For years, I’ve been somewhat avoiding learning any advanced features of VIM. I have always predominantly relied on desktop editors for anything complex and just use VI to do basic text modification.

Anyway, I’m finally trying to change that. So, I’ll start forcing myself to do things in VIM and will record the keys here over time. I’m just starting with one command though; so it’ll be a while before this is useful! 🙂

My Cheat Sheet

Remember, generally you want to press “esc” before doing these.

• Search Forward & Backwards
  • Forward = /search-term
  • Backward = ?search-term
• Show or Hide Line Numbers
  • : set number
  • :set nonumber
• Edit Multiple Lines (e.g. Block Comment Lines 10-20 With #)
  • :10,20s/^/#/
• Clear Highlight After Search
  • There are some fancy ways, but just search for something that won’t exist and it will clear.  For example:
    • /blahfwoeaf