https://github.com/thoughtbot/vimulator

A JavaScript Vim simulator for demonstrations
https://github.com/thoughtbot/vimulator

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A JavaScript Vim simulator for demonstrations

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thoughtbot/vimulator
• Owner: thoughtbot
• Archived: true
• Created: 2012-12-05T17:19:02.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-11-20T17:01:30.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T01:37:13.144Z (6 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 446 KB
• Stars: 120
• Watchers: 51
• Forks: 19
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Vimulator

Vimulator is a Vim simulator for teaching and demonstrating Vim. It has a

subset of normal mode commands, and an insert mode.

[Try it out](http://thoughtbot.github.com/vimulator/) and

[run the tests](http://thoughtbot.github.com/vimulator/test.html) online.

## Supported commands

### Motions

* h: Move left

* j: Move down

* k: Move up

* l: Move right

* 0: Move to the start of the line (before leading whitespace)

* ^: Move to the start of the line (after leading whitespace)

* $: Move to the end of the line

* w: Move to the next word

* W: Move to the next WORD

* e: Move to the next word ending

* E: Move to the next WORD ending

* b: Move back to the previous word

* B: Move back to the previous WORD

* gg: Move to the first line of the file (or a specific line, if a count is given)

* G: Move to the last line of the file (or a specific line, if a count is given)

* + or Return: Move to the start of the next line (after leading whitespace)

* -: Move to the start of the previous line (after leading whitespace)

### Document search

* /: Search forwards

* ?: Search backwards

* n: Go to the next match for the latest search

* N: Go to the previous match for the latest search

### Marks

* m: Create a mark

* \`: Move to a given mark

* ': Move to the line containing a given mark

### Insertion

* a: Append text after the cursor

* A: Append text at the end of the line

* i: Insert text before the cursor

* I: Insert text at the start of the line (after leading whitespace)

* gI: Insert text at the start of the line (before leading whitespace)

* o: Open the next line

* O: Open the previous line

* s: Substitute characters under the cursor

* S: Substitute to the end of the line

### Operators

* c, cc and C: Change text

* d, dd and D: Delete text

Operators work with all of the motions and document search commands listed

above, and the following text objects:

* i or a followed by b, ( or

  ): Inside or around parenthesis

* i or a followed by B, { or

  }: Inside or around braces

* i or a followed by [ or ]: Inside

  or around square brackets

### Line search

* f: Find the next occurrence of a character

* F: Find the previous occurrence of a character

* t: Find the character before the next occurrence of a character

* T: Find the character after the previous ocurrence of a character

* ;: Repeat the last line search

* ,: Repeat the last line search, reversing the direction

### Edits

* r: Replace the character under the cursor

* x: Delete the character under the cursor

* X: Delete the character before the cursor

* .: Repeat the last edit or operator

### Yank and put

* yy or Y: Yank the current line

* p: Put the most recently yanked line after the current line

* P: Put the most recently yanked line before the current line

## License

Vimulator is licensed under the [MIT license][mit].

[mit]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT