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Cursor control and position
h or ←	Left
j, ↓ or RETURN	Down
k or ↑	Up
l, → or SPACE	Right
w	Forward one word
b	Back one word
e	End of word
(	Beginning of current sentence
)	Beginning of next sentence
{	Beginning of current paragraph
}	Beginning of next paragraph
[[	Beginning of current section
]]	Beginning of next section
0	Start of the current line
$	End of the current line
^	First non-white character on current line
+ or RETURN	First character on next line
-	First character on previous line
n\|	Character n of current line
H	Top line of current screen
M	Middle line of current screen
L	last line of current screen
nH	n lines after the top line of current screen
nL	n lines before last line of current screen
CTRL+F	Forward one screen
CTRL+B	Back one screen
CTRL+D	Down half a screen
CTRL+U	Up half a screen
CTRL+E	Display another line at bottom of screen
CTRL+Y	Display another line at top of screen
z RETURN	Redraw screen with cursor at top
z .	Redraw screen with cursor in middle
z -	Redraw screen with cursor at bottom
CTRL+L	Redraw screen without re-positioning
CTRL+R	Redraw screen without re-positioning
/test	Search for text (forward)
/	Repeat forward search
?text	Search for text (backward)
?	Repeat previous search backward
n	Repeat previous search
N	Repeat previous search, but in the opposite direction
*/text/+n*	Go to line n after text
*?text?-n*	Go to line n before text
%	Find match of current parenthesis, brace, or bracket
CTRL+G	Display line number of cursor
nG	Move cursor to line number n
:n	Move cursor to line number n
G	Move to last line

Editing
a	Append after cursor
A	Append to end of current line
i	Insert before cursor
I	Insert at beginning of line
o	Open line above cursor
O	Open line below cursor
ESC	End of insert mode
CTRL+I	Insert a tab
CTRL+T	Move to next tab position
BACKSPACE	Move back one character
CTRL+U	Delete current line
CTRL+V	Quote next character
CTRL+W	Move back one word
cw	Change word
cc	Change line
C	Change from current position to end of line
dd	Delete current line
ndd or dnd	Delete n lines
D	Delete remainder of line
dw	Delete word
d}	Delete rest of paragraph
d^	Delete back to start of line
c/pat	Delete up from first occurance of pat
dn	Delete up to the next occurance of pattern
dfa	Delete up to and including a on current line
dL	Delete up to last line on screen
dG	Delete to end of file
J	Join two lines
p	Insert buffer after cursor
P	Insert buffer before cursor
rx	Replace the character with x
rtext	Replace text beginning at cursor
s	Substittue cahracter
ns	Substitute n characters
S	Substitute entire line
u	Undo last change
U	Restore current line
x	Delete current cursor position
X	Delete back one character
nX	Delete previous n characters
.	Repeat last change
~	Reverse case
y	Copy current line into new buffer
yy	Copy current line
yw	Copy word
y4w or 4yw	Copy 4 words
y]]	Copy up to next section heading
"xyy	Copy current line into buffer x
"Xd	Delete and append to buffer x
"xp	Put contents of buffer x

File Handling
:w	Write file
:w!	Write file (ignoring warnings)
:w! file	Overwrite file (ignore warnings)
:wq	Write file and quit
:q	Quit
:q!	Quit (even if changes not saved)
:w file	Write file as file, leaving original untouched
ZZ	Quit, only writing file if changed
:x	Quit, only writing file if changed
:n1,n2 file	Write lines n1 to n2 to file
:n1,n2 >> file	Append lines n1 to n2 to file
:e file2	edit file2 (current file becomes alternate file)
:e!	Reload file from disk (revert to previous saved version)
:e#	Edit alternate file
%	Display current filename
#	Display alternate filename
:n	Edit next file
:n!	Edit next file (ignore warnings)
:n files	Specify new list of files
:x file	Insert file after cursor
:r !command	Run command and insert output after current line

Search and Replace

Change to normal mode with <ESC>. Search (Wraped around at end of file):

  Search STRING forward :   / STRING.
  Search STRING backward:   ? STRING.

  Repeat search:   n
  Repeat search in opposite direction:  N  (SHIFT-n)

Replace: Same as with sed, Replace OLD with NEW:

 
 First occurrence on current line:      :s/OLD/NEW
  
 Globally (all) on current line:        :s/OLD/NEW/g 

 Between two lines #,#:                 :#,#s/OLD/NEW/g
  
 Every occurrence in file:              :%s/OLD/NEW/g

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Cursor control and position

Editing

File Handling

Search and Replace

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