vim Tips
10 Jan 2018
Getting the most out of vim is really about committing commonly used key stokes/patterns into muscle memory. Once you have the basics of these movements, your text editing experience becomes a lot more optimised and efficient.
This blog post is just an index of useful keystrokes that I use.
Misc. stuff
| Key |
Description |
g q |
Format selection to 80 columnns |
g ? |
Format selection to rot 13 |
. |
Repeat the last action |
Macros
| Key |
Description |
q <reg> |
Record a macro into a register |
q |
Stop recording macro |
@ <reg> |
Execute macro stored in register |
Adding text
| Key |
Description |
i |
Insert at cursor |
I |
Insert at start of line |
a |
Append after cursor |
A |
Append at end of line |
o |
Open a new line below |
O |
Open a new line above |
Buffer management
| Key |
Description |
^W ^O |
Back to one window |
:on |
Back to one window |
:bd |
Delete buffer |
:bp |
Previous buffer |
:bn |
Next buffer |
:buffers |
List buffers |
:b |
Show current buffer name |
:b<n> |
Navigate to buffer N |
Navigation
| Key |
Description |
h j k l |
Movement |
w W |
Next word |
b B |
Back word |
e E |
Next word (to the end) |
ge gE |
Back word (to the end) |
0 |
Beginning of line |
^ |
Non whitespace |
$ |
End of line |
G |
Bottom of file |
gg |
Top of file |
{ |
Paragraph above |
} |
Paragraph below |
^D |
Page down |
^U |
Page up |
Split management
| Key |
Description |
^W S |
Create a split |
^W V |
Create a vertical split |
^W h j k l |
Navigate around splits |
NERDTree
| Key |
Description |
o |
Open in previous window |
g o |
Preview |
t |
Open in new tab |
T |
Open in tab silently |
i |
Open split |
g i |
Preview split |
s |
Open VSplit |
g s |
Preview Split |