Learn these. It's tricky at first but it improves productivity by a lot.
- j: up
- k: down
- h: left
- l: right
- gg: top of file
- G: bottom of file
- w: next word
- e: end of word
- b: back word
- n: next search
- N: prev search
- t: up to
- T: back to
- i: insert mode (at current character)
- I: insert mode (at beginning of line)
- a: insert mode (1 after current character)
- A: insert mode (at end of line)
- o: insert mode (new line under)
- O: insert mode (new line above)
- u: undo
- ctrl-r: redo
- v: select mode
- V: line select mode
- ctrl-v: block select mode
- y: yank selection (copy)
- Y: yank line
- x: delete
- d: delete (prefix)
- d: delete and copy current line
- $: delete and copy do end of line
set nocompatible " Use Vim settings rather than Vi settings. Should have this first because it changes a lot of options
set mouse=a " It is OK to use the mouse.....but try not to.
set bg=dark " Set to having dark bg (if you have a dark bg)
set t_Co=256 " Force 256 colors
colorscheme xoria256 " My favorite as of now
set shell=/bin/bash " If using a non sh-compatible shell. Like fish
filetype plugin indent on " Set file specific settings
set ai " Sets autoindent on
set tabstop=4 " Sets how many columns a tab is
set softtabstop=4 " Sets how many columns to insert when pusing tab
set shiftwidth=4 " Sets how many columns to indent with << and >> and cindent
set expandtab " Makes spaces when pusing tab
set nu " Shows numbers in left margin
set hls " Highlights all matching words when searching
set incsearch " Search as you type
set ruler " Always show cursor position
set showcmd " Show command info in statusline like visual selection ranges
set laststatus=2 " Always show statusline
set noesckeys " Remove delay when pushing escape in insert mode although makes things like the delete key not work
set scrolloff=1 " Always show one line in advance when scrolling
set splitright " When vsplitting, open new pane to right
set splitbelow " When hsplitting, open new pane below
set autochdir " Automatically changes working dir to dir of file when opened
set undofile " Enables undo file which stores all history for every file
set undodir=~/.vim/undo " Place to store undofiles
set directory=~/.vim/swap " Place to store swapfiles
set backupdir=~/.vim/backup " Place to store backupfiles
set wildmenu " Command line completion
set wildmode=full " Shows full list to tab through
set iskeyword-=_ " Removes _ from being a keyword so commands like cw treat it as end of word
" Turns on spell check. Use z=
set invspell spelllang=en_us
" Keybindings
map <ScrollWheelUp> <C-Y> " Sets scrolling to do one line at a time
map <ScrollWheelDown> <C-E> " May only be useful on trackpads
nnoremap "" :w<CR> " Sets `""` in normal mode to save file (you could change to your own shortcut)
nnoremap ^_ I// <esc>j " Sets both ctrl-_ and ctrl-/ to put two slashes at beginning of line for commenting and goes to next line. Note that the ^ is an escape character not an actual ^. To insert this do ctrl-v ctrl-/.
" Jump back to last known cursor position when opening a file again
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "normal! g`\"" |
\ endif
If you haven't noticed by now many configuration options can be shortcut with
using only part of the word or using letters of it like set number;set nu or
colorscheme xoria;colo xoria or even set expandtab;set et.
You can also prefix options with no to turn them off like set nopaste and
appending a ? after an option will display what it is set to