Moving around in vi(m)

Although there are many editors available on the Linux commandline, there are sometimes well founded reasons to edit with vi or vim. When you are not familiar with the keyboard shortcuts how to move around vi, the picture below can be of help to get started.

Some movements

key	action
e	move to end of word
5e	move foreward to the end of the 5th word from the current position
w	move to next word
2w	move foreward to the 2nd word from the current position
b	move back to beginning of word (or special character)
3b	move back to second word AND character from current position
0 or ^	0 go to beginning of line or ^ to go to first non blank character (like code identions)
j	move to next line
k	move to previous line
1G or gg	1G go to 1st line or gg
G	go to last line of file

Some editings

key	action
o	insert line below current one and start editing
A	append at end of line and start editing
a	append at current position
x	delecte current character
dw	delete current word
cw	change current word
yy	copy current line
p	paste current buffer
dd	delete current line
10dd	delete 10 lines from current position
u	undo last action

The above are just a few of many keybindings that vi / vim has to offer. I had this picture printed out and on my desk to get familiar with the moves. It automatically moves into the background (under a pile of rubble) while you learn the keys by heart.