VIM Key Strokes / Cheat Sheet

Scrolling keys:

j: cursor down
k: cursor up
l: cursor right
h: cursor left
0 (zero): beginning of line
$: end of line
w: word forward
b: word backward
H moves the cursor to the top of the screen or viewport.
M moves the cursor to the middle of the screen or viewport.
L moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen or viewport.
ctrl-e: screen and cursor up 1 line
ctrl-y: screen and cursor down 1 line
z z: move screen and cursor to mid screen
z t: move screen and cursor to top line
z b: move screen and cursor to bottom line
ctrl-u: screen and cursor up 1/2 page
ctrl-d: screen and cursor down 1/2 page
ctrl-b: screen and cursor up one page
ctrl-f: screen and cursor down one page

Go:

G: last line of file
nG: nth line of file, with 1 for first line of file
g-: backwards in edits
g+: forwards in edits
:earlier 50s: to back 50 seconds
:earlier nf: back n file writes
%: jump to matching bracket
:help undo-persistence

Select:

shift v: select lines
ctrl v: select columns

Search:

/: forward search
?: backwards search
n: next occurrence
N: next occurrence, opposite direction

\c : append to search to ignore case

Change:

cw: change to next word
cc: change entire line
c$: change to end of line
ci”: change inside parentheses
ca”: change around parentheses
cfx: change until next found occurrence of x
:%s/search/replace/gc

Marks:

mx tells Vim to add a mark called x.
`x tells Vim to return to the line and column for mark x.
'x tells Vim to return to the beginning of the line where mark x is set.
`. moves the cursor to the line and column where the last edit was made.
'. moves the cursor to the line where the last edit was made.
'" moves the cursor to the last position of the cursor when you exited the previous session.
:marks shows all marks set.
:marks x shows the mark named x.

Jumps:

:jumps shows the jumplist.
Ctrl-o moves the cursor to the last jump.
Ctrl-i moves the cursor to the previous jump.

Windows:

ctrl-w s: split horizontally (or :split, :sp)
ctrl-w v: split vertically (or :vertical split, :vs)
ctrl-w w: switch between windows
ctrl-w h, j, k, l: to navigate windows
ctrl-w _: maximize current window
ctrl-w =: equal size all windows
10 ctrl-w +: increase window size by 10 lines
ctrl-w c: close window
ctrl-w o: close all windows but current
:sp <filepath>: split window horizontally with another file
:vs split window vertically

Tabs:

:tabe <filepath>: open file
:tabn - next window
:tabp - previous window
ctrl-w with arrow: move windows
gt: jump next tab
gT: jump previous tab
<n>gt: jump to specific tab
:e .: start browsing in tab
w: next
W: previous
<n>gt: index of tab to jump

Column Insertion (full vim needs to be installed, won't work with vim.tiny):

from stack overflow:

move to the position
column visual mode: ctl-v
select column and row range
column insert mode: shift-i
perform insertion
finish: esc

Scrolling and line numbers in .vimrc file:

" http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Keep_your_cursor_centered_vertically_on_the_screen
set scrolloff=5

" http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2013/vims-new-hybrid-line-number-mode/
set relativenumber
set number

" http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5310/how-can-i-disable-bells-visualbells-in-vim
set visualbell
set t_vb=

Kind of related, but using 'screen' to split windows (from StackExchange:

split vertically: ctrl-a, |
split horizontally: ctrl-a, S
unsplit: ctrl-a, Q
switch windows: ctrl-a, tab
go to new region: ctrl-a, c
new terminal (new bash prompt): ctrl-a, c
next terminal: ctrl-a, space
nth terminal: ctrl-a, -n-
switch terminals: ctrl-a, "

:set paste - don't insert tabs or spaces during insert
:set nopaste - opposite of above Auto Indent for code paste
alternate paste:
- :set noai - turn off auto indent
- :set ai - turn on auto indent
:setl noai nocin nosi inde= - no auto-indent on current file

Lots of tips, tricks, and techniques at vim wikia.