Vim Commands You Need to Know: Episode 1

October 8, 2013

Most people who have spent any time using the command line have learned to use vim well enough to edit conf files: moving the cursor, entering insert mode, and saving and quitting the file :wq. I know because I was one of those people for years. It wasn’t until I found a few magical commands that I truly understood why vim was a true competitor in a world of IDE’s and Textmate clones.

The following is a list of commands that you should be using all the time. If you do you will start to understand that you are a god.

  1. J Join lines: Joins the current line with the one below it leaving your cursor in a space between them.

  2. ciw Change in word: deletes the current word and puts you in insert mode.

  3. diw Delete in word: deletes the current word and leaves you in normal normal mode.

  4. fc Find character: will find whatever character you enter after f and put your cursor there.

  5. tc Find til character: will find whatever character you enter after t and put your cursor before it.

  6. Fc Find previous char.

  7. Tc Find til previous character: will find the previous character and put your cursor after it.

October 08, 2013
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