What's Vim?

This web page explores the basic functionality of Vim.

Vim is a text editor. Everybody loves Vim! Read more: here!

Using Vim

Normal Mode (Press esc)

• navigate - h (left), j (down), k (up), l (right)
• move to beginning of next word - w
• move to beginning of previous word - b
• move to start of line - 0
• move to end of line - $
• go first line - gg
• go last line - G

Editing Operations (Normal Mode)

• insert before the cursor - i
• append after the cursor - a
• delete single character under cursor - x
• delete word - dw
• delete (cut) current line - dd
• yank (copy) current line - yy
• paste (put) after cursor - p
• undo last action - u
• replace a single character - r

Saving and Quitting

• save the file - :w
• quit vim - :q
• save and quit - :wq
• quit without saving changes - :q!

Searching

• search for "text" (forward) - /text
• search for "text" (backward) - ?text
• next match - n
• previous match - N