Normal mode commands: -> for navigating the file opened in vim: h: to go left. l: to go right. j: to go down. k: to go up. ctrl + f: To do page down. Similar to page down button. ctrl + b: To do page up. Similar to page up button. z + : To bring the focus of vision to the top where the cursor is currently present. z + z: To bring the focus of vision to the center where the cursor is currently present. w: To move the cursor by one word on the file. It include the punctuation as a word.(move one word forward) W: To move the cursor by one word on file. It don't include the punctuation as a word.(move one word forward) b: To move the cursor by one word on file. It include the punctuation as a word.(move on word backward) B: To move the cursor by one word on file. It include the punctuation as a word.(move on word backward) 0: To move the first column of the current line the cursor is present. ^: To move the first letter of the first word of the current line the cursor is present. $: To move the last letter of the last word of the current line the cursor is present. gg: To move the first column of the first line of the file. G: To move to the last line of the file. gg or G: To move the particular as mentioned. ctrl + g: To know the current line we are on, the file name, the percentage of we have covered according to current cursor position. g + (ctrl+g): To get more detailed information of whatever the previous was showing. -> Deleting text from file in normal mode: x: To delete the right side byte of the current cursor position. X: To delete the left side byte of the current cursor position. Using d to delete words with motion operation: {motion} for ex: dw (this delete the what the w command would move the cursor by) dw: To delete a word in front of the current cursor position. dl: To delete next byte towards right from current cursor position on current line. dh: To delete next byte towards left from current cursor position on current line. dj: To delete whole current line and the line below. dk: To delete whole current line and the line above. d$: To delete from current position of cursor to the end of the line. d0: To delete from current position to the first letter of the current line the cursor is present. D: Equivalent of of what d$ dd: To delete the current line entirely no matter where the cursor is present currently on that same line. dd: To delete the 3 lines below from current line where the cursor is present. Note: is telling in short hand on how many times the delete-command given should be executed. Same as the command shown above (dd). dw: delete-word command to be executed numbers of times. For ex: 3w = Repeat word motion 3 times. d3w = Delete the 3w motion. 2d3w = Delete the 3w motion 2 times. Line mode: -> for navigating using line mode: : : To go to the particular . :$ : To move to the last line in the file. !(exclamation mark): This Operator can be used to force the commands for ex: :q! is used to force quit the vim even if the changes on files are not saved. -> help command (for vim documentation): :help : It will open vim documentation. :help [command] : It will open documentation to a specific location where the specification for that specific command is present. :help {subject} : It will open documentation to a specific location where the specification for the given subject. :h : It is a short cut for :help in line mode. (CTRL+w) + (CTRL+w): It is used to switch b/w windows currently open in vim for editing. (CTRL+o): Take you to the location where the previous search is done in the document. (CTRL+i): Take you to the location where the next search is done in the document. (CTRL+]): Place the cursor on the "subject" you want to search (for ex. linewise) and press this command. Note: Anything between [] in help documentation means it is optional in vim. For autocompleting a command which is to be searched in help documentation click CTRL+D, which shows suggestation. To iterate through all the suggestion without writing it explicity use key. To iterate in reverse order use +.