Editing commands in Vim

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Commands

Replace/Change

There are two different commands for replacing/changing text in Vim

Replace

Using the replace command with r we enter into a special mode that allows up to input a single character, this will replace the character underneath the cursor.

Change

The change command is a bit more versatile, and it always needs to be combine in order to work (it wont do anythin with just c)
When using c you enter into insert mode replacing the desired text.

Command	Description
cc	change line
cw	change word (from current position)
ciw	change inside word
caw	change around word

More information of combining command in Vim grammar

Copy

Copy in Vim is called yank and and the command for that is y.
You will also need to combine this command with Vim grammar to make it work.

Command	Description
yy	yank line
cw	yank word (from current position to the end)

Cut and Delete

Cut and Delete are conveniently the same command, this means, everything you delete will be saved in the Vim clipboard (more on that in Vim registers)

Command	Description
dd	delete line
dw	delete word (from current position to the end)
d$	delete from current position to the end of line

Paste

Paste works just as expected, with the command p you’ll paste the last thing in your vim clipboard.
Although there are a lot of interesting uses when combined with registers

Using inside Visual Mode

You can also combine c, y, p and d with any of the Visual modes
If you enter visual mode you’ll be able to copy, replace and delete the text you select, also exiting back to normal mode

Copy and pasting to the system’s clipboard

Vim has an independet clipboard from the one in the rest of the system, which means you won’t be able to copy or paste text between applications whithout a bit more work.

In order to access the system’s clipboard you’ll need to add ”+ before the command, “+y for copy and “+p for paste.

Bind this commands to something simpler

In neovim you can use the next snippet to map it to <space>y and <space>p:

vim.g.mapleader = " "
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>y", "\"+y")
vim.keymap.set("v", "<leader>y", "\"+y")
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>p", "\"+p")