Vim Cheat Sheet - Johannes Findeisen

Introduction

This Vim commands cheat sheet also includes commands and shortcuts for Vimium & Nerdtree.

Command	Explanation
h	Left
j	Down
k	Up
l	Right
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 backward by words (punctuation considered words)
B	Jump backward by words (no punctuation)
ge	Jump backward to end of words
0	(zero) Start of line
^	First non-blank character of line
$	End of line
-	Line upwards, on the first non blank character
+	Line downwards, on the first non blank character
<enter>	Line downwards, on the first non blank character
gg	Go to first line
G	Go to last line
nG	Go to line n
:n	Go to line n
)	Forward to the next sentence
(	Backward by a sentence
{	A paragraph backwards
}	A paragraph forwards
]]	A section forwards or to the next {
[[	A section backwards or the previous {
H	To the top of the screen
M	To the middle of the screen
L	To the bottom of the screen
fx	Search line forward for 'x'
Fx	Search line backward for 'x'
tx	Search line forward before 'x'
Tx	Search line backward before 'x'

Command	Explanation
:marks	List all the current marks
ma	Make a bookmark named a at the current cursor position
`a	Go to position of bookmark a
'a	Go to the line with bookmark a
`.	Go to the line that you last edited

Command	Explanation
i	Start insert mode at cursor
I	Insert at the beginning of the line
a	Append after the cursor
A	Append at the end of the line
o	Open (append) blank line below current line
O	Open blank line above current line
<Esc>	Exit insert mode

Command	Explanation
r	Replace a single character (does not use insert mode)
R	Replace characters rather than inserting
J	Join line below to the current one
cc	Change (replace) an entire line
cw	Change (replace) to the end of word
c$	Change (replace) to the end of line
s	Delete character at cursor and substitute text
S	Delete line at cursor and substitute text (same as cc)
xp	Transpose two letters (delete and paste, technically)
u	Undo
CTRL-r	Redo
.	Repeat last command
~	Switch case
g~iw	Switch case of current word
gUiw	Make current word uppercase
guiw	Make current word lowercase
gU$	Make uppercase until end of line
gu$	Make lowercase until end of line
:%retab	Fix spaces / tabs issues in whole file
:%s/pattern/replace/g	Search and replace
:bufdo %s/pattern/replace/g	Search and replace in multiple buffers
:r [name]	Insert the file [name] below the cursor
:r !{cmd}	Execute cmd & insert its standard output below cursor