Vim Tips, Shortcuts and Plugins

VimTips.md

Based in my .vimrc

Basic movements:

• h Move left
• j Move down
• k Move up
• l Move right
• $ Move to end of line
• 0 Move to beginning of line (including whitespace)
• ^ Move to first character on lineg
• gg Move to first line of file
• G Move to last line of file

Smart movements:

• w Move forward to next word, with cursor on first character (use W to jump by whitespace only)
• b Move backward to next word, with cursor on first character (use B to jump by whitespace only)
• e Move forward to next word, with cursor on last character (use E to jump by whitespace only)
• ge Move backwards to next word, with cursor on last character (use gE to jump by whitespace only)
• ( Move to beginning of previous sentence. Use ) to go to next sentence
• { Move to beginning of previous paragraph. Use } to go to next paragraph
• + Move forward to the first character on the next line
• - Move backwards to the first character on the previous line
• * and # search for the word under the cursor forward/backward.
• % jump to the matching { .. } or ( .. ), etc..
• '. jump back to last edited line.
• g; jump back to last edited position.

Quick editing commands:

• I insert at the begin.
• A append to end.
• o / O open a new line after/before the current.
• v / V / Ctrl+V visual mode (to select text!)
• Shift+R replace text
• C change remaining part of line.

Delete:

• dm Delete in direction of movement m. For m, you can also use w, b, or any other variation
• dd Delete entire current line
• D Delete until end of line

Delete a Word:

• daw delete the around the word
• diw delete the in word
• caw delete the around the word and put you in insert mode

Select a Text:

• v% if the cursor is on the starting/ending parenthesis
• vib if the cursor is inside the parenthesis block
• vi" for double quotes
• vi' for single quotes
• viB select a Block
• vi{ selecte inner {
• ggVG Ctrl+A

Copy and Paste & Yank:

• d Cut
• dd Cut Line
• y Yank (copy) highlighted text
• yy Yank current line
• p Put (paste) yanked text below current line
• P Put yanked text above current line
• J Join current line with the next line. Use gJ to exclude join-position space

Miscellaneous:

• u Undo
• U Undo all changes on current line
• <Ctrl>+r Redo
• <F3> Clear All Search Highlights
• <F4> Toggle Line Numbers
• \r Refresh File Contents
• <F10> Smart Save
• \rs Remove spaces

Motion

• "dl" delete character (alias: "x") |dl|
• "diw" delete inner word diw
• "daw" delete a word daw
• "diW" delete inner WORD (see |WORD|) diW
• "daW" delete a WORD (see |WORD|) daW
• "dd" delete one line |dd|
• "dis" delete inner sentence dis
• "das" delete a sentence das
• "dib" delete inner '(' ')' block dib
• "dab" delete a '(' ')' block dab
• "dip" delete inner paragraph dip
• "dap" delete a paragraph dap
• "diB" delete inner '{' '}' block diB
• "daB" delete a '{' '}' block daB

Plugins Tips:

File Navigation/Search

unite.vim

• <Ctrl>-p Instant File Search per name
• <space>f File Search per content
• <space>y Yank Search
• <space>s Buffer Search

vimshell.vim

• \sh Open a Shell

vimfiler.vim

• <F7> Open VimFiler

Bufexplorer

• <F6> Open the Bufexplorer

Tagbar

• <F8> Open TagBar

Emmet

• <C-E>, Trigger Emmet Snippet

Utils

Surround

Gundo

fugitive

abolish

tcomment_vim

• <Ctrl>-c Toggle comment line

emmet-vim

• <Ctrl>-y, Trigger to snippet

vim-easymotion

• \s(key search)(key target) Findo character

vim-multiple-cursors

• <Ctrl>-n Select next Ocurrence
• <Ctrl>-p Clear current virual cursor and go back to the previous
• <Ctrl>-x Skip next Ocurrence