vim or vi is very powerful text editor used in Linux systems. As they provide a lot of features and used from command line they have a lot of commands and shortcuts. In this page we will list these commands as a cheat-sheet. We will look most used command and shortcuts in this tutorial which makes this guide as beginner guide.

Edit

Edit Current File

:edit

Edit Specific File

:edit text.txt

Insert

Append Text After Cursor

:a

Append Test At The End Of Line

:A

Insert Text Before Cursor

:i

Insert Text Before  First Non-Blank In The Line

:I

Begin New Line Below And Insert Text

:o

Begin New Line Above And Insert Text

:O

Delete

Delete Character Before Cursor

:x

Delete Character After Cursor

:X

Delete Current Line

:dd

Delete Multiple Lines From Current Line

:d5d

Save

Save

:w

Save As

:w deneme.txt

Exit

Exit

:x

Save and Exit

:wq

Exit Without Saving Changes

:q!