Cursor movement

Basic movement

• Left, down, up, right

h,j,k,l

• Start of line (indented)

_ <– (underline)

• Start of above line

- <– (minus)

• Start line of file

gg

• Last line of file

G

Wordwise movement

Lower case move until meta char | white space
Upper case move until whitespace

• Start of word (moving forward)

w
W

• End of word (moving forward)

e
E

• Start of word (moving backward)

b
B

• End of word (moving backward)

ge
gE

Sentencewise movement

• Start of line (ignore all indent: unlike ‘-‘)

0 <– (number)

• Start of sentence (non-blank)

• End of sentence

$

Pagewise movement

• Move topmost from current page (high)

H

• Move middle from current page (middle)

M

• Move lowest from current page (low)

L

• Start line of Previous page (back)

ctrl + b

• Start line of Next page (front)

ctrl + f

• Start line of half-page down

ctrl + d

• Start line of half-page up

ctrl + u

linewise movement

• Move to line

:[number]

Blockwise movement

• Move to either pair of block brackets (), {}, [], <>

%

• Move to { (moving forward) If none, move bottom of page

]]

• Move to { (moving backward) If none, move top of page

[[

• Move to } (moving forward) If none, move bottom of page

][

• Move to } (moving backward) If none, move top of page

[]

Edit

Insertion

• Insert b4 cursor

i

• Append after cursor

a

• Insert beginning of line

I <-(alphabet upper i)

• Append after end of line

A

• Append down on next line

o <-(alphabet lower o)

• Append up on previous line

O <-(alphabet upper o)

Deletetion

• Delete char at cursor (act like ‘del’ key)

x

• Delete char b4 cursor (act like ‘backspace’ key)

X

• Delete from cursor to end of line

D

Replace

• Delete char and insert

s

• Delete line and insert ( same as ‘cc’)

S

• Delete from cursor to end of line and insert

C

• Replace char

r[char]

• Replace until ‘esc’

R

Multi-line operation

[operator][count][motion]

operator

• Delete (cut) char / line

d
dd

• Yank (copy) char / line

y
yy

• Change char / line

c
cc

• Make upper / lower / swap case

gU
gu
~

• Increment / Decrement number

ctrl + a
ctrl + x

• Indent line right / left

>
<

• Indent paragraph right / left

>}
<}

• Repeat previous command

.

motion

TODO

File operation

Basic operation

• Undo

u

• Redo

ctrl + r

• Move right tab

gt

• Move left tab

gT