vim.md

Vim

Terminal based text editor.

Create or Edit a File

# edit file, create one if none exists
vim FILENAME
vim file.txt

Cursor Movement

• L - move to bottom of screen
• H - move to top of screen
• $ - jump to end of line
• gg - go to first line of document
• G - go to last line of document

Insert Mode

• i - insert before cursor
• I - insert at beggining of line
• o - append new line below current line

Copy & Paste

• yy - yank, copy a line
• dd - delete, cut a line
• p - paste, after the cursor
• P - paste, before the cursor