Vim Cheat Sheat for Programmers by Michael Pohoreski

Update: Version 2.0 is up! There are now 4 versions to chose from:
(If you are wondering what the differences are between the screen and print: the screen has less color variations, and no gradients to make it easier to read.)

• One designed for on-screen reading: PDF (Excel 2011 source),
• One designed for hard-copy reading: PDF (Excel 2011 source),
• One designed for monochrome printing: PDF (Excel 2011 source), and
• One designed for Red/Green color bindness -- a "Blue" theme PDF (Excel 2011 source).

The color coded Legend / Keys helps provide guidance for your experience level.

•   Green   = Essential
•   Yellow   = Basic
•   Orange   / Blue = Advanced
•   Red   = Expert

If you don't like this version (I'd love to hear why) try these, you may find them more to your liking...

• http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
• http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vim.html
• http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html
• http://jrmiii.com/2009/03/06/learning-vim-the-pragmatic-way.html

Thanks to all the redditors for the feedback!  ~ Michael

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The on-screen 150 DPI .png version is shown...

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The color hard-copy 300 DPI .png version:

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The monochrome hard-copy 300 DPI .png version:

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An color blind hard-copy 150 DPI .png version:

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=== Vim Rants ===

Vim has 4 bugs...

• Unable to map Caps lock key, Ctrl-1, Ctrl-Shift-1, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-1, etc. !
• Unable to distinguish between TAB and Ctrl-I, ESC and Ctrl-[ ! Any _modern_ editor can tell the diffeence. It is not 1970 anymore people!
• :set list doesn't work for displaying all whitespace with a seperate character, i.e., listchars is missing an whitespace:+ option.
• The cursor movement keys h j k l are literally hard-coded throughout the source -- which also effects the netrw :Explore file browser. A user should be able to tell Vim what their 4 basic movement keys are, and ALL commands & Plugins should use THAT. The PROPER way to write code is to translate key presses into an enumeration, i.e. CMD_MOVE_UP, CMD_MOVE_DOWN, etc, and use THAT in your logic, NOT if (cmd == 'h') ....

Othe then that, Vim is a beautiful code editor!