Vem Cheat Sheet - Full (QWERTY)

Basic Movements

h:

Left

j:

Down

k:

Up

l:

Right

Larger Movements

H:

Previous word

J:

Next paragraph (next blank line)

K:

Previous paragraph (previous blank line)

L:

Next word

Inserting after Moving

Ctrl-h:

Insert at the start of current line (first non-whitespace character)

Ctrl-j:

Insert in a new line below current one

Ctrl-k:

Insert in a new line above current one

Ctrl-l:

Insert at the end of current line

Line Movements

,:

Beginning of current line (first non-whitespace character)

.:

End of current line

0:

First column in current line

You can also use ^ and $ instead of , and ..

Page Movements

U:

Page up

M:

Page down

Document Movements

a:

Top of the file

z:

Bottom of the file

:<number> jump to the given line number

Jumping between Ends

%:

Jump to matching parenthesis, bracket or HTML/XML tag

*:

Jump between ends of current selection or last selected text

+:

Jump between ends of last pasted or inserted text

End of Next Word

;:

Jump to end of next word

Jump History

R:

Go to previous location in jump history

Ctrl-]:

Go to next location in jump history

Jumps within Window

" u:

Jump to first line in window

" .:

Jump to middle line in window

" m:

Jump to last line in window

Jumps within Identifiers

<:

Jump to previous camel case or underscore separated word

>:

Jump to next camel case or underscore separated word

Undoing and Redoing

q:

Undo

Q:

Redo

Deleting

c:

Delete current line or selection

I:

Delete left character (backspace)

O:

Delete right character (delete)

Changing

f:

Change current word

F:

Change from cursor to the end of line

Ctrl-f:

Change the content between the closest surrounding matching pair ({[<"''">]})

Space f:

Change camel case or underscore separated word

Changing means deleting and starting insert mode

Replacing

r <char>:

Replace character under cursor, or all characters if there's an active selection, by <char>

Space r:

Replace mode (characters below the cursor get overwritten when typing)

Commenting

v:

Comment/Uncomment current line or selection (line comment markers)

V:

Comment line or selection (bock comment markers)

Adding White-Space

Tab:

Indent line or selection

S-Tab:

Un-indent line or selection

y:

Add blank line above current one

n:

Add blank line below current one

(:

Add space before cursor

):

Add space after cursor

Enter:

Enter a newline (also in normal mode)

Formatting

|:

Format line or selection. (Eg. reformat line lenght)

&:

Join next line to current one or all lines in selection

=:

Format code

Ctrl-u:

Toggle case of character under cursor or all characters in selection

s <char>:

Surround current selection with a matching pair (({[<"''">]})). If <char> is one of ({[< a space is left between the matching pair and the selected text, for '">]}) no space is left

Adding and Subtracting

A:

Add 1 to number under cursor

Z:

Subtract 1 number under cursor

Substituting

:%s/<pattern>/<text>/icg

Replace all occurrences of <pattern> with <text>

The last characters are optional flags:

i:

ignore case

c:

confirm every substitution interactively

g:

replace all occurrences in each line

<text> can contain \1, \2, ... to refer to the regex groups of pattern

Substitution Ranges

:%s/.../.../ Perform substitution across the whole file

:<n>,<m>s/.../.../ Perform substitution in the range from line number <n> to <m>

:'<,'>s/.../.../ Perform substitution in current selection. This prefix will be automatically pre-populated in the command line once you visually create the selection and then type :

Selections

G:

Start selection (repeated, it changes the selection mode: characterwise, blockwise, linewise)

Space:

Deselect

Space Space:

Reselect last active selection

Important: a horizontal movement after G sets a characterwise selection and a vertical movement, a linewise one.

Quick Selections

g:

Select word (if pressed twice, select all text between white-space)

Ctrl-g:

Select the content between the closest surrounding matching pair ({[<"''">]})

More Quick Selections

Space a:

Select all

Space p:

Select paragraph

Space P:

Select last pasted text

Space g:

Select camel case or underscore separated word

Space G:

Select inner line (not including leading and trailing white-space)

Selecting Text Objects

G i <obj>:

Inner selection of <obj>

G o <obj>:

Outer selection of <obj>

Outer selections include surrounding white-space, quotes or parenthesis/brackets while Inner ones don't.

See next cards for the possible values of <obj>.

Text Objects I

l:

Line

s:

Sentence

p:

Paragraph

To use with G i and G o.

