Evil Keybinding Reference

An alphabetically ordered reference of Vim-style key bindings.

Normal mode keybindings

Keybindings available in Evil normal mode and the resultant state they leave you in.

Keybinding	Description	State
@	execute keyboard macro (defined by q)	Normal
'	jump to mark (defined by m)	Normal
a	append text after cursor	Insert
a	append text after cursor	Insert
A	append text to end of sentence	Insert
b	move cursor back to start of previous word	Normal
B	move cursor back to start of last word	Normal
c	change (use with modifier)	Insert
C	change rest of sentence	Insert
d	delete (use with modifier)	Normal
D	delete rest of sentence	Normal
e	end of word	Normal
E	end of word (seems same as above)	Normal
f	find character forward (type character)	Normal
F	find character backward (type character)	Normal
fd	Escape (press almost together)	Normal
g	go menu	Normal
G	Jump to end of buffer	Normal
h	move cursor left	Normal
H	move cursor to top of buffer	Normal
i	insert text	Insert
I	insert text at start of sentence	Insert
j	Move cursor down a line	Normal
J	Join next line to end of current	Normal
k	Move cursor up a line	Normal
K	spacemacs/evil-smart-doc-lookup	Normal
l	Move cursor right	Normal
L	Move cursor to bottom of buffer	Normal
m	Create marker (next character is marker name)	Normal
M	Jump to middle of buffer	Normal
n	Next search occurrence	Normal
N	Previous search occurrence	Normal
o	New line below	Insert
O	New line above	Insert
p	Paste (after / below cursor)	Insert
P	Paste (before / above cursor)	Insert
q	Record keyboard macro attached to given character	Normal
Q	undefined	Normal
r	Replace character under cursor	Normal
R	Replace character state	Replace
s	Substitute character	Insert
S	Substitute current line	Insert
t	Find character forward - cursor before character	Normal
T	Find character backward - cursor after character	Normal
u	Undo last change (C-R to redo)	Normal
U	Undefined	Normal
v	Visual select	Visual
V	Visual select sentence	Visual
w	Jump cursor to start of next word	Normal
W	Jump cursor to start of next word	Normal
x	Delete character under cursor	Normal
X	Delete character backwards	Normal
y y	Yank (copy) line	Normal
Y	Yank (copy) line	Normal
z	Menu - code folding / keyboard macros	Normal