VIM editor Cheat Sheet for Beginners

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VIM Cheat Sheet for Beginners

Verbose vs Shortcuts

Vim provides a short cut and a verbose version of every command.  For instance, you can type the short cut version of the edit command

:e .

or you can type the verbose version of the exact same command by typing

:edit .

Now, the way that we will express the verbose vs the abbreviated command is

:e[dit] .
:shortcut[extra letters for long version]

 Commands for Complete Beginners

  • :e[dit] path/to/some/file.txt

    Beginner’s example 1

    :e .

  This will display all of the files/folders that are in the directory

 

 

Command 2

jk

 

Slightly more Advanced Commands

  • :ol[dfiles]

 

String Commands

  •  w – Forward to the start of next
  • W-

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