Spacemacs cheatsheet

spacemacs-cheatsheet.txt

Useful Spacemacs commands

SPC q q - quit
SPC w / - split window vertically
SPC w - - split window horizontally
SPC w =	- balance split windows
SPC 1   - switch to window 1
SPC 2   - switch to window jkk2
SPC w c - close current window
SPC w d - delete current window
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SPC TAB - switch to previous buffer
SPC b b - switch buffers in helm
SPC b p - previous buffer
SPC b n - next buffer
SPC b d - kill current buffer
SPC b M - move buffer to another window
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SPC f f - find a file in helm
SPC f s - save a file (:w also works)
SPC f r - recent files in helm
SPC f t - open treemacs
SPC f T - 
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SPC p p - open project
SPC p h - helm projectile
SPC p f - find a file in current project
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SPC v   - enter expand-region mode
SPC ; ; - comment/uncomment
SPC h m	- describe the current mode

apps
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SPC a u - undo tree visualize
SPC a d - dired

avy/jumps/imenu
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SPC j j - avy timer (avy-goto-char-timer)
SPC j w - avy word (avy-goto-word-or-subword-1)
SPC j i - Jump to a title, a function definition, a class, etc. with helm

iedit
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SPC s e - iedit word under cursor
SPC v e - expand selection and iedit
    n - navigate forward
    N - navigate backwards
    F - restrict selection to current function
    TAB - toggle selection
    L - restrict selection to the current line
        J - include above
        K - include below
SPC s s - swoop in helm
    J - include above
    K - include below
    
git
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SPC g s - show Magit status view
SPC g f l - show git log for the current file
SPC g b	- open a =magit= blame
SPC g B	- quit =magit= blame
SPC g c	- commit changes
SPC g t	- launch the git time machine


Useful Vim key bindings

movement
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0 - beginning of line
^ - beginning of non-whitespace
$ - end of line
9j - move down 9 lines
w - move forward by word
b - move backward by word
gg - first line
gd - go to defitinition (doesn't work on sml)
G - last line
C-u - up half page
C-d - down half page
C-f - forward one page.
C-b - backward one page.
f/ - move forward to first "/" character
t/ = move forward right before the first "/" character
; - repeat that command again
H - head of the screen
M - middle of the screen
L - last of the screen
} - move forward by paragraph or block
{ - move backwards by paragraph or block
* - search for word under the cursor
    n - search again forward
    N - search again backwards
# - search backwards for word under cursor
/ - search forward
? - search backward
% - find matching brace, paren, etc
ma - mark a line in a file with marker "a"
`a - after moving around, go back to the exact position of marker "a"
'a - after moving around, go back to line of marker "a"
:marks - view all the marks
'' - go to the last place you were
[{ - jump back to the "{" at the beginning of the current code block

editing
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x - delete char under cursor
X - delete char before cursor
A - add to end of line
I - insert at the beginning of the line
dd - delete line
D - delete from cursor to end of line
di' - delete text inside single quotes
yy - copy line
Y - copy from cursor to end of line
cc - change line
C - change from cursor to end of line
cit - change text inside html tag
ci' - change text inside single quotes
ci{ - change text inside curly brackets.
ci... - etc
p - paste after cursor
P = paste before cursor
o - add line below
O - add line above
. = repeat last comment
r - replace character
R - replace. (overwrite) (good for columns of text)
J - join line (cursor can be anywhere on line)
SPC i j - evil insert line below
SPC i k - evil insert line above

Emacs in insert state
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C-f (forward-char) 
C-b (backward-char)
M-f (forward-word)
M-b (backward-word)

visual mode
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v - visual char mode
V - visual line mode
C-v - block visual mode

dired mode
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RET or f Open file or directory
o - Open file in a separate window
^ - Up directory
+ - Create a directory
R - Rename / move
C - Copy
M - Change file/directory mode (unix file/directory permissions)
d - Delete
m - Mark
u - Unmark / undelete
x - 'Expunge' -- i.e. actually delete files/directories marked for deletion