bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet

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Bourne again shell (bash) has two input editing modes - emacs and vi. This is vi editing mode cheat sheet. It lists all the keyboard shortcuts available in vi mode. It will make you much more productive in the shell.

It was created by Peteris Krumins ([email protected]). His blog is at http://www.catonmat.net -- good coders code, great reuse.

The cheat sheet is released under GNU Free Documentation License.

The cheat sheet was created as supplementary material to my popular article "Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode". This article can be read on my website at the following address:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet/

This cheat sheet is the 2nd in the series of working efficiently on the command line.

The first article is "Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet": http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-sheet/

And the third is "The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History": http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-bash-command-line-history/

The vi editing mode cheat sheet contains the following shortcuts:

* Switching to command mode.
* Commands for entering the input mode.
* Basic movement commands.
* Character finding commands.
* Deletion commands.
* Undo, redo, copy/paste commands.
* Commands for shell history.
* Completion commands.
* Miscellaneous commands.

It's available in .txt (ascii), .pdf and latex (.tex) formats. The latest version of this cheat sheet can always be downloaded here:

.txt: http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet.txt .pdf: http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet.pdf .tex: http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet.tex

To create a new .pdf from latex's .tex, use pdflatex command:

$ pdflatex bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet.tex

This will produce bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet.pdf

Have fun and be more productive on command line!

Sincerely, Peteris Krumins http://www.catonmat.net