vim-cheatsheet

Quick Vim keymap reference in your terminal.

 ┌─────────────────────────────────┐   ▲        ┌─────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ 
 │[operator]        [count][motion]│   │        │p  paste │P  paste │^w  del  │ 
 ├─────────┬────────┬──────────────┤   gg 1st   │   after │   before│    word │ 
 │d delete │w  word │(, )  ()block │   |  line  ├─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ 
 ├─────────┤W  WORD │[, ]  []block │   │        │u  undo  │^r redo  │.  repeat│ 
 │y yank   │s  sntnc│{, }  ()block │   ^b up 1  │         │         │         │ 
 ├─────────┼────────┴──────────────┤   |  page  ├─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ 
 │c change │  (use text-objects)   │   │        │nG jump  │^o jump  │^i jump  │ 
 ├─────────┤  ││   ├iw┘       ││   │   ^u up 0.5│   line N│   back  │   frwrd │ 
 │~ case   │  ││   └────iW────┤│   │   |  page  ├─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ 
 ├─────────┤  │└──────i(──────┘│   │   │        │== auto  │>> shift │^u del   │ 
 │= indent │  └───────a(───────┘   │   k  up    │   indent│<< shift │   line  │ 
 └─────────┴───────────────────────┘   |  line  └─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘ 
                                       │                                        
◀──0──────^────────────B─────b──────h──┼──l──────e──────w─────E─────W──────$───▶
 strt    1st         prev  prev   prev │ next   end    next  end   next   end   
 line   char         WORD  word   char │ char   word   word  WORD  WORD   line  
                                       │           ┌──────────────────────────┐ 
                                       j  down     │:h  left-right-motions    │ 
                                       |  line     │:h  up-down-motions       │ 
                                       │           │:h  operator              │ 
                                       ^d down 0.5 │:h  navigation            │ 
                                       |  page     │:h  pattern-searches      │ 
                                       │           │:h  jump-motions          │ 
                                       ^d down 1   ├──────────────────────────┤ 
                                       |  page     │:e  open file to edit     │ 
                                       │           │:ls list open files       │ 
                                       G  last     │:bn jump to next file     │ 
                                       |  line     │:bp jump to prev file     │ 
                                       ▼           └──────────────────────────┘

Usage

For an offline version of the cheatsheet, you can:

• Copy vim-cheatsheet.txt to $HOME
• Create a shell alias to print the file content for quick reference (this is how I use the cheatsheet right now)

If you like this cheatsheet, consider checking out and purchasing the original Advanced Vim Cheatsheet which was an inspiration for me to create this cheatsheet. The only reason this exists is because I wanted to have an offline copy of the most important Vim motions keymaps right on my terminal.

Also, my blog post explaining the motivation behind creating this reference.