📝 Vi editor tips
Moving
w move to beginning of next word
b move to previous beginning of word
e move to end of word
ge move to previous end of word
gg move to first line
G move to last line
12gg or 12G moves to line 12
0 move to beginning of line
$ move to end of line
_ 🔥 move to first non-blank character of the line
g_ move to last non-blank character of the line
g; 🔥 jump to the place of last edit. can be quite helpful while debugging or editing files.
% move to the matching part of a (, [ or {
[{ move to the first enclosure of { above
Ctrl-D 🔥 move half-page down
Ctrl-U 🔥 move half-page up
Ctrl-B page up
Ctrl-F page down
Ctrl-O 🔥 jump to last (older) cursor position
Ctrl-I 🔥 jump to next cursor position (after Ctrl-O)
Ctrl-Y move view pane up
Ctrl-E move view pane down
n 🔥 next matching search pattern
N previous matching search pattern
* 🔥 next whole word under cursor
# previous whole word under cursor
g* next matching search (not whole word) pattern under cursor
g# previous matching search (not whole word) pattern under cursor
gd 🔥 go to definition/first occurrence of the word under cursor
fX fall onto to next 'X', in the same line (X is any character)
FX fall to previous 'X' (f and F put the cursor on X)
tX til next 'X' (similar to above, but cursor is before X)
TX til previous 'X' (cursor is behind X)
J join, move next line below to the end of current line (but adds a space)
Jx join like above, and remove the added space.
Editing
i, a, A, o, O into insert mode in different locations
r, R replace char or word
ci" change inside quotes
di" delete inside quotes
ca" change around quotes, include quotes
da" delete around quotes
d0 delete till be beginning of current line
d$, D delete till the end of current line
u undo
Ctrl-r redo
>> indent the current line
>iB, >i} indent the current Block
,, (2 comma) 🔧 customized to add a ; at the end of the line
inoremap <leader>, <C-o>A;<ESC>
innoremap <leader>, A;<ESC>
Folding
zo Open one fold under the cursor.
zO Open folds, recursively.
zc Close one fold under the cursor.
zC Close folds, recursively.
zM Close all folds: set 'foldlevel' to 0. 'foldenable' will be set.
zR Open all folds. This sets 'foldlevel' to highest fold level.
For ideavim, set up as such:
nnoremap zC :action CollapseRegionRecursively<CR>
nnoremap zO :action ExpandRegionRecursively<CR>
Options
:noh turn off highlight
:set hls highlight all matching phrases
:set ic set ignore case for search
:set noic set not ignore case again
:set invic use inv to invert the option - f.g. ic here
Search stuff
/ find pattern
n go to next found pattern
:! grep -rin -A2 -B2 --color --include=\*.md . -e 'yank'
use a grep command to show what md files from
current directory contains word 'yank' or 'Yank'
r: recursive, n: show line number, i: ignore case
Replace/Substitue stuff
To substitute new for the first old in a line type
~~~ cmd
:s/old/new
~~~
To substitute new for all 'old's on a line type
~~~ cmd
:s/old/new/g
~~~
To substitute phrases between two line #'s type
~~~ cmd
:#,#s/old/new/g
~~~
To substitute all occurrences in the file type
~~~ cmd
:%s/old/new/g
~~~
To ask for confirmation each time add 'c'
~~~ cmd
:%s/old/new/gc
~~~
Copy Paste stuff
How to select a word, copy it and replace another word.
yiw Yank inner word (copy word under cursor, say "first").
... Move the cursor to another word (say "second").
viwp Select "second", then replace it with "first".
... Move the cursor to another word (say "third").
viw"0p Select "third", then replace it with "first".
🔥 Copy a word and paste it over other words:
yiw Yank inner word (copy word under cursor, say "first").
... Move the cursor to another word (say "second").
ciw Ctrl-R 0 Esc 🔥Change "second", replacing it with "first".
