Speaking Evilλ︎

Evil is easier to learn if you learn to speak commands as sentences.

First learn some verbs:

c (change), d (delete), g go, v visual (select), y yank (copy)

Then use those verbs with some modifiers (motions)

' mark, { } beginning/end of paragraph, a around, f find (includes character), i inside, s surround, t till (just before a character)

Then learn the text objects you can apply verbs and modifiers too

b block/parentheses, p paragraph, s sentence t tag - html/xml, w word

Examples of speaking Evilλ︎

Practice speaking evil with these examples

Keybinding	Description
`c i s`	change inside current sentence (change the whole sentence)
`c i "`	change inside double quotes
`c f )`	change from cursor to next `)` character
`c s ' "`	change by the surrounding single quotes with double quotes
`c t X`	change till the character `X` (not including `X`)
`c /foo`	change until the first search result of ‘foo’
`d d`	delete current line
`d i w`	delete inside the current word (delete word)
`v t SPC`	visual select till the next `Space` character
`v s ]`	visually select and surround with `[]` without spaces
`v s [`	as above with `[ ]` with spaces between parens and content
`g v`	go to last visual selection (select last visual selection)
`v a p`	visually select around current paragraph
`SPC v s "`	visually select current work and surround with `""`
`v i w s "`	visually select, insert around current word, and surround with quotes
`y y`	yank (copy) current line
`y w`	yank (copy) current word
`y @ a`	yank (copy) to mark `a` (`m a` creates a mark called `a`)

Evil Reference and Tips