Learning Vim Basics - TIL (Linux, Programming, Automation)

Vim Notes

These are learning notes when learning vim key bindings

In order to get into insert mode use i.
gg takes you to the first line of the document.
Shift-G takes you to the last line of the document.
You can also move to the specfic line by <line number> G.
you can use x to delete a character.
you can use u to undo a change.
you can also specific the number of characters you want to delete <num of char> x
to delete a whole word use dw.
to delete a line use dd.
to number of lines use <num of lines> dd.
to move one word at a time w.it goes to the beginning character of the word.
to move using last character use e.
to move number of words use <num of words> w for example 10 w this moves 10 words.
to move backward a word you can use b.
to move number of words backward use <num of words> b 10 b.
use 0 to go to the beginning of the line.
you use p to put a line to desired line number for example you can dd a line then 10 G and then do p to put the line on line 10
You can replace a word or a character by using r.
Change to get into change command you can change words by using ce to get the end of the word.
c$ to change the entire line
navigating using command f:(forward <to_word>) and uppercase does this in reverse. for example,fe will take to the character e and Fe will take you backward.
to delete a specific line you can do :<line>d

A takes to the end of the line and enters in to insert mode.
a takes you into insert mode.
S deletes the entire line and enters you into the insert mode.
s delete the character and enters you into the insert mode.
o enters you into the insert mode in the next line.
O enters you into the insert mode in the preceding line.
C deletes the entire line c$
d$ deletes everything from the cursor to the end of the line. You can use D to do the same thing.

Its the copy command in the vim editor

note: you can enable vim mode in zsh by adding bindkey -v to zshrc

You can record vim macros by using the q key and followed whatever key you want to assign that macro to.
to run the macro number of occurences and key where you saved the macro.

:split does horizontal split :sp
:vsplit does vertical split :vs
cntrl-w ccloses the split.
you can also specific the height when doing a split 10sp <filename>
you can do cntrl-w R to swap the split
cntrl-w j and cntrl-w k moves you up and down
cntrl-w h and cntrl-w l moves you left and right
you can also resize the splits vertical resize +5 or resize +5 for horizontal split.
you can also open terminal in vim. especially in split :vs | :terminal

you can run shell commands in vim :! ls this will print the files of your directory.
you can also read the outputs of the command and add it to the document :read !date
you can also use ranges when replacing the text 11,16s/old/new/g
:g/vim/d this will delete vim from every line where it finds the word.
!g/vim/d this will delete that will delete that's not vim.
g/^/pu/ =\"\n\" puts spaces.
g/<word>/m$ moves the lines containing that word to the end of the file

ddp allows you to swap a line.
g/<word>/+1m-2
> allows you to indent 111,114>
:{range} '<,'>' norm A" adds " at the end of the line.
:{range} '<,'>' norm I" adds " at the beginning of the line.
cgn allows you to change the next instance when doing a search.
you can also set abbreviations :ab rtfm Read The Friend Manual and use cntrl-v if you don't want to expand it.
Read commandline commands into vim :r !ls
"+y allows you to copy the selection to the clipboard in vim