Vim Cheat Sheets

Vim cheat sheets. Some of these are pretty clever.

Vim Cheat Sheet for Programmers by Michael Pohoreski

It looks like a keyboard overlay, except it's not actually meant to go over your keyboard. There's a lot here, but it's kind of messy. Figuring out the intricacies of the design of this cheat sheet is probably a good proxy for figuring out the intricacies of the design of Vim's control scheme.

ViEmu Cheat Sheet and Tutorial

Not sure what's the point of designing a command reference around a keyboard layout.

The most important information is how the commands can be logically grouped to make them easier to remember, and how they can be used together to make them more useful. The least important information is where the keys that trigger the commands happen to be on the keyboard.

This one has a nice twist though – it's broken down into seven lessons that help you learn and practice Vim progressively:

• Basic editing, including hjkl wWbBeE $ ^ iA xX
• Operators and repetition, including tTfF d c vV .
• Yank and paste, including oO pP y "
• Searching, including /? nN #*
• Marks and macros, including m ' q @
• Various motions, including HML G K {} [] () -+ %
• Various commands, including ~ = Y sS J r D C <>

Only SVGs and PNGs are available at the link. See the bottom of the page for a list of links to alternate versions, including a single PDF with all pages.