Personal NVIM Cheatsheet

This is my personal cheatsheet that I'm building because of my (most-likely) personal hatred towards VIM's community. Thank you vim community for the toxic, unwelcoming, unopenmindedness and egotistical behavior towards newcomers.

I just want to code using a lightweight editor that's matured enough for there to be plugins and not obsess towards the thing that I already can do with VScode but somehow "more optimized" and stuff like pErSoNaLiZeD DeVeLoPmEnT EnViRoNmEnT.

kickstart.nvim lacks wiki / documentation (Issue #3) while targetting newcomers to begin your Neovim journey.

Props to Helix editor to actually have a way better cheatsheet / docs for newcomers but sadly no plugins support yet :(

WARNING: Most commands are case sensitive and modifier sensitive!

w means pressing W key

W means pressing SHIFT and W together (Capitalization!)

^ means pressing CTRL ignoring capitalization; ^W means CTRL + w WITHOUT SHIFT

Basics

Cursor movement: Arrow keys or hjkl, preferrably maximalize hjkl

h     l
left  right

j     k
down  up

w - jump to next word before punctuation
W - jump to next word
b - jump to previous word before punctuation
B - jump to previous word

gg - jump to start / beginning of file
G - jump to end of file (eof)

On VISUAL (v) or VISUAL-LINE V mode

> - indent to the right
< - indent to the left

Find / Fuzzy / Regex / Regular Expression

/ - Start finding stuff with Regex, end with Enter
n - Find next result
N - Find previous result

Replace - Highlight things that want to be replaced using Visual mode then

:s/<findterm>/<replaceterm>

Windows

^W then movement keys to focus / highlight different window
:sp or ^W s to open new window below (split horizontally)
:vsplit or ^W v to open new window to the right (split vertically)

Note, you can prefix these with numbers

^W > - enlarges window size
^W < - make window size smaller
??? - minimize window (idt its even possible)

File / Word Finder (Telescope)

:Telescope find_files = <Space> sf Search files :Telescope = <Space> sg Search grep

Embedded terminal

TBH just spawn a new tab / new window on your native terminal. Its not worth it.

Make a new window, run :terminal then enter Insert mode. To make the terminal stop eating your input, switch to another window or CTRL + \ CTRL + N

LSP - Intellisense, Language Server, etc

<SPACE>rn - Rename Symbol, VSCode's F2 (vim.lsp.buf.rename)
<SPACE>ca - Code Action, VSCode's CTRL + . (vim.lsp.buf.code_action)
<SPACE>e - Show errors / warning / diagnostics / codelens pop up on cursor (vim.diagnostic.open_float)
<SPACE>q - List all errors / diagnostic / warning / codelens on bottom | VSCode's Problems panel (vim.diagnostic.setloclist)
gd - Go to Definition (vim.lsp.buf.definition)
gr - Go to References (require('telescope.builtin').lsp_references)
K - Show hover information (vim.lsp.buf.hover)
gcc - Go Comment Line
gcb - Go Comment Block - Try this if you're on React / Astro

nvim-tree - File tree sidebar

Sidebar would need to be focused. If accidentally closed, run :NvimTreeOpen

g? - Toggle help
a - Create new file
- Append an extra / to create a directory