Vim Commands

Vim motions and keyboard shortcuts that make sense to me. Here is a list of motions and shortcuts that make sense to me. It's not meant to be an all-encompassing list of everything you can do, but a list of the ones that click for me.

Normal mode

File actions

Edit

  • a - add

  • i - insert

  • A - start editing at the beginning of the line

  • I - start editing at the end of the line

  • . - redo the last command

  • ciw - Change Inner Word

Folding code

  • zR - Open all

  • zM - Collapse all

  • zo - Open

  • zO - Open all from the current location

  • zc - Close

  • zC - Close all from the current location

  • za - Toggle current fold

  • zi - Toggle code folding

Navigation

  • Left, down, up, right h j k l

  • Start of line 0 / End of line $

  • f @- move cursor to next occurrance of @, i.e., f move to next

  • t @ - move cursor to character before next @.

  • Next word w / WORD W

  • Previous word b / WORD B

  • End of next word e / WORD E

  • Previous blank line { / Next blank line }

  • Previous sentence ( / Next sentence )

  • Move cursor to first line of document gg

  • Move cursor to last line of document G

  • Move cursor to line # - #G

  • Go # lines down - #j / Go # lines up - #k

  • Move up a screen Ctrl u

  • Move down a screen Ctrl d

  • Go to correct indentation level S

Quit

  • ZZ

Auto-complete

  • Ctrl P/N

Selection

  • Select current word - *

Buffers

  • :ls - List buffers

  • :bn - Next buffer

  • :bp - Previous buffer

  • :bw - Close buffer

  • :bd# - Close buffer #

Splits

  • :sp - split horizontally

  • :vs - split vertically

  • ZQ - close split

Macros

Recordings

  1. Record: q a (keystrokes) q

  2. Play: @ a

  3. Play multiple (15) times: 15@a

Visual mode

Selection

Select a paragraph

  • Vap - select around the current paragraph

  • Vip - select inside the current paragraph

Select Word

  • viw and viW

Select tag

  • vit - select inside tag

Select block

  • v% - select from current position to next matching character

Select unitl next instance

  • v/foo - select from your current position to the next instance of foo, and n expands to the next instance.

Copying

Copy a word and replace another word

  • To copy a word under the cursor, press bvey

  • To replace the word under the cursor, press bvep

Insert mode

  • Ctrl o - temporarily enter Normal mode

  • Ctrl w - delete the word to the left of the cursor

  • Ctrl u - delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line

Plugins

nvim-surround

Surround text with a character or a tag.

  • add with ys{motion}{char}

  • delete with ds{char}

  • change with cs{target}{replacement}

  • ysiw) – add "(" and ")" around word

  • ys$t - adds a tag around the text from cursor to the end of the line

  • ds" - delete " around text

  • dst - delete tag around text

  • cs'" - change quotes from ' to "

// Comment.nvim

Comment your code in style.

Normal mode

  • gcc - Toggles the current line using linewise comment

  • gbc - Toggles the current line using blockwise comment

Visual mode

  • gc - Toggles the region using linewise comment

  • gb - Toggles the region using blockwise comment