• Vim Commands Cheat Sheet Pdf
• Vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet
• Printable Vim Cheat Sheet
• Vim Graphical Cheat Sheet German Keyboard Layout
• Vim Visual Cheat Sheet

Last Thursday, while waiting for a friend at the airport, I was having a look at an ad for a Blackberry. I watched the beautiful two-chars-per-key keyboard and the tiny screen (magnified by the magic of marketing to something much taller than myself).

Then it struck me: a keyboard map for vi/vim would be really cool to see! And it shouldn’t be too much work! I certainly would have loved to have it when I was learning vi/vim, not that long ago.

VI “Cheat” Sheet ACNS Bulletin ED–03 February 1995 File management commands:w name Write edit buffer to file name:wq Write to file and quit:q! Quit without saving changes ZZ Same as:wq:sh Execute shell commands (d) Window motions d Scroll down (half a screen) u Scroll up (half a screen) f Page forward b Page backward. Graphical vi-vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial. Learning vi or vim is not easy. But it doesn't have to be that difficult, either. It is, in any case, faster, more powerful, and more productive than editing with any other editor, so you would do very well in investing the time and effort to learn it. Being a vi lover myself, I came up with the idea of providing a graphical cheat sheet for those learning vi or vim, and I also found out it. Starting with movement, basics of editing and traversing up to recording macros for complex functions. Cheat sheets are a great tool. This plugin has digitized. Vi vim graphical cheat sheet pdf Vim is a replacement text editor for Vi and is available for most Linux distributions. Whether you are new to Vi or not, here is a list of the best VIM cheat sheets for easy reference. VIM Cheat Sheet for Programmers Source: VIM Cheat Sheet for Programmers 2. Being a vi lover myself, I came up with the idea of providing a graphical cheat sheet for those learning vi or vim, and I also found out it was a very good way to structure a tutorial. Here are the results for your learning enjoyment (or your colleagues').

The result is here: vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet & Tutorial. I sure think it’s one of the best ways out there to get started with vi/vim.

It’s currently on the front page of reddit & del.icio.us, so welcome to all visitors from there!

Vim Commands Cheat Sheet Pdf

As for some context, I only started using vim a bit over a year ago. The reason? I was fed up with the arrow/home/end/pageup/… keys on my laptop being a pain to use. So, I took up learning vim. Turns out it was love at first sight. Read the details here. I now use it anywhere I can, desktop, laptop, whatever. Ok, not anything, I think Blackberries don’t support it, and I don’t own one to begin with, but a vi/vim interface to the Blackberry would probably be very cool.

Vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet

After this, I had to add vi/vim emulation to the text editor I’m developing – I wouldn’t have been able to test it without that. And once done, I thought it might work as a commercial add-in for Visual Studio, released last July. And it is working a bit: it seems there are more souls claimed by vi/vim out there.

Printable Vim Cheat Sheet

A friend helped me do all the work, and we used the open source application InkScape to actually draw it.

Vim Graphical Cheat Sheet German Keyboard Layout

It seems many people are visiting the cheat sheet & tutorial page – hopefully it will help them learn vi/vim, and it will also provide some nice exposure to ViEmu.

Vim Visual Cheat Sheet

Although I don’t practice much proselitism in this aspect, let me state that one should look at vi/vim’s unique input model not as a relic from old times, but as a different UI model. Optimized for reducing keystrokes & maximizing editing power, both at the expense of the initial learning curve & operating simplicity. It doesn’t matter Bill Joy invented it in the 70s, if he hadn’t thought it up back then, someone would have to invent it today. Admittedly not for mainstream consumption, but I’d buy it as happily.