The vim-gnupg plugin lets vim edit gpg-encrypted files as if they were unencrypted.

It's probably in your package manager. If not, you'll need to endure the faff of following the instructions.

1. Insert text by pressing i.
2. Stop inserting text by pressing Ctrl+[.
3. Exit with ZZ.
4. Congratulations, you now know vim.

Extras

• Navigation
• Completion
• Search
• Window Splits

Complete the word by searching for the next similar word:

C-n

Complete the word by searching for a previous similar word:

C-p

Complete the full line:

C-x C-l

Put bash in vim mode!

Place the following in your ~/.inputrc:

1set editing-mode vi
2set show-mode-in-prompt on
3set vi-ins-mode-string \1\e[33;32m\2[>]=\1\e[0m\2
4set vi-cmd-mode-string \1\e[33;1m\2[?]=\1\e[0m\2
5
6set keymap vi-insert
7RETURN: "\e\n"

Scroll

C-e

C-y

Jumps

Go through your last jumps:

C-I …

Search for the next and or previous occurrence of the word under your cursor with * and #.

Search and replace the first 'one' found with 'two':

:%s/one/two/

Same, but replace 'one' globally:

:%s/one/two/g

Put quotes around every occurrence of $HOME:

:%s/$HOME/"&"

Same, but add curly brackets around …

Remote Editing

vim scp://user@myserver[:port]//path/to/file.txt