Vim (aka. VSCodeVim) is a Visual Studio Code extension that enables the power of the Vim keybinding experience within Visual Studio Code.

1. Within Visual Studio Code, open the command palette (Ctrl-Shift-P / Cmd-Shift-P)
2. Select Install Extension and search for 'vim' or run ext install vim

Adjust configurations through user settings (File -> Preferences -> User Settings).

• vim.keyboardLayout:
  • Supported Values: en-US (QWERTY) (default), es-ES (QWERTY), de-DE (QWERTZ), da-DK (QWERTY)

Check out our release notes for more notes. The tables below are obviously an incomplete list, but show, at a glance, the current commands supported:

                | g0                        | to first character in screen line (differs from "0" when lines wrap)
                | g^                        | to first non-blank character in screen line (differs from "^" when lines wrap)
                | g$                        | to last character in screen line (differs from "$" when lines wrap)
                | |                    | to column N (default: 1)
                | f<char>                   | to the Nth occurrence of <char> to the right
                | F<char>                   | to the Nth occurrence of <char> to the left
                | t<char>                   | till before the Nth occurrence of <char> to the right
                | T<char>                   | till before the Nth occurrence of <char> to the left
                | ;                         | repeat the last "f", "F", "t", or "T" N times
                | ,                         | repeat the last "f", "F", "t", or "T" N times in opposite direction

                | -                         | up, on the first non-blank character
                | +                         | down, on the first non-blank character (also: CTRL-M and <CR>)
                | _                         | down N-1 lines, on the first non-blank character

✅ | G | goto last line, on the first non-blank character ✅ | gg | goto frst line, on the firstnon-blank character | % | goto line N percentage down in the file. N must be given, otherwise it is the % command. matching brace | % | jump to matching brace, C-style comment, C/C++ preprocessor conditional
| gk | up N screen lines (differs from "k" when line wraps) | gj | down N screen lines (differs from "j" when line wraps) :white_check_mark: | CTRL-F | page down :white_check_mark: | CTRL-B | page up

                | E                         | forward to the end of the Nth blank-separated WORD

✅ | b | words backward ✅ | B | N blank-separated WORDS backward | ge | backward to the end of the Nth word | gE | backward to the end of the Nth blank-separated WORD

                | <Del>                     | delete N characters under and after the cursor

✅ | X | delete N characters before the cursor dw, db | d{motion} | delete the text that is moved over with {motion} | {visual}d | delete the highlighted text ✅ | dd | delete N lines | D | delete to end-of-line (and N-1 more lines) | J | join N-1 lines (delete newlines) | {visual}J | join the highlighted lines

                | U                         | restore last changed line

This project is maintained by a group of awesome contributors. Thank you! ❤️

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