Welcome to my personal repository where I store all the most commonly used VS Code Vim commands. This is a collection of useful shortcuts and commands that enhance my productivity when using Vim inside VS Code.
These are some of the essential Vim commands I use frequently in VS Code:
:w— Save the file 💾:q— Quit the editor ❌:wq— Save and quit 💾❌:x— Save and close if there are changes 💾🔒:e <file>— Open a file 📂
Text objects allow you to quickly select or manipulate parts of your text.
yi"— Yank everything inside double quotes (") 📋ya"— Yank everything inside double quotes including the quotes 📝yi'— Yank everything inside single quotes (') 📋ya'— Yank everything inside single quotes including the quotes 📝vi"— Visually select everything inside double quotes 🔲va"— Visually select everything inside double quotes including the quotes 🔲D- Delete everything after cursor
Search and replace is made easy with Vim commands:
/text— Search for the texttext🔍:%s/old/new/g— Replace all occurrences ofoldwithnewin the file 🔄:noh— Remove search highlight 🚫
Here’s a list of all the commands I’ve stored in this repo:
yi"— Yank everything inside double quotes 📋ya"— Yank everything inside double quotes including the quotes 📝yi'— Yank everything inside single quotes 📋ya'— Yank everything inside single quotes including the quotes 📝vi"— Select everything inside double quotes 🔲va"— Select everything inside double quotes including the quotes 🔲:w— Save the file 💾:q— Quit the editor ❌:wq— Save and quit 💾❌:x— Save and close if there are changes 💾🔒:e <file>— Open a file 📂/text— Search for the texttext🔍:%s/old/new/g— Replace all occurrences ofoldwithnew🔄:noh— Remove search highlight 🚫
yi"to yank text inside double quotes:%s/to search and replacectrl + rthen"to past yanked text/<text-to-replace-with>andenter