... Move the cursor to another word (say "third").
. Repeat the operation (change word and replace it with "first").
... Move the cursor to another word and press . to repeat the change.
Copy text in quotes, and paste it over other quoted text:
yi" Yank inner text (text containing cursor which is in quotes).
... Move the cursor to other quoted text.
ci" Ctrl-R 0 Esc 🔥Change the quoted text, replacing it with the copied text.
... Move the cursor to more quoted text.
. Repeat the operation (change the quoted text and replace it with the copy).
... Move the cursor to more quoted text and press . to repeat the change.
Copy a line and paste it over other lines:
yy Yank current line (say "first line").
... Move the cursor to another line (say "second line").
Vp Select "second line", then replace it with "first line".
... Move the cursor to another line (say "third line").
V"0p Select "third line", then replace it with "first line".
Deleting, changing and yanking text copies the affected text to the unnamed register (""). Yanking text also copies the text to register 0 ("0). So the command yiw copies the current word to "" and to "0.
yl /vy/xu Yank current character. Composing the yank operation with the so often used "one character to the right" motion
Window and Tab
Ctrl-W s split window horiontally, can be used with ctrlpvim after Ctrl-P to open file
Ctrl-W v split window vertically, can be used with ctrlpvim after Ctrl-P to open file
Ctrl-W l jump to the window on the right
Ctrl-W x switch current window with next one
gt move to the tab after
gT move to the tab before
gt3 move to tab number 3
Group change
Ctrl-V, then move to select, then Shift-<action>, then ESC
Commenting
With plugin:
- Plug 'scrooloose/nerdcommenter'
[count]<leader>cc |NERDCommenterComment| Comment out the current line or text selected in visual mode.
[count]<leader>cn |NERDCommenterNested| Same as cc but forces nesting.
[count]<leader>c<space> |NERDCommenterToggle| Comment Toggle
[count] gcc 🔧 comment toggle, need a special setup, see my mac-settings repo's config files.
For IntelliJ's ideavim plugin, add set commentary in it's config file.
If in IntelliJ with the ideavim plugin, use gcc to comment.
Turn off search highlight
:noh
Spell check with NeoVim
z= give suggestions
zg add it as a good word
zw add it as a wrong word
Plugin NERDTree
,t focus on tree view
Ctrl-t toggle tree view
Ctrl-j 🔧 customized - :NERDTreeFind
,n 🔧 customized - :NERDTreeFind
PlugIn CtrlP to find and open files
F5 refresh files
Ctrl-p open serach
Ctrl-p Ctrl-s/v open in new window
Ctrl-p Ctrl-t open in new tab
,p 🔧 only search in buffered files
# above command is customized via setting:
# nnoremap <leader>p :CtrlPBuffer<CR>
PlugIn VimTest
Plug 'vim-test/vim-test'
https://github.com/vim-test/vim-test
:TestNearest run nearest test
:TestFile run all test in file
:TestSuite run the whole test suite
:TestLast run last test
:TestVisit visit the test file from which you last run your tests
🔧 Customized COC shortcut
Ctrl-l 🔧 reformat file
Ctrl-space give suggestions
gb 🔧 go to definition
gy 🔧 go to type definition
gi 🔧 go to implementation
gr 🔧 references
gp go to previous issue
gå go to next issue
K show documentation
Tmux
Window and Pane
Ctrl-b c create window
Ctrl-b n/p go to next or previous window
Ctrl-b w list all windows
Ctrl-b 0/1.. go to window number 0/1/...
Ctrl-b % split horisontal pane
Ctrl-b " split vertical pane
Ctrl-b o go to next pane
Tmux Session
tmux new -s <name> create new session
Ctrl-b d detach session
Ctrl-b x kill current session
tmux ls list sessions
tmux kill-session -t [name]
tmux rename-session [-t current-name] [new-name]
Ctrl-b $ to rename session while in tmux