An evolving Vim cheetsheet

vim-cheathsheet.md

Verbs, Nouns & Adverbs

• dap - Delete Around Paragraph
• yib - Yank In Brackets
• yap - Yank Around Paragraph
• das - Delete Around Sentence
• di' - Delete in quotes
• <ii - Shift current block to the left (provided by vim-indent-object)

Find & Search within file

• f<x> - Go to next occurence of character
• dt<x> - Delete up to, but not including, the next occurence of character x
• df<x> - Delete to and including the next occurence of character x
• * - Search for next occurence of word under cursor
• /<word> - Search for word within file; pressing n to go to next occurence of word.
• ?<word> - Search backwards for word within file; pressing n to go to previous occurence of word.

Search and replace within file

• :%s/foo/bar/g - Find all global occurences of foo and replace with bar

Search for files from project root

• :find filename.txt - Find filename from project root, with tab completion.

Buffers

• :b partialFilename - Type fuzzy filename of an open buffer, tab to cycle through possible matches