Vim Notes - Bart Lantz

Vi Commands


vi key combo	command
:q!	quit without saving
:wq	write and quit
:q	quit
:%s/oldword/newword/g	substitute all oldword occurences with newword in entire file
:ls	list buffers
:b1	switch to buffer 1
:bn	switch to buffer n
:vs	vertically split window (create side by side windows)
dw	delete word
d$	delete to end of line
dd	delete current line
.	repeat last change
yy	copy, yank line into buffer
p	paste the line in buffer after cursor position
cw	change word
u	undo!
i	insert mode
	escape, exit insert mode
/VirtualHost	search file for phrase “VirtualHost”
n	move to next occurence of search phrase
100G	move to 100th line
1G	move to first line
G	move to last line

more vi cheatsheets

http://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/viqr.html

http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html

add to .screenrc to get Color Schemes working

attrcolor b ".I"
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
defbce "on"
term screen-256color-bce

.vimrc

" Colors!!
set t_Co=256

" color theme
" colors zenburn
colors calmar256-dark

set showmode "show current mode down the bottom

"Setting the status line...

set statusline=%f       "tail of the filename

"display a warning if the file format isn't Unix
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{&amp;ff!='unix'?'['.&amp;ff.']':''}
set statusline+=%*

"display a warning if file encoding isn't UTf-8
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{(&amp;fenc!='utf-8'&amp;&amp;&amp;fenc!='')?'['.&amp;fenc.']':''}
set statusline+=%*

set statusline+=%h      "help file flag
set statusline+=%y      "filetype
set statusline+=%r      "read only flag
set statusline+=%m      "modified flag
syntax on

Window Commands


C-w s	Split window horizontally
C-w v	Split window vertically
C-w x	Exchange windows
C-w w	jump to next window
:only	kill all windows but current
C-w =	equalize all window sizes

Edit Keys: used with argument

c change

cw = change word

d delete

d$ delete til end of line

r replace

r5 replace 5 chars

y yank

yy yank entire line