vim, cheatsheet

vim_cheat_sheet.md

Vim CHEAT SHEET

Folding

Keystrokes	Description
zc	Close a fold
zo	Open a fold
za	Toggle a fold
zR	Open all folds

Insert mode

Keystrokes	Description
<C-h>	backspace by character
<C-w>	backspace by word
<C-u>	backspace to beginning
<C-o>	switch to insert normal mode
<C-r>=	insert mode calculation

Copy & Paste

Keystrokes	Description
"0p or "0P	last yank is save to this register, use together with put

Search

Keystrokes	Description
;	forward repeat last search
,	backward repeat last search

Spell check

Keystrokes	Description
set spell	turn on spell check
[s	jump to next spell check error
]s	jump to previous spell check error
z=	bring up suggestions
{count}z=	take automatically the first suggestion
zg	add word to spell file
zw	add word to spell file as a bad word

Visual mode

Keystrokes	Description
gv	reselect
<C-g>	toggle between visual and select mode
o	toggle the open end of the visual selection

Navigation

Keystrokes	Description
zz	bring the cursor to vertical middle of screen
zt	bring the cursor to vertical top of screen
zb	bring the cursor to vertical bottom of screen
<C-u>	scroll up Half screen
<C-b>	scroll up Full screen
<C-d>	scroll down Half screen
<C-f>	scroll down Full screen

custom short-hand

Keystrokes	Description
,w	save the current file
<C-j>	move current line down (require "tpope/vim-unimpaired")
<C-k>	move current line up (require "tpope/vim-unimpaired")
,l	expend current window with 10 columns
,s	toggle spell checking

Indentation

Keystrokes	Description
>>	indent current line/selection one level right
<<	indent current line/selection one level left
>2>	indent current line/selection 2 level right
<C-t>	Insert Mode indent current line one level right
<C-d>	Insert Mode indent current line one level left

[NERDTree] (https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree "NerdTree on Github")

Keystrokes	Description
m	open menu
o	open a file at side

Setting current folder

Keystrokes	Description
:cd	set current directory to user directory
:cd path\to\folder	set current directory to path\to\folder
:cd %:h	set cuurent directory to the folder containing current file
'%' -> current file name including path, ':' modifier, 'h' is head

Others

Keystrokes	Description
fg	angehalten
J	Join line

under Mac copy & paste

vim wiki

READ ME FIRST

• leader key is remapped to , by let mapleader = ","