Text Objects II

(:

Text between parenthesis

{:

Text between curly brackets

[:

Text between square brackets

<:

Text between angle brackets

t:

Text between HTML/XML tags

':

Text between single quotes

":

Text between double quotes

To use with G i and G o.

Copying, Cutting and Deleting

e:

Copy line or selection

d:

Cut line or selection

c:

Delete line or selection

Ctrl-d:

Like d but start insert mode afterwards

Secondary Clipboard

E:

Copy line or selection into secondary clipboard

D:

Cut line or selection into secondary clipboard

Pasting

p:

Paste

P:

Paste secondary clipboard

Advanced Pasting I

Ctlr-p h:

Paste before cursor

Ctlr-p j:

Paste below current line

Ctlr-p k:

Paste above current line

Ctlr-p l:

Paste after cursor (same as p)

Advanced Pasting II

Ctlr-p ,:

Paste at line beginning

Ctlr-p .:

Paste at line end

Ctrl-p Tab:

Paste below current line using its same indentation level

New File

Ctrl-t:

New file

Ctrl-w Ctrl-]:

New file in vertical window

Ctrl-w Ctrl-_:

New file in horizontal window

Ctrl-w Ctrl-^:

New file in new tabpage

You can also use Ctrl-6 instead of Ctrl-^ (which can be difficult to type in some keyboards).

Opening Files

W:

Open file

space w:

Fuzzy finder

space W:

Most recently used

space _:

Open filename under cursor

:e <path> open file using the command line

Saving Files

s:

Save

space s:

Save all

:saveas <path> save as...

Closing Files

x:

Close (and quit if last one)

Ctrl-x:

Close but keep window layout

space x:

Close all and quit

Switching between open files

w:

Switch between open files

t:

Next open file

T:

Previous open file

#:

Last visited file (alternate file)

{:

Move current file to the left in tabline

}:

Move current file to the right in tabline

File Browser: Opening and Closing

W:

Open file browser

x:

Close file browser

File Browser: Basic Actions

h:

Go to parent directory

j:

Cursor down

k:

Cursor up

l or Enter:

Open file or enter directory

File Browser: Opening Files

Ctrl-]:

Open file in vertical window

Ctrl-_:

Open file in horizontal window

Ctrl-^:

Open file in new tabpage

Ctrl-t:

Create new file

You can also use Ctrl-6 instead of Ctrl-^ (which can be difficult to type in some keyboards).

File Browser: Multi-Open

G:

Start selection. Use movement keys to create your selection and open all selected files by using any of the file opening actions.

File Browser: Opening and Closing

w:

Switch between open files

Space w:

Find files

Space W:

Find most recently used files

Ctrl-o:

Close fuzzy finder

Shift-Tab:

Cycle between open file, file and mru searches

Ctrl-Tab:

Cycle between open file, file and mru searches (opposite direction)

Fuzzy Finder: Movements

Ctrl-h:

Move cursor left

Ctrl-j:

Move up in the list of matching files

Ctrl-k:

Move down in the list of matching files

Ctrl-l:

Move cursor right

Ctrl-a:

Jump to beginning of command line

Ctrl-e:

Jump to end of command line

Fuzzy Finder: Open File

Enter:

Open file

Ctrl-]:

Open file in vertical window

Ctrl-_:

Open file in horizontal window

Ctrl-^:

Open file in new tabpage

Ctrl-t:

Create new file (type the path first)

You can also use Ctrl-6 instead of Ctrl-^ (which can be difficult to type in some keyboards).

Fuzzy Finder: Multi-Open

Ctrl-g:

Mark file to open

Ctrl-w:

Open marked files

You can also use Ctrl-], Ctrl-_ or Ctrl-^ to open the files in vertical windows, horizontal windows or new tabpages.

Fuzzy Finder: Options

Tab:

Autocomplete

Ctrl-f:

Toggle search by just filename

Ctrl-r:

Refresh list

Insert Mode: Movements

Ctrl-h:

Move cursor left

Ctrl-j:

Move cursor down

Ctrl-k:

Move cursor up

Ctrl-l:

Move cursor right

Insert Mode: More Movements

Ctrl-a:

Jump to beginning of current line

Ctrl-e:

Jump to end of current line

Insert Mode: Autocomplete

Tab:

Autocomplete

Shift-Tab:

Autocomplete (opposite direction)

Tab autocompletes after text and inserts a tab or spaces (depending on your configuration) at the beginning of the line or after white-space. Use Ctrl-] to insert tab or spaces independently of the context.

