I am closing down my old blog on
socketwiz.com and I didn't have much
content over there and this was and article I felt like preserving.
Since I have been using Vim almost exclusively lately I made myself a
cheat sheet to help me remember some stuff. This is certainly not an
exhaustive list, just some things that I don’t know how to do off the
top of my head that I wrote down and ended up getting a little carried
away. Just thought I would share:
Motions
| motion | description |
|---|
| h | Count characters left |
| l | Count characters right |
| ^ | To the first character of the line. |
| $ | To the last character of the line. |
| f | To the counth character occurrence to the right. F to the counth character occurrence to the left. |
| t | To 1 character just before the counth character occurrence to the right. |
| T | To 1 character just before the counth character occurrence to the left. |
| w | Count words forward. |
| W | Count words forward (different definition for what a word is, includes special characters and such.) |
| e | Count forward to the end of word. |
| b | Count words backward. |
| trigger | effect |
|---|
| c{motion} | Change |
| d{motion} | Delete |
| y{motion} | Yank into register |
| g~{motion} | Toggle case |
| gu{motion} | Make lowercase |
| gU{motion} | Make uppercase |
| >{motion} | Shift right |
| <g{motion} | Shift left |
| ={motion} | Auto-indent |
Buffer management
| command | description |
|---|
| <C-^> or | Switch to the buffer you just left. |
Split windows
| command | description |
|---|
| s or :sp[lit] | Split file horizontally. |
| v or :vsp[lit] | Split file vertically. |
| w | Cycle between open windows. |
| h | Focus the window to the left. |
| j | Focus the window below. |
| k | Focus the window above. |
| l | Focus the window to the right. |
| :cl[ose] c | Close the active window. |
| :on[ly] o | Keep only the active window, closing all others. |
Spelling
| command | description |
|---|
| :setlocal spell | Enable spell checker |
| ]s | Jump to next spelling error. |
| [s | Jump to previous spelling error. |
| z= | Suggest corrections for current word. |
| zg | Add the current word to spell file. |
| zw | Remove the current word from spell file. |
Code folding
| command | description |
|---|
| zf{motion} | Folds code when "foldmethod" set to manual or "marker". |
| za | Toggle fold at cursor. |
| zo | Opens fold at cursor. |
| zc | Close fold at cursor. |
| zR | Open all. |
| zM | Close all. |
Search and replace
| command | description |
|---|
| :args **/*.txt | Multi-file Step 1) populate the argument list with the files you want to search. |
| :argdo %s/search/replace/gc | Mult-file Step 2) replace all occurrences of search with replace but prompt before doing so. |
| * | Search for the word under the cursor. |
Jumps
| command | description |
|---|
| :jumps | Display the jump list. |
| Jump backwards through the jump list. |
| Jump forwards through the jump list. |
| :changes | Display the change list. |
| g; | Jump backwards through the changes list. |
| g, | Jump forwards through the changes list. |
| gf | jump to the file name under the cursor. |
Marks
| command | description |
|---|
| :marks | Display the marks list. |
| m | Set a file bookmark. |
| m | Set a buffer bookmark. |
| ' | Jump to the mark. |
| '' | Jump to the line in the current buffer where jumped from. |
| :delmarks | Delete specified mark. |
| :delmarks a-d | Delete marks a through d |
| :delmarks a,b,x,y | Delete only marks a,b,x and y. |
| :delmarks! | Delete all lower case marks. |
Registers
| command | description |
|---|
| :registers | Display the register list. |
| "{motion} | Overwrite or use contents of register. |
| "{motion} | Append or use contents of register. |
| 0 | Populated with last yanked text. |
Macros
| command | description |
|---|
| q{register} | Start recording and store it in the specified register. |
| q | Stop recording. |
| {count}@{register} | Execute specified macro count times. |
Sessions
| command | description |
|---|
| :mksession /path/to/session.vim | A Session keeps the Views for all windows, plus the global settings. |
| :source /path/to/session.vim | Open a session from within Vim. |
