Feature List

We try to keep this up to date, but sometimes implementation can get ahead of documentation. If a command is missing, just try it in XVim first - it might already be there!

If you've tried a command and it really is missing, feel free to create an issue and a friendly contributor will pick it up eventually.

Motion

b, B, f, F, gg, G, h, j, k, l, w, W, t, T, 0, $, ^, %, +, -, {, }, (, ), n, N, ', `, M, H, L

Comma and semicolon are supported. Toggle inclusive/exclusive by v is supported.

Mark

File-local marks are supported. Global marks are not yet supported.

The '.' mark (last insertion point) is supported. gi (insert mode at last insertion point) is supported.

Scroll

C-d, C-f, C-e, C-u, C-b, C-y, zz, zb, zt

Jumps

C-o, C-i, gd

If you want to open the file under the cursor you can use 'gd' instead of 'gf' in XVim environment.

Insert

a, A, i, I, o, O

Yank, put and change

d, dd, D, y, yy, Y, c, cc, C, r, s, x, X

Line join

J

Shift block

Normal mode: >, >>, <, <<

Visual mode: >, <

Case change operations

Normal mode: ~, gu, gU, g~

Visual mode: u, U, ~, gu, gU

Undo

u, C-r

Visual

v, V

Ctrl-v is not supported now. (v, V in visual mode to toggle or escape from visual mode is supported)

Visual block mode is currently not supported.

Window manipulation

Search and Replace

/, ?, #, *, g*, g#, :s, n, N

Regex search is supported using the ICU regex format.

Substitution does not work as Vim does. When you input command following

:%s/xxxx/yyyy/

XVim does replace the first occurence of xxxx IN THE FILE (not each line ). If you want to replace all the occurence of xxxx with yyyy in the file you can specify

:%s/xxxx/yyyy/g

Currently replacing first occurence of xxxx with yyyy each line is not available

Insert mode commands

C-y, C-e

Print status commands

C-g

Text Object

ib, iB, i(, i), i{, i}, i[, i], i>, i<, i", i', iw, iW ab, aB, a(, a), a{, a}, a[, a], a>, a<, a", a', aw, aW

Recording

q, @

Dot command

The dot command ('.') is supported.

Ex commands

XVim original commands

Options

pasteboard

guioptions

A limited subset of Vim options is implemented.

These changes only take effect on startup, meaning this option is only effective if used from within your .xvimrc.

Key mapping

XVim supports five map commands: map, nmap, vmap, imap, omap. A map command can change one or more keystrokes into one or more key strokes.

Note: The default timeout value for multi-key mapping completion is 1 seconds (1000 milliseconds). You can change it using 'timeoutlen' option.

Examples:

nmap n e
imap ' <Esc>
nmap u 5jiInsert some text<Esc>
nmap ,w :w<cr>

.xvimrc

At startup XVim looks for ~/.xvimrc. Each line in this file is executed as an ex command. This allows you to configure mappings and options.

Example:

set ignorecase
set wrapscan
set guioptions=r
nmap n e

Known problems

See XVim issue page.