Evil-mode is an Emacs layer that allows editing using Vim. Therefore this is a also a cheat sheet for Vim itself.

Cheat Sheet for Evil mode

Navigating

• h
• j
• k
• l
• w: move forward by one word
• b: move backward by one word, the opposite of w.
• e: move forward to the end of a word
• gg
• G
• :<NUM>: Go to line number
• 0: = Home
• $: = End
• C-u: move up half screen
• C-d: move down half screen
• C-f: move down a whole page
• C-b: move up a whole page

Enter Insert State

• i
• a
• I
• A
• $a
• s: delete a char and insert.
• S: (substitute) delete the whole line and start from the begining, = 0C.

Editing

• y: yank/copy
• yy: yank the current line
• p: paste
• P: paste before cursor
• d: delete/cut
• D: delete to the end of the line
• dt.: delete to the period. Similar as df., which will delete . as well.
• u: undo
• C-R: redo
• x: delete char at current position.
• X: delete char before current position.

Replace

• r
• R
• :s/old_word/new_word/gc: g means “global”, parameter c means “confirmation”
• cw: change word

Search

• /: search forward.
• ?: search backward.
• * or #: find the previous/next occurance of current word in Evil-mode.
• f<char>: find the next <char>. f3c can find the 3rd occurence of c.
• F<char>: the opposite of the above.
• t<: find forward and land right before the char.

Miscellaneous Command

• :!<command>
• .: repeat the previous command. Be careful of what is the “previous command”.

Formatting

• ~: toggle upper and lower case of the current char.
• gq ap: format the whole paragraph.

Visual Mode

• v: select char
• V: select line
• C-v: select paragraph

Advanced

• daw: delete around word.
• diw: delete inside word.
• dis
• das
• cis: delete and insert at current sentence
• dip: paragraph
• dap
• di' / da': single quote
• di" / da": double quote
• [ai]["`([{"]: all kinds of scope
• dit / dat: inside / around tag
• replace d above by v: visualize the designated scope.
• vipyjjp: copy this paragraph and paste it below. (just some combination)
• qa, insert a : at the beginning of the line, go to next line, q: finish recording a macro, next, 100@a, now, next 100 lines has a : in front of them.
• Some possible macros:
  • Search within the line for “widget”;
  • Go to the end of line and add a .;
  • Delete any whitespaces at the end of the line.
• cs"': change the surrounding double quotes to single ones.
• cs'<p>: change single quotes to <p>.
• ds': delete the surrounding single quotes.
• ysiw': wrap current word with '.
• :%y+: copy all, = Ctrl + A in casual text editor.
  • gg"+yG: similar function.
  • ggvG: similar function, text not copied. Press y to do so.