Vimtutor

Question 1

Direction Controls

Answer 1

h (left), j (down), k (up), l (right)

Question 2

Delete any character under the cursor

Answer 2

x

Question 3

Insert text

Answer 3

i

Question 4

Append text

Answer 4

a

Question 5

Delete word

Answer 5

dw

Question 6

Delete to the end of a line

Answer 6

d$

Question 7

Delete operator

Answer 7

d

Question 8

Delete motions

Answer 8

w - start of the next word excluding the first character
e - to the end of the current word including the last character
$ - to the end of the line including the last character

Question 9

Moving through a line

Answer 9

nw - n words forward
ne - to move the cursor to the end of the nth word forward
0 - moves to the start of the line

Question 10

Delete an entire line

Answer 10

dd

Question 11

Undo last command

Answer 11

u

Question 12

Redo last command

Answer 12

CTRL-r

Question 13

Put command

Answer 13

After deleting, press p to paste

Question 14

Replace

Answer 14

r and then whatever letter you want to replace it with

Question 15

Change

Answer 15

c
ce - until the end of a word

Question 16

Show location and file status

Answer 16

CTRL-g

Question 17

Move to bottom of file

Answer 17

G

Question 18

Move to top of file

Answer 18

gg

Question 19

Move to a specific line in a file

Answer 19

<number>G
</number>

Question 20

Searching for a phrase

Answer 20

/phrase

Question 21

Search for a phrase again

Answer 21

n

Question 22

Search for the same phrase in the opposite direction

Answer 22

N

Question 23

Searching backwards

Answer 23

?phrase

Question 24

Go back where you came from

Answer 24

CTRL-o

Question 25

Go forward in a search

Answer 25

CRTL-i

Question 26

Find a matching parentheses

Answer 26

% when on one

Question 27

Substitute new for old

Answer 27

:s/new/old/g

Question 28

Change every occurrence of a character string between two lines

Answer 28

:#,#s/old/new/g

where #,# are the line numbers of the range of lines where the substitution is to be done.

Question 29

Change every occurrence in the whole file

Answer 29

:%s/old/new/g

Question 30

Execute an external shell method

Answer 30

:!<method></method>

Question 31

Save the changes to a new file

Answer 31

:w FILENAME

Question 32

Visual selection

Answer 32

v

Question 33

Insert the contents of a file

Answer 33

:r FILENAME

Question 34

Insert a line below

Answer 34

o

Question 35

Insert a line above

Answer 35

O

Question 36

Replace more than one character

Answer 36

R

Question 37

Copy text

Answer 37

y

Question 38

Paste text

Answer 38

p

Question 39

Set ignore case

Answer 39

:set ic

Question 40

Set hlsearch

Answer 40

:set hls

Question 41

Set incsearch

Answer 41

:set is

Question 42

Ignore case for one search command

Answer 42

/phrase\c

Question 43

Show list of matching commands

Answer 43

CTRL-d

Question 44

Command line completion

Answer 44

Tab