vi keyboard shortcuts

	vi keyboard shortcuts
	Cursor control and position
	Editing
	File Handling
.	Cursor control and position
	Left	h
	Down	j
	Up	k
	Right	l (or spacebar)
	Forward one word	w
	Back one word	b
	End of word	e
	Beginning of current sentence	(
	Beginning of next sentence	)
	Beginning of current paragraph	{
	Beginning of next paragraph	}
	Beginning of current section	[[
	Beginning of next section	]]
	Start of current line	0
	End of current line	$
	First non-white character of current line	^
	First character of next line	+ or RETURN
	First character of previous line	-
	character n of current line	n |
	Top line of current screen	H
	Middle line of current screen	M
	Last line of current screen	L
	n lines after top line of current screen	nH
	n lines before last line of current screen	nL
	Forward one screen	Ctrl-F
	Back one screen	Ctrl-B
	Down half a screen	Ctrl-D
	Up half a screen	Ctrl-U
	Display another line at bottom of screen	Ctrl-E
	Display another line at top of screen	Ctrl-Y
	Redraw screen with cursor at top	z RETURN
	Redraw screen with cursor in middle	z .
	Redraw screen with cursor at bottom	z -
	Redraw screen without re-positioning	Ctrl-L
	Redraw screen without re-positioning	Ctrl-R
	Search for text (forwards)	/text
	Repeat forward search	/
	Search for text (backwards)	?text
	Repeat previous search backwards	?
	Repeat previous search	n
	Repeat previous search, but it opposite direction	N
	Go to line n after text	/text/+n
	Go to line n before text	?text?-n
	Find match of current parenthesis, brace, or bracket.	%
	Display line number of cursor	Ctrl-G
	Move cursor to line number n	nG
	Move cursor to line number n	:n
	Move to last line in file	G
	Editing
	Append to end of current line	A
	Insert before cursor	i
	Insert at beginning of line	I
	Open line above cursor	o
	Open line below cursor	O
	End of insert mode	ESC
	Insert a tab	Ctrl-I
	Move to next tab position	Ctrl-T
	Move back one character	Backspace
	Delete current line	Ctrl-U
	Quote next character	Ctrl-V
	Move back one word	Ctrl-W
	Change word	cw
	Change line	cc
	Change from current position to end of line	C
	Delete current line	dd
	Delete n lines	ndd
	Delete remainer of line	D
	Delete word	dw
	Delete rest of paragraph	d}
	Delete back to start of line	d^
	Delete up to first occurance of pattern	c/pat
	Delete up to next occurance of pattern	dn
	Delete up to and including a on current line	dfa
	Delete up to, but not including, a on current line	dta
	Delete up to last line on screen	dL
	Delete to end of file	dG
	Join two lines	J
	Insert buffer after cursor	p
	Insert buffer before cursor	P
	Replace character with x	rx
	Replace text beginning at cursor	Rtext
	Substitute character	s
	Substitute n characters	ns
	Substitute entire line	S
	Undo last change	u
	Restore current line	U
	Delete current cursor position	x
	Delete back one character	X
	Delete previous n characters	nX
	Repeat last change	.
	Reverse case	~
	Copy current line to new buffer	y
	Copy current line	yy
	Copy current line into buffer x	"xyy
	Delete and append into buffer x	"Xd
	Put contents of buffer x	"xp
	Copy up to next section heading	y]]
	Copy to end of word	ye
	File Handling
	:w	Write file
	:w!	Write file (ignoring warnings)
	:w! file	Overwrite file (ignoring 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,n2w file	Write lines n1 to n2 to file
	:n1,n2w >> 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 (ignoring warnings)
	:n files	Specify new list of files
	:r file	Insert file after cursor
	:r !command	Run command, and insert output after current line