Movement
h
Move cursor leftj
Move cursor downk
Move cursor upl
Move cursor right
Ctrl
+ b
Move backward one full screenCtrl
+ f
Move forward one full screenCtrl
+ d
Move forward half a screenCtrl
+ u
Move back half a screen
H
Move to the top of ScreenL
Move to bottom of the Screen
w
Jump forward to start of wordb
Jump backwards to the start of a wordgg
Go to the first line of the documentG
Go to the last line of the document5gg
or 5G
Go to line 5
Insert mode
i
Insert before the cursoro
Insert on a new line below the current lineEsc
Exit insert mode
Visual mode cut and paste
y
Copy (yank) marked textp
Put (paste) the clipboard after cursord
Delete marked text
yy
Copy (yank) a line5yy
Copy (yank) 5 linesdd
Delete (cut) a line5dd
Delete (cut) 5 lines
Search and replace
/term
Search forward for «term»?term
Search backward for «term»n
Repeat search, same directionN
Repeat search, opposite direction
Editing
u
UndoCtrl
+r
Redo
Saving and exiting
:w
Save (write), don’t exit:wq
Save (write) and quit:q
Quit, only possible without changes:q!
Force quit, without saving