Jason's vi reference page

Note: when invoking vi, execute a "vi filename" from the UNIX shell prompt. All commands are then seperated by a pressing of the <escape> key.

Command:	Meaning:
a	Append text after cursor
A	Append text at line's end
i	Insert text before the cursor
I	Insert text at the beginning of the line
o	Open a new line, below the cursor
O	Open a new line above the cursor
h	Move left one character
j	Move down one line
k	Move up one line
l	Move right (forward) one character
w	Move right (forward) one word
W	Move right one word (past punctuation)
b	Move left (backward) one word
B	Move left (backward) one word (past punctuation)
e	Move to end of the current word
<Return>	Move down one line
H	Move to top of screen
M	Move to middle of screen
L	Move to bottom of the screen
G	Go to the end of the file (last line)
1G	Go to the first line of the file
21G	Go to line 21
nG	Go to line 'n'
<Control>-f	Page forward one screen
<Control>-d	Scroll down one half screen
<Control>-b	Page back one screen
<Control>-u	Scroll up one half screen
x	Delete the character at the cursor
X	Delete character to the left of the cursor
dw	Delete the word to the right of the cursor
dd	Delete the whole line that the cursor is on
D	Delete from the cursor to the end of the current line
dG	Delete from the cursor to the end of the file
d1G	Delete from the beginning of the file to the cursor
:5,10d	Delete lines 5 through 10
cw	Change (replace) word at the cursor location
cw#	Change (replace) the number of words indicated by '#'
R	Change (replace) line
C	Change from cursor to the end of the line
s	Substitute string of characters from cursor forward
r	Replace character at cursor with another character
r <Return> i <Return>	Break line
J	Join current line and line below
xp	Transpose character at cursor and character to the right
~	Change case of letter (upper or lower)
u	Undo previous command
U	Undo all changes to current line
:u	Undo previous changes to last line command
yy	Yank (copy) the current line
Y	Yank (copy) the current line
p	Put yanked (or deleted) line below the current line
P	Put yanked (or deleted) line above the current line
:1,3 co 5	Copy lines 1 through 3 and put them below line 5
:4,6 m 8	Move lines 4 through 6 to line 8.
:w	Save changes (write to file)
:w new_filename	Save as a new_filename
:wq	Save and quit
:wq!	Forced write (even on files with no write access) and quit (owner only).
zz	Save changes and quit vi
:q!	Quit without saving changes
:! cmd	execute cmd
:e file	edit file
:n	next file; when editting multiple files
:r file	read the contents of file into editor
:r! cmd	read output of cmd into text
:se	displays currently set options
:se all	displays all available options
:set nu	Show line numbers
:set nonu	Hide line numbers
:set ic	Searches should ignore case
:set noic	Searches should be case sensitive
:set list	Turn of the display of invisible characters
:set showmode	Turn on input mode identification
:set noshowmode	Turn off input mode identification
<Control>-l	Clear (refresh) scrambled screen
/string	Search forward for string
?string	Search backward for string
n	Find next occurence of string in search direction
N	Find previous occurence of string in search direction
:s/old/new/g	Search and replace in the current line
:%s/old/new/g	Search and replace globally (whole file)

Other vi reference pages can be found at:

http://www.wittys.com/vi.20030112.html - Jason's vi page - text only
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~totten/vi/
http://www.hackensackhigh.org/viref.html
http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/vi.html
http://www.kichwa.com/quik_ref/vi_ref.html

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