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An evolving Vim cheetsheet
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Verbs, Nouns & Adverbs

  • dap - Delete Around Paragraph
  • yib - Yank In Brackets
  • yap - Yank Around Paragraph
  • das - Delete Around Sentence
  • di' - Delete in quotes
  • <ii - Shift current block to the left (provided by vim-indent-object)

Find & Search within file

  • f<x> - Go to next occurence of character
  • dt<x> - Delete up to, but not including, the next occurence of character x
  • df<x> - Delete to and including the next occurence of character x
  • * - Search for next occurence of word under cursor
  • /<word> - Search for word within file; pressing n to go to next occurence of word.
  • ?<word> - Search backwards for word within file; pressing n to go to previous occurence of word.

Search and replace within file

  • :%s/foo/bar/g - Find all global occurences of foo and replace with bar

Search for files from project root

  • :find filename.txt - Find filename from project root, with tab completion.

Buffers

  • :b partialFilename - Type fuzzy filename of an open buffer, tab to cycle through possible matches
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