Coming from vim

yumete's default keys are helix's: you select first and act second. Under them some vim habits change the wrong text: x selects a line, and dd deletes two characters. The vim keymap puts vim's way of pressing onto yumete's own commands.

Turn it on in the config:

[keys]
preset = "vim"

or type :keymap vim to use it for this session only. :keymap helix goes back, and :keymap on its own says which keymap is in force. Keys you bind in [keys.normal] win over the keymap. See Key remapping.

Operators wait for a motion

d, c, y, > and < are operators, as in vim. After one, the status line lists the motions it can take, Esc lets go, and a key that is not a motion is told so.

Motion	Keys
words	w W b B e E ge gE
in the line	0 ^ $, h l
whole lines	j k G gg + - Enter, and H M L
brackets	%: to the other half, inclusive, looking along the line when the cursor is not on one
paragraphs, sentences	{ }, ( )
find a character	f F t T, and ; , to repeat the last one
text objects	i and a with an object: diw, ci", ya(, dap
the whole line	the operator again: dd yy cc >>, or d_

d, c and y all write to a register, as in vim, so ddp swaps two lines and p after dw puts the word back.

w, b and e go through a Chinese segmenter, so in Chinese they stop at word edges rather than at spaces. See CJK motions. As in vim, w W b B stop on an empty line, and e passes it by.

Case and fill operators

gu, gU and g~ change case and wait for a motion: guw lowers a word, gUU raises the whole line. gUgU, gugu, g~g~ and gqgq are the line too, as in vim.

gq fills lines to 79 columns, as vim's gq does with its factory settings: gqip a paragraph, gqq a line, gq on a visual selection. A blank line ends a paragraph. A > quote marker, and in code a comment leader such as // or #, is written again on each filled line, and a list item's lines hang under its text. A run of Chinese has no spaces to break at, so gq leaves it whole, as vim does. Two lines joined between Chinese characters get no space. A line that opens with the two-square indent (U+3000) is a paragraph of its own: it is never joined to the line before it, and the lines filled after it carry no indent.

v or V and then Esc leaves nothing selected, with the cursor where it stood, as in vim.

Counts

A count can go before the operator, before the motion, or both: 3dw and d3w delete three words, and 2d3w deletes six. 3dd deletes three lines and 2x two characters.

Other keys take a count too. 3p pastes three copies as one piece. 3rx writes x over three characters, and changes nothing when the line has fewer left. 3~ changes the case of three characters.

A count before i, a, I, A, o or O types the text that many times: 5ix then Esc gives five x, and 3o甲 then Esc gives three lines of 甲. One u takes it all back.

Text objects

After an operator, or after v, the object names are vim's: w W s p, the brackets and quotes, and b B for ( and {. yumete adds three:

• u is a clause, up to any punctuation mark: diu.
• m is the nearest pair of any kind: dim.
• k is the Markdown marks around the cursor: dik on **bold**.

A bracket key also covers the full-width and Chinese brackets: di( works inside （）, and di[ inside 「」 and 【】. With the cursor outside any pair, di( and da" reach ahead to the next one, as vim does. The full list is in Match mode.

Surround

vim-surround's keys are built in: ysiw( wraps a word, ds( deletes the pair around the cursor, and cs([ changes (…) to […]. ys takes any motion or object, so ys$" quotes to the end of the line.

Visual mode

v starts a selection, V selects the whole line, and gv selects the last selection again. In visual mode o goes to the other end, d or x deletes, c or s changes, u U ~ change case, and p replaces the selection with the register.

A count before . replaces the count the change was made with: after rx, 3. writes x over three characters, and a bare . after that writes three again.

J, gJ, r, > and < in visual mode return to Normal mode afterwards, as in vim. > and < keep the cursor's column, as nvim's do. . repeats a visual J, > or < on as many lines.

C-v starts blockwise visual. The motions grow a rectangle, and the status line says SEL.

• I and A write before or after the block on every line. I skips a line too short to reach the block, A pads one with spaces, and $A writes at the end of each line. What you type is copied to the other lines on Esc.
• c d y r ~ u U > < J act on the block.
• o and O move to the other corners.
• p puts a block you took back as a block.

. is vim's

Under the vim keymap . repeats the whole last change, as vim's does: a d, a c with what you typed, an r, a paste. ciw then foo then Esc, then w., changes the next word too. Under the helix keymap . repeats only the last insert, as helix's does.

Other keys

Key	Does
x X	cut the character under or before the cursor
s S	change one character, change the whole line
D C Y	delete, change, yank to the end of the line (Y as in Neovim)
r	replace the character; with the input method on, pick a Chinese one. A count writes over that many; r Enter breaks the line, in the file's own line ending
R	overwrite mode until Esc; Backspace gives back what was covered
u C-r U	undo, redo, undo all recent changes on the line
J gJ	join lines; gJ adds no space at all
0 ^ $	start of line, first character, end of line
%	the matching bracket; off a bracket, the partner of the first one further along the line, and d% deletes from the cursor to there
* #	the word under the cursor, forward or back
n N, gn gN	the next or previous match
m a, ' a	set mark a, go back to its line, across files; ` a does the same
N|	go to column N; a Chinese character is two columns wide
H M L	top, middle, bottom of the screen
( )	previous, next sentence
g; g,	older and newer places you changed
gi	insert again where the last Insert stopped
C-o in insert mode	run one Normal command and come back
C-u C-w in insert mode	delete to the start of the line, the word before; each first stops where this Insert began
K	the documentation for the thing under the cursor
q, Q	record a macro (q again stops), play it
ZZ ZQ	save and quit, quit without saving

Under the vim keymap the case and conversion menu moves from ` to g` , since ` jumps to a mark: g`s turns traditional characters into simplified ones.

Line wrapping for h and l

h and l stop at the ends of a line, as in vim. [editor] which_wrap takes vim's whichwrap letters (b h l < > ~); only b, for Backspace, is on by default. :which-wrap hl sets it for this session and :which-wrap off clears it.

What is not there

• There are no named macros: qa…q and @a are not there. There is one macro, the last one recorded; q records it and Q plays it. See Registers.
• The code objects (functions, parameters, tests, HTML elements) have no vim spelling, and neither has vim's tag object it.
• vim-surround's visual S is not there. Use ys with a motion.
• gh and gl do nothing; use 0 and $.
• :sp is :search-project, not a split. Split with C-w s; there is no vertical split. With the window split, :q closes the region you are in, as vim's :q closes a window.
• :set opens the settings panel. It does not take option=value; each option is its own command or config key. See Settings.
• There is no :g and no :normal.

Everything else, the Space menu and the input method included, is the same under both keymaps. See Coming from helix.