VIM Quick Reference Card

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Introduction

Everything you need to know to master VIM, a free vi clone running under various platforms. The VIM Quick Reference Card is released under the GNU GPL (General Public Licence).

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Catalan translation by Enric Meinhardt Llopis! See below for download.

Overview

This card contains the most used commands, sorted by category, on the following topics:

Basic and advanced movement;
Inserting and replacing text;
Ex commands;
Copying and transforming;
Visual mode, screen commands;
Tags, mapping and abreviations;
And much more...!

Handy on your desk as a quick guide, you will always learn one more funky vim command to improve once again your C++ hourly coding rate, or impress your notepad user colleagues! The card is divided on three columns and its printout is designed to be folded twice to produce an easy-to-handle quick reference card (hence the name.)

Download / Browse

Choose a computer language (PDF, DVI, TeX, HTML) and a human language:

Format Language	PDF (Approx. 100 Ko)	DVI (Approx. 40 Ko)	TeX (Approx. 15 Ko)	HTML (Approx. 40 Ko)
Catalan (Català)	`vimqrc-ca.pdf`	`vimqrc-ca.dvi`	`vimqrc-ca.tex`	`vimqrc-ca.html`
English	`vimqrc.pdf`	`vimqrc.dvi`	`vimqrc.tex`	`vimqrc.html`
French (Français)	`vimqrc-fr.pdf`	`vimqrc-fr.dvi`	`vimqrc-fr.tex`	`vimqrc-fr.html`
German (Deutsch)	`vimqrc-ge.pdf`	`vimqrc-ge.dvi`	`vimqrc-ge.tex`	`vimqrc-ge.html`
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)	`vimqrc-id.pdf`	`vimqrc-id.dvi`	`vimqrc-id.tex`	`vimqrc-id.html`
Italian (Italiano)	`vimqrc-it.pdf`	`vimqrc-it.dvi`	`vimqrc-it.tex`	`vimqrc-it.html`
Portuguese (Português)	`vimqrc-pt.pdf`	`vimqrc-pt.dvi`	`vimqrc-pt.tex`	`vimqrc-pt.html`
Spanish/Castilian (Español)	`vimqrc-es.pdf`	`vimqrc-es.dvi`	`vimqrc-es.tex`	`vimqrc-es.html`
Swedish (Svenska)	`vimqrc-se.pdf`	`vimqrc-se.dvi`	`vimqrc-se.tex`	`vimqrc-se.html`

Do it yourself

Here is the list of commands used to produce the card.

To produce the PDF output from the TeX source:
$ pdftex vimqrc.tex

To produce the DVI version from the TeX source:
$ tex vimqrc.tex

To print from DVI with dvips the first page:
$ dvips -t a4 -t landscape -A vimqrc.dvi

To print the second page:
$ dvips -t a4 -t landscape -B vimqrc.dvi

Contributions

I would like to thank many people for their useful remarks or help regarding this card, including (chronological order):

Christian Lindig, Harvard University (Suggestions)
Vijayvithal Jahagirdar, Texas Instrument (Suggestions)
Solena Le Moigne, Xerox Corporation (English proofreading)
Louis Lesko (Suggestions)
Dwaine Gonyier, Cisco Systems (Suggestions)
John Harrold, Pittsburg University (Suggestions)
Hans Fugal (Distribution)
Fritz Mehner, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (Typo, German translation)
Misha Brukman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Typo, proofreading)
Paulo R. Ormenese (Portuguese translation)
Pär Karlsson (Swedish translation - http://feinorgh.homelinux.org/docs)
Edwin Maolana (Indonesian translation)
T. Bugra Uytun (Folding commands)
Steve McCracken (US letter proposal)
Roberto Pauletto (Italian translation)
Alexander Livingstone (Format typo)
Augusto Henrique Hentz (Search pattern mistake)
Pablo Hoffman (Spanish Translation - http://pablohoffman.com/)
Greg Amer (special caracters suggestion)
David Coons, ITP Corp. (:ex move command)
Enric Meinhardt-Llopis (Catalan translation)

If you have any comments or suggestion about the card, do not hesitate to contact the author for including bugfixes, new features or making translation in your very own language!

For more information on VIM, please visit the VIM website at http://www.vim.org/. The author does not accept any responsibilities for errors or omission on the card. For more information on the GNU GPL licensing, please visit the GNU website at: http://www.gnu.org/.

Copyright © 2001-2007 Laurent Grégoire <laurent.gregoire@gmail.com> - Generated from 'vim.wml' on 2007-09-04 10:07:01 with the WML scripting language on a Linux 2.6.28-13-generic box - Source file edited with vim.