vim Cheat Sheet

A list of vim commands I found helpful.

Table of Contents

• Buffers
• Tabs
• Command-line Windows

Buffers

• List all open buffers: :ls
• List current directory: :pwd
• Change to other directory: :cd
• Split buffers horizontally: :sp <file> or ctrl-w s with :edit <file>
• Split buffers vertically: :vsp <file> or ctrl-w v with :edit <file>
• Close other buffers: only
• Cycle through all buffers: ctrl-w w
• Resizing buffers:
  • Increase size: ctrl-w +
  • Decrease size: ctrl-w -
  • Equal sizes : ctrl-w =
  • Maximize horizontally: ctrl-w _
  • Maximize vertically: ctrl-w |
• Rotating buffers:
• Rotate all buffers clockwise: ctrl-w r
• Rotate all buffers anti-clockwise: ctrl-w R
• Swap current windows with its immediate neighbour: ctrl-w x
• Moving current buffer:
• Move upward: ctrl-w K
• Move downward: ctrl-w J
• Move left: ctrl-w H
• Move right: ctrl-w L

Tabs

• Edit file in new tab: :tabedit <file>
• Move a buffer into its tab: ctrl-w T
• Close a tab: :tabclose
• Close all other tabs: :tabonly
• Rotate through all tabs closewise: gt
• Rotate through all tabs anticlockwise: gT
• Navigate directly to N-th tab: Ngt where N = 1,2,3,...
• Re-ordering tabs
• Move a tab to the end: :tabmove
• Move a tab to the beginning: :tabmove 0
• Move a tab to follow after tab 1: :tabmove 1

Command Line Windows

• Open command-line windows: q: or :ctrl-f
• Open command-line search windows: q\