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My Curated 𝑽im Command Collection

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"Entire swaths of the Salinas Valley have been upended with these Vim bindings.

I move through my manuscript like a nimble fruit picker through an orchard in full bloom.

Where once there were disorderly rows of dialogue and description, now lies carefully tended prose, rooted by deft keystrokes.

The ':w' command rings out like a foreman's whistle, saving the day's toil.

And lo, the great migration of paragraphs, from chapter to chapter, leaves this writer as dizzy as a field hand after a long day's harvest."

-John Steinbeck

Recording and Repeating Commands ​

  • Record a sequence: q n {command sequence} q
  • Repeat a sequence: @ n

Basic Text Modification ​

  • Repeat last change: .
  • Change inner word: ciw (then type new word)
  • Increment number: Ctrl a
  • Decrement number: Ctrl x
  • Change case of character under cursor: ~
  • Open file from a path name: gf
  • Move to a character: f {character}
  • Jump between matching HTML tags: %

Windows and Splits ​

  • Split window horizontally: :vs or :vsp {filename}
  • Split window vertically: Ctrl w v or :vs {filename}
  • Resize windows to be equal: Ctrl w =
  • Move right between panes: Ctrl w l
  • Move left between panes: Ctrl w h
  • Toggle between panes: Ctrl w w
  • Resize horizontally: :res {number}
  • Resize vertically: :vertical resize {number}

Editing and Surrounding Text ​

  • Surround word with quotes or tags: c i w "" Esc p
  • Delete surrounding single quotes (w/ vim-surround plugin): d s '
  • Change surrounding character (w/ vim-surround plugin): c s {current} {new}

Clipboard Operations ​

  • Copy to system clipboard: "*y
  • Paste from system clipboard: "*p

Search and Replace ​

  • Replace in current line: :s/{searchTerm}/{replacement}/g
  • Replace in entire document: :%s/{searchTerm}/{replacement}/g
  • Replace within a visually selected block: :s/{currentWord}/{newWord}/g

File Browsing with Netrw ​

  • Open netrw window: :Ex
  • Horizontal split netrw: :Sex
  • Vertical split netrw: :Vex
  • Create a new directory in netrw: d
  • Create a new file in netrw directory: %
  • Open vertical split file preview: p (when file is highlighted)

Folding (Collapsing) Code ​

  • New fold: zfat
  • Toggle an existing fold: za
  • Open all folds in document: zR
  • Close all folds in document: zM

Marks and Jumps ​

  • Set a mark: m {a-z}
  • Jump to a mark: ' {a-z} or `` {a-z}`
  • Jump to the previous location: ''

Running Commands and Scripts ​

  • Run current JS script in Node: :w !node %
  • Search within files with greplike command: :Rg {searchTerm}

Colorschemes ​

  • Change colorscheme: :colo {colorscheme}
  • Install a colorscheme: (copy colorscheme vim file into ~/.vim/colors)
  • Enable true colors in terminal: set termguicolors (in .vimrc)

Emmet Commands ​

  • Self-closing tags for React: customtag/ (converts to <customtag />)

Macros ​

  • Record a macro: q {register} {commands} q
  • Playback a macro: @ {register}

Miscellaneous ​

  • Check spelling: z=
  • Select text inside surrounding character: v i {character}
  • Yank (copy) text inside surrounding character: y i {character}
  • Select a whole word: v i w
  • Add line above current: O
  • Add line below current: o
  • Join line below with current line: J
  • Set netrw to directory below cursor: gn
  • Move cursor vertically by half window height: Ctrl + u / Ctrl + d