Vi

Links

• General
  • My links on vi on del.icio.us.
  • Official vim homepage.
• Fun
  • Vi would not be vi without a bit of fun...
  • Very funny material related to emacs vs. vi [1].
• Guides & Cheat sheets
  • Very good post explaining why vi is superior and defeating common misconception (with examples) [2].
  • Very good graphical cheatsheet
    • Direct links: overview and per-lesson.

Keyboard Shortcuts

! If keys HJKLM have been remapped to MHKJL, shortcut below must be changed accordingly !

Shortcut	Description	Custom
Ctrl+[	Same effect as Esc, but a bit faster/easier to type. Also works on AZERTY keyboard (but apparently not for AndLinux, snif!)
*	Search next occurence of word under cursor (Here more like this...)
#	Search previous occurence of word under cursor
gd	Search first occurence of current search

Some Stuff to Add in ~/vimrc file

(remarks: command in ~/vimrc file must not be prefixed with a colon :)

• To enable syntax highlighting + numbering:

syntax enable
set bg=light          " Use set bg=dark if console background color is dark
set number

• To remap movement key bindings to JKLM (instead of HJKL, so that they are right under right hand fingers on AZERTY keyboards) and inverting K and L (so that up arrow is under major finger as on a normal arrow pad). Commands on key 'M' are now on key 'H'.

nnoremap j h
nnoremap l j
"nnoremap k k
nnoremap m l
nnoremap h m
vnoremap j h
vnoremap l j
"vnoremap k k
vnoremap m l
vnoremap h m