vim-tips.md

VIM Tips and Tricks

• vim cheatsheet

Keyboard shortcuts

• gist - keyboard shortcuts
• vim motion diagrams
• in Neovim, type :Tutor for some common VIM motions

IntelliJ Idea VIM Plugin - https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164-ideavim (documentation)

Bookmarks

• mark* locations

  • ma -- set the mark a at the current position
  • `a -- jump to mark a
  • :marks -- show bookmarks

• search

  • f+<char> - jump to a character on the line
    • ; - after using f, this will jump to next match, , go back
  • t+<char> - jump to character before
  • F+<char> - jump backwards to character

• yank and paste

  • yy -- yank current line
  • yf<char> -- yank to character (including character)
  • yt<char> -- yank to character (excluding character)
  • p -- paste after cursor
  • P -- paste before cursor

• scroll*

  • zt -- scroll current line to top of screen
  • z. -- scroll current line to middle of screen
  • zb -- scroll current line to bottom of screen

• goto

  • G - jump to bottom of file
  • gg - jump to top of file

.vimrc files

• http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Example_vimrc
• http://spf13.com/post/perfect-vimrc-vim-config-file
• view vimrc file

vim tricks

• for a case insensitive search use the \c escape sequence

    /\ccopyright
  

• delete empty lines from selected text

  • after selecting text in visual mode, type :g/^$/d