.ea to insert at the end of a word.w moves you to the first character of the next word.e moves you to the last character of the word.b moves you to the first character of the word (backwards).zz: Move the cursor position to the middle of the screen.ctrl + u: Move a half page up.ctrl + d: Move a half page down.ctrl + o: Move to the previous position of the jumplist.ctrl + i: Move to the next position of the jumplist.gg: Move to the top of the document.G: Move to bottom of document./: Search for string#: Move to the previous string under cursor.To return to the last position when opening a file, you can use something like,
au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") | exe "normal! g'\"" | endif.
However, you can also use,
g;: to return to the last edited position.gi: to return to the last edited position and enter insert mode.vi': Select between single quotes, '.vib: Select everything inside parenthesis block, ( and ).viB: Select everything inside curly braces block, { and }.To make the selection include quotes, parenthesis and braces change i for a.
To select between parenthesis, braces and curly braces, one can also you % in combination with
v.
x: Delete character.dw: Delete from the cursor position to the start of the next word.daw: Delete a word (together with one space) under cursor.Upper- and lowercase:
~: Toggle case for character under cursor or all selected characters.X~: Toggle case for the next X characters, where X is an integer.gUU or VU: Change current line to uppercase.guu or Vu: Change current lite to lowercase.If you have pasted or edited text, it might no longer fit nicely into the set column width of your
document. You can adjust this with shift + v + gq, learn more with :h gq.
norm)From :help norm:
Execute Normal mode commands {commands}. This makes
it possible to execute Normal mode commands typed on
the command-line. {commands} are executed like they
are typed. For undo all commands are undone together.
Execution stops when an error is encountered.
Similar to :substitute (:s) :norm operates on the current line or the current highlighted
lines. E.g., :norm ihello world! will insert hello world!.
:norm A \\ does the same as :s/$/ \\\\/.
Press q to start recording a macro, then the key that you want to save the macro to, e.g., v.
This will yield “recording @v” in the Vim status bar. You can type what you want, jump in and out
of instert and normal mode. You can also press : and record a command. If you use general
patterns, such as {, } or %, you can apply this macro to several parts in the file you are
editing. End the macro by again pressing q and to run the macro you press @v. If you just ran a
macro @@ will run it again and if you type 5@@ the macro will run 5 times. This also works with
. which runs the previous operation, and 5. runs the previous operation 5 times. It is possible
to end the macro with @v and make it recursive, the macro will end when it hits an error, e.g.,
if you use } but there is no more paragraphs. The macro is saved to v also after you quit Vim
and is only removed once you record over it.