Commands

Question 1

Increase number by 10

Answer 1

10<C-a>

Question 2

Decrease number by 5

Answer 2

5<C-x>

Question 3

Insert mode:
Delete one character (backspace)

Answer 3

<C-h>

Question 4

Insert mode:
Delete back one word

Answer 4

<C-w>

Question 5

Insert mode:
Delete back to start of line

Answer 5

<C-u>

Question 6

Insert mode:
Switch to Normal mode

Answer 6

<Esc> or <C-[>

Question 7

Insert mode:
Switch to Insert Normal Mode

Answer 7

<C-o>

Question 8

Redraw screen with the current line in the middle of the window

Answer 8

zz

Question 9

Join current and next line together

Answer 9

J

Question 10

Look up man page for the word under cursor

Answer 10

K

Question 11

Insert mode:
Result of 7*67

Answer 11

<C-r>=7*67<CR>

Question 12

Switch to character-wise Visual mode

Answer 12

v

Question 13

Switch to line-wise Visual mode

Answer 13

V

Question 14

Switch to block-wise Visual mode

Answer 14

<C-v>

Question 15

Reselect the last visual selection

Answer 15

gv

Question 16

Visual mode:
Go to other end of highlighed text

Answer 16

o

Question 17

Make {motion} text uppercase.

Answer 17

gU{motion}

Question 18

Make current line uppercase

Answer 18

gUgU or gUU

Question 19

Make {motion} text lowervase

Answer 19

gu{motion}

Question 20

Switch case of the current line

Answer 20

g~~

Question 21

how to choose area for Ex mode limit

Answer 21

After selecting area in visual mode, just press : to limit next command to this selection only. Super useful for find and replace etc.

Question 22

Repeat the last Ex command

Answer 22

@:

Question 23

Ex mode:
Copy current word under cursor into command line

Answer 23

<C-r><C-w>

Question 24

Open the command-line window with history of Ex commands

Answer 24

q:

Question 25

Open the command-line window with history of searches

Answer 25

q/

Question 26

Execute program in shell

Answer 26

:!{program}

Question 27

Command mode: Current file path

Answer 27

%

Question 28

Suspend current Vim session and enter terminal

Answer 28

Ctrl-z

Question 29

Return back to suspended job from terminal

Answer 29

fg

Question 30

Pass the contents of the buffer as standard input to the external *{cmd}* command

Answer 30

:write !{cmd}

Question 31

Read the contents of external *{cmd}* command into current buffer

Answer 31

:read !{cmd}

Question 32

Sort current buffer from 2nd row onwards, delimiter by `,` and use second column as sort key

Answer 32

:2,$!sort -t',' -k2

Question 33

Difference between buffer and file

Answer 33

Buffer are in-memory representation of file, while files are saved to disk.

Question 34

List current buffers

Answer 34

:ls

Question 35

Next buffer

Answer 35

:bnext

Question 36

Toggle between current and alternative buffer

Answer 36

\

Question 37

Print list of Vim args

Answer 37

:args

Question 38

Next and Previous argument

Answer 38

:next and :prev

Question 39

Save buffer contents to file

Answer 39

:w[rite]

Question 40

Discard buffer changes and re-read from file from disk

Answer 40

:e[dit]!

Question 41

Close Vim

Answer 41

:q

Question 42

Quit all Vim buffers without saving

Answer 42

:qa[ll]!

Question 43

Write all buffers

Answer 43

:wa[ll]

Question 44

Cycle between open windows

Answer 44

\w or \\

Question 45

Move between windows left/down/up/right

Answer 45

\ h/j/k/l

Question 46

Split current window horizontally

Answer 46

\s

Question 47

Split current window vertically

Answer 47

\v

Question 48

Split the current window horizontally, loading {file} into the new window

Answer 48

:sp[lit] {file}

Question 49

Split the current window vertically, loading {file} into the new window

Answer 49

:vsp[lit] {file}

Question 50

Cycle focus between open windows

Answer 50

\w

Question 51

Focus the window to the left,below, above, right.

Answer 51

\h/j/k/l

Question 52

Close active window

Answer 52

\c

Question 53

Keep only the active window, closing all others

Answer 53

\o

Question 54

Open {filename} in a new tab

Answer 54

:tabe[dit] {filename}

Question 55

Move current window into its own tab

Answer 55

\T

Question 56

Close the current tab page and all of its windows

Answer 56

:tabc[lose]

Question 57

Keep the active tab page, closing all others

Answer 57

:tabo[nly]

Question 58

Switch to tab page number N

Answer 58

{N}gt

Question 59

Switch to next tab page

Answer 59

gt

Question 60

Switch to previous tab page

Answer 60

gT

Question 61

current path

Answer 61

:pwd

Question 62

Current buffer path without file name

Answer 62

%:h

Question 63

Find a file

Answer 63

:find {path to file}

Question 64

Move cursor to first nonblank character of real line

Answer 64

^

Question 65

Forward to start of next word

Answer 65

w

Question 66

Backward to start of current/previous word

Answer 66

b

Question 67

Forward to end of current/next word

Answer 67

e

Question 68

Backward to end of previous word

Answer 68

ge

Question 69

Forward to start of next WORD

Answer 69

W

Question 70

Backward to the previous occurrence of {char}

Answer 70

F{char}

Question 71

Forward to the next occurrence of {char}

Answer 71

f{char}

Question 72

Repeat the last character-search command

Answer 72

;

Question 73

Reverse the last character-search command

Answer 73

,

Question 74

Text object: Inside (parentheses)

Answer 74

i) or ib

Question 75

Text object: Around {braces}

Answer 75

a} or aB

Question 76

Text object: A pair of [brackets]

Answer 76

a]

Question 77

Text object: Inside of XML tag

Answer 77

it

Question 78

Text object: In sentence

Answer 78

is

Question 79

Text object: Around paragraph (plus blank lines)

Answer 79

ap

Question 80

Delete a word in sentence

Answer 80

daw (better than diw, as it removes white spaces)

Question 81

change the word

Answer 81

ciw (better than caw, as it preserves spaces)

Question 82

Set a mark m

Answer 82

mm

Question 83

move cursor back to mark m

Answer 83

`m

Question 84

Current buffer's path

Answer 84

Ctrl+g

Question 85

Jump to matching parantheses

Answer 85

%

Question 86

Jump to file name under the cursor

Answer 86

gf

Question 87

Jump to definition of keyword under the cursor

Answer 87

\ or gd

Question 88

Comment out current line

Answer 88

gcc

Question 89

Special registers: Name of the current file

Answer 89

"%

Question 90

Special registers: Name of the alternate file

Answer 90

"#

Question 91

Special registers: Last search pattern

Answer 91

"/

Question 92

Special registers: Last Ex command

Answer 92

":

Question 93

Efficient way to copy word and replace another

Answer 93

yiw -> move to word to change -> viw -> p

Question 94

paste buffer before cursor (useful when pasting words)

Answer 94

P

Question 95

Insert mode: Paste current buffer

Answer 95

\0