Insert Mode: Adding Text

Ctrl-d:

Insert Unicode character (digraph)

Ctrl-y:

Clone character above the cursor

Ctrl-n:

Clone character below the cursor

Ctrl-]:

Insert tab (for cases where Tab autocompletes)

Insert Mode: Paste Mode

Ctrl-^:

Toggle paste mode

You can also use Ctrl-6 instead of Ctrl-^ (which can be difficult to type in some keyboards).

Command Line: Movements

Ctrl-h:

Move cursor left

Ctrl-l:

Move cursor right

Ctrl-a:

Jump to beginning of command line

Ctrl-e:

Jump to end of command line

Command Line: History

Ctrl-j:

Next command in command-line history

Ctrl-k:

Previous command in command-line history.

When browsing the command line history, if you already typed the start of a command, it will try to find a match

Command Line: Pasting

Ctrl-p:

Paste clipboard contents

Command Line: Autocomplete

Tab:

Autocomplete

Shift-Tab:

Autocomplete (opposite direction)

Searching

/ or -:

Search forward (after cursor)

?:

Search backwards (before cursor)

u:

Find previous

m:

Find next

_:

Search word under cursor forward

Ctrl-_:

Search word under cursor backwards

Ctrl-r:

Reset search highlighting

Macros

@ s:

Record macro s

@ x:

Record macro x

@ @:

Stop recording

S:

Play macro s

X:

Play macro x

Marks

! <letter>:

Set mark.

` <letter>:

Go to mark <letter>

If <letter> is lowercase the mark is local to the current file. If it is uppercase, the mark is valid across files.

'<letter> jumps to the same line as the mark (although not necessarily the same column).

Folds: Basic Actions

b f:

Create fold out of visual selection

b a:

Toggle fold open/closed

b d:

Delete fold

b i:

Toggle folding on/off

Folds: Level

b R:

Open all folds

b M:

Close all folds

b r:

Open one more folding level

b m:

Close one more folding level

Tags

Space o:

Jump to tag

Space i:

Jump back from tag

Scrolling

Ctrl-q:

Scroll upward

Ctrl-a:

Scroll downward

Space u:

Scroll window to put current line at the top

Space c:

Scroll window to put current line at the center

Space m:

Scroll window to put current line at the bottom

Ctrl-q will not work if you're running Vem in a terminal with control flow enabled. Use Ctrl-e if that is your case.

Spelling

Space y:

Previous misspelled word

Space n:

Next misspelled word

Space ?:

Suggest spellings for misspelled word under the cursor

Space +:

Add word under cursor to user's dictionary

Space -:

Remove word under cursor from user's dictionary

Quickfix/Location Window

Y:

Previous quickfix result

N:

Next quickfix result

Ctrl-y:

Previous location window result

Ctrl-n:

Next location window result

Creating Windows

Ctrl-w h:

New window left

Ctrl-w j:

New window down

Ctrl-w k:

New window up

Ctrl-w l:

New window right

Creating Windows and files

Ctrl-w Ctrl-]:

New file in vertical window

Ctrl-w Ctrl-_:

New file in horizontal window

Jumping between Windows

Space h:

Jump to window to the left

Space j:

Jump to window below

Space k:

Jump to window above

Space l:

Jump to window to the right

Closing Windows

x:

Close file (if not shown in another window) and window

Ctrl-x:

Close file but keep window

Ctrl-w x:

Close window but keep file

Window Shortcuts

Ctrl-w Ctrl-w:

Jump to previous window

Ctrl-w Space:

Close all windows but current one

Moving Windows

Ctrl-w r:

Rotate window upwards

Ctrl-w R:

Rotate window downwards

Ctrl-w u:

Move window to top

Ctrl-w m:

Move window to bottom

Ctrl-w ,:

Move window to far left

Ctrl-w .:

Move window to far right

Resizing Windows

Ctrl-w +:

Increase window height

Ctrl-w -:

Decrease window height

Ctrl-w >:

Increase window width

Ctrl-w <:

Decrease window width

Tabpages

Ctrl-w Ctrl-^:

New tabpage

<number>:

Go to tabpage <number>

:tabclose closes current tabpage. A tabpage can be closed by closing all its windows too

You can also use Ctrl-6 instead of Ctrl-^ (which can be difficult to type in some keyboards).

Suspending

Ctrl-z:

Suspend process

Only in terminal and normal mode.

Vim Compatibility

b:

Same as Vim z

B:

Same as Vim g

[:

Same as Vim [

]:

Same as Vim ]