Vim in Production

Cut, copy and paste

You need to be in Visual mode esc then v

• V to select entire line
• d (aka delete) to cut it, y (aka yank) to copy it
• p to paste (after cursor)
• P to paste before cursor

Switch between windows

e.g. you need to move between the NERDTree and Vim edit windows..

ctrl + ww to toggle between windows ctrl + w then l to go to left window ctrl + w then h to go to right window

Links

• Copy, cut and paste
• StackOverflow: Two basic questions with NERDTree — switching windows and finding files