My VIM stuff

vim-cheatsheet.md

Vim grammar

Reload configuration after change: :so $MYVIMRC

navigate:

• hjkl: <v^>
• w: advance to beginning of next word
• b: rewind to beginning of next word
• e: advance to end of next word
• Ctrl-o: exit INSERT mode for one and only one command, then get back at it
• gd: Go to Definition
• gg: Go to the first line
• G: Go to the last line
• ma: set mark a
• 'a: go to mark a
• ^ or _ to go to the first non-whitespace character of a line
• $ to go to the last non-whitespace character of a line
• f$c to go to the next $c of the line (for example f? to move the curstor to the next ?)
• F$c to go to the previous $c of the line (for example f? to move the curstor to the previous ?)

verbs:

• v: visual,
• c: change,
• d: delete,
• s: delete and switch to insert mode,
• x: delete character,
• y: yank/copy.
• p: put (P: put without yanking)
• q: format (e.g. restrict to 80 column)

modifiers:

• i: inside,
• a: around,
• t: till..finds a character,
• f: find..like till except including the char,
• /: search..find a string/regex

objects:

• w: word,
• s: sentence,
• p: paragraph,
• b: block/parentheses,
• t: tag (works for html/xml).

Sentences:

• diw - delete the current word
• ciw - change current word
• cc or S - change line
• cis - change current sentence
• ci” - change a string inside quotes
• c/foo - change until next occurrence of ‘foo’
• ctX - change everything from here to the letter X
• vap - visually select this paragraph
• d$ - cut from here to the end of line
• ya( - yank around the enclosing parenthesis
• 29j - Go down 29 times
• db - delete word backward
• Vp - Select line and replace by default register
• V"0p - Select line and replace by the previous register (the one you paste no the one you replaced before)
• yiw - yank word
• viwp - select whole word and paste (to replace a word with default register)
• viwP - select whole word and paste (to replace a word with default register without modifying the default register)

Remove trailing whitespace

:%s/\s\+$//g

Selection

word

viw

from space to space:

viW

paragraph

vip

Substitution

in the whole buffer:

:%s/foo/bar/g

with confirmation (add c)

:%s/foo/bar/gc

with confirmation starting at cursor to the end of the file

:.,$s/foo/bar/gc

in selection:

:'<,'>s/foo/bar/g

Search

case insensitive: use \c anywhere in the search term

/cop\cyright

Shortcut

• * - Forward search word under cursor
• # - Backward search word under cursor
• . - Repeat the last action (verb)
• A-f - CoC Autofix

Clipboard

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