Vim Hotkeys

It documents 228 Vim keyboard shortcuts organized into five categories: Diff, Editing, Global, Macros, and Working with multiple files. The page covers Vim on Linux.

Start with Editing and Global. Those two categories hold the movement, insertion, deletion, and command-mode shortcuts that you will reach for constantly. Diff, Macros, and multiple-file workflows can wait until you are comfortable with the basics.

The page is scoped to Linux. Vim's core shortcuts are largely the same across platforms, but this reference does not document macOS- or Windows-specific builds or terminal quirks.

Editing, Global, and Working with multiple files come up in regular use. Macros and Diff are more situational: Macros matters once you start automating repetitive edits, and Diff is specific to comparing file versions.