I still have my tractor feed print out of the vi manual from 1991.

3dd Delete 3 lines

3yy yank 3 lines

P and p put back text after or before cursor

Tx move to character after the x

My friend is giving away some free copies of his book for learning vim, it’s been super helpful for me. First come first serve

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cut a line and paste a line

dd to cut a line, p/P to paste below or above current line

Delete everything from the cursor up until a particular character on the same line, not including that character. For example, until the next close-parenthesis: dt)

Increment the number under cursor: Ctrl-a

Decrement the same (I always forget this one): Ctrl-x

I’m 19 and I know nine.

:w :q :wq :q! yy dd p u ^r

I know a few more interesting ones but nowhere near what actual vim people know.

• d, y, p - delete, yank, paste as others have said.
• r - replace the character under the cursor with something else
• g - go somewhere (gt is go to next tab which you can open with :tabedit )
• v - visual mode for selecting text to yank with y
• c - change - deletes a thing and goes to insert mode, like d but not. Eg.
  • cc - change the current line
  • cw - change the next word

My favourite is ci - change inside

ci" - changes all the text that’s inside the next set of quotes.

ci( changes the text inside the next set of parentheses. Etc.

I also use :mouse=a which I’m told is sacrilege but sometimes I like to click on a thing!

Its too much you left out but I recommend buying a vim book! It will upskill you to master.

Very useful for renaming a variable: * to search “word” under cursor. Try this with hlsearch on::set hlsearch. Then cw to change a match. Spam n and . to quickly rename more occurrences of the word. Do a :noh to get rid of the highlighting. Maybe try :set noinc, some people prefer the traditional “non-incremental” search.

:%s for changing a string on the entire file (I think it also works with selections instead of entire file)

:m+{num} to move a line

:tabe to open another tab (not split)

:te open terminal

:wqa write and quit all buffers (will fail with non-writrable buffer, like a terminal, sadly)

:!{shell command} execute

:r!{shell command} execute and write to current buffer

:cd change directory

Not a command, but useful to remember % means current file (eg. :!rm %)

I’m 19, and the plan is to learn all before 200

I am in my 50s and have used vi/vim as my principal editor for 30 years. I don’t think enumerating commands will be possible. If you have questions about how to do something, I will try to answer them.