Handy Gvim/Vim/Vi commands

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Gvim is the most common editor used by Linux Users. Here are some the gvim editor commands are given below,

Short Cut Command	Description
ZZ	Save and Quit
ZQ	Quit Without Save
CTRL+E/Y	Scrolling line up and down
CTRL+U/D	Move the half of the screen up and down
CTRL+F/B	Page up and down
s	Deletes the current character cursor will be in insert mode
S	Deletes the entire line and cursor in insert mode
H	Move the top of the screen
L	End of the screen
G	Jumps to the file or line typed before(this is the difference between L and G)
-/+	Moves the line up and down
dnw	It delete upto n words
h	Moves the cursor left direction(we can use numbers also i.e 8h)
K	Moves a cursor to upward direction(i.e 9k)
J	Moves the cursor downward direction. We can use 9j also
L	Moves the cursor right direction(we can use numbers also i.e 8l)
zt	Scroll the cursor to top
zb	Scroll the cursor to bottom
zc	Scroll the cursor at center
(	Jumps the beginning of the sentence
)	Jumps the end of the sentence
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)
0	(zero) start of line
$	Go to  the end of the line(we can use number also 9$ means cursor will go the end of 9th line)
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 (no need to press return)
O	open blank line above current line
Esc	exit insert mode
C	delete from cursor position to end of the line
:E	edit a file in a new buffer
:sp	open a file in a new buffer and split window
Ctrl+ws	split windows
Ctrl+ww	switch cursor between windows
Ctrl+W+	Increase the window size in split screen
Ctrl+wq	quit a window
Ctrl+w gf	Edit existing file under cursor in new tabpage
Ctrl+w f	Edit existing file under cursor in split window
gf	Edit existing file under cursor in same window
Ctrl+wv	split windows vertically
:%s/old/new/g	replace all old with new throughout file
:%s/old/new/gc	replace all old with new throughout file with confirmations
n	repeat search in same direction
N	repeat search in opposite direction
/pattern	search for pattern
:w	write (save) the file, but don’t exit
:wq	write (save) and quit
:wqall	Write and quit all
:wall	Save the changes in all file
:w!	force write to a read only file
:q!	force quit and throw away changes
yy or(Y)	yank (copy) a line
2yy	yank 2 lines
dd or D	delete (cut) a line
p	put (paste) the clipboard after cursor
P	put (paste) before cursor
dw	delete (cut) the current word
yw	yank word
~	switch case
Ctrl+v	start visual block mode
U	undo
.	repeat last command
r	replace a single character (does not use insert mode)
R	replace characters till Esc is pressed
J	join line below to the current one
:tabnew	open new tab
:tabnew %	open same file in new tab

Searching options:

 c.m- means it search the start letter as c and second letter may be anything but third letter must be m

human human human - if you type fh- cursor will move every h position( remember cursor will be in h position) Fh will search in reverse. th-one character before. same as th but in reverse direction.

Remember that vim stores the recordings in macros.Following are the steps for recording in gvim:

• Start recording by pressing q, followed by a lower case character (a-z) to name the macro.
• Perform any editing, actions inside Vim editor, which will be recorded.
• Stop recording by pressing q.
• Play the recorded macro by pressing @ followed by the macro name.
• To repeat macros multiple times, press: N@macro name. N is a number.

Ex. 1@a (or @a) will play recording 1 time stored in buffer ‘a’, 2@a will play it 2 times and so on.

You can store 26 different recordings at a time!

Hope this logic's will be useful to everyone !!!

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