| vim -S /path/to/session.vim | Start Vim with a session. |
Quickfix window
| command | description |
|---|
| :copen | Open the quickfix window. |
| :ccl | Close it. |
| :cw | Open it if there are "errors", close it otherwise (some people prefer this). |
| :cn | Go to the next error in the window. |
| :cnf | Go to the first error in the next file. |
| :cc{num} | Go to the error by number. |
Navigation
| key | move to |
|---|
| % | End of construct |
| [[ | Backwards to the beginning of the current function. |
| ][ | Forwards to the beginning of the current function. |
| ]} | Beginning of the current block. |
| [{ | End of the current block. |
| }[ | Beginning of the current comment block. |
| }] | End of the current comment block. |
| gd | First usage of the current variable name. (Mnemonic: go to definition). |
| gD | Go to the first global usage of the current variable name. |
| gg | Beginning of file. |
| G | End of file. |
Help
| key | move to |
|---|
| ~<C-]>~ | follow link |
| ~~ | jump back |
Addon References
ctrlp.vim https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
| command | description |
|---|
| CtrlP | Invoke ctrl-p in file mode. |
| F5 | Purge the cache for the current directory. |
| Cycle between modes. |
| Switch to filename instead of full path. |
| Switch to regex mode. |
| Navigate the result list. |
| .. | To go up the directory tree. |
| : | Excute command against the file. |
| : | Jump to line number. |
Tcomment https://github.com/tomtom/tcomment_vim
| command | description |
|---|
| gc{motion} | Toggle comments (for small comments within one line the &filetype_inline style will be used, if defined). |
| gcc | Toggle comment for the current line. |
| C{motion} | Comment region. |
| Cc | Comment the current line. |
| :TComment. |
| b | :TCommentBlock. |
vim-fugitive https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
| command | description |
|---|
| Gstatus | git status (- to add/reset changes) |
| Gcommit | git commit |
| Gmove | git move |
| Gremove | git rm |
| Ggrep | git grep |
| Glog | git log |
| Gbrowse | open current file on Github |
| Git | run arbitrary git command |
vim-surround https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
| command | description |
|---|
| cs | Change old delimeter to new. |
| ds | Remove delimeters. |
| ysiw | Wrap current word. |
| S | While in visual mode. |
gitgutter https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter
| command | description |
|---|
| [h | Previous hunk |
| ]h | Next hunk |
Miscellaneous
| command | description |
|---|
| v | Enable characterwise Visual mode. |
| Enable linewise Visual mode. |
| Enable blockwise Visual mode. |
| gv | Reselect the last visual selection. |
| o | Go to other end of highlighted text. |
| "+p | Paste from system clipboard. |
| :0,$d | Delete every line in a file. |
| Increment number. |
| Decrement number. |
| vit | Select contents inside of an HTML tag. |
| :map | List all currently define mappings. |
| :verbose map | Display where mapping was defined. |
| g/{pattern}/d | Delete every line matching pattern. |
| v/{pattern}/d | Delete every line not matching pattern. |
| :w !sudo tee % | Save a file with sudo that you opened with proper permissions. |
| bufdo {command} | Execute specified command on every buffer. |
| {trigger}i{container} | Inside some container like brackets, tag, or parenthesis for example. |
| :e | Refresh or reload buffer |
Merge Conflicts
(requires the fugitive plugin)
:Gdiff
Target | Working | Merge
//2 //3
[c and ]c to navigate between conflicts
:diffget //2 or //3
:diffupdate
:only
:wq
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'message'
Build from source
$ cd ~
$ hg clone https://code.google.com/p/vim/
$ hg tags | grep less # find out what latest stable build is
$ hg checkout <latest_stable>
$ cd vim
$ ./configure --with-features=huge \
--enable-rubyinterp \
--enable-pythoninterp \
--enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-cscope --prefix=/usr
$ make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/opt/local/share/vim/vim73
$ make install
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#dtrace
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