vim.essential.md

essential vim

Personal most used commands in vim (VSCode, Atom, ... any editor really)

# motion.txt

y c d ... yank / change / delete
v V ... visual mode character-wise/Line-wise
< > ... indent and outdent

/ ? ... search forward or backwards,
        eg "/word" => go to "word"
n   ... next result
f F ... move forward/back in line to char X,
        eg "fX" move to next "X" in line
t T ... move forward/back in line until just before char X,
        eg "t " move to just before the next space

## text selection

i a ... inner and outer

w ... word (a-z0-9_), eg "Hello"
W ... word-like, e.g. "Hi1_2!"
s ... sentence, anything ending on ".!?"
p ... paragraph
[]<>"'` ... bracket/angle/quote blocks
()b ... round blocks ()
{}B ... curly blocks {} 
t ... tag block, e.g. "<p>...</p>"

## text motion

w W ... next word/Word
e E ... next word/Word end
b B ... back word/Word
ge gE ... back word/Word end
( ) ... next/prev sentence
{ } ... next/prev paragraph
]] ][ ... next section (or {/} in first col)
[[ [] ... prev section (or {/} in first col)

# vim.surround

edit surrounding brackets like '"`(){}[]<>

## insert-mode

Action s Selector Brackets
  Action ... [ycd]
  s ... for surround
  Selector ...
    iw ... inner word
    [({<"'` ... for all types of surrounding things
    s ... for the entire line
  Brackets ... 
    [({ ... for bracket + spaces when appropriate
    <...> ... for full tag, e.g. `ysiw<p>` does `hello` => `<p>hello</p>`
    ])}>"'` ... for bracket only
  
## visual-mode

S Brackets ... surround selected text with brackets
  eg select something and `S"` to surround it with quotes