vim_notes.txt

========== Navigation ==========

CTRL+C   OR Ctrl+[ instead of ESC.
1/2 ½    BOL (Begin-of-line)
0    BOL (Begin-of-line)
$    EOL (End-of-line)

H    Goto HEADER (Top of the screen)
M    Goto MIDDLE of BUFFER
L    Goto last (bottom).

CTRL+F    Page down
CTRL+B    Page up
(Handy Page Up / Page Down for Mac where Fn+Up/Down is scrolling Term)

^      Cursor to first non whitespace character
g_    Cursor to last whitespace character
gg    (BOF) Beginning of File
G    (EOF) End of the file. 
10G    Goto line 10
:10    Goto line 10

fc    Move forward to c (c= character)

Fc    Move back to c

gd    Goto Definition of Variable
[m      Go to function opening

Ctrl+D    Page-by-page scrolling

CTRL+O    Last location (cursor)
CTRL-I    Next location (cursor)
CTRL+^  Alternate file (last edited file in current window)

*    Next word
#    Previous word

%    on brackets {} () [] will find the matching one.

3dd - delete 3 lines
d2f. - delete to the second period.

v$% - Select whole function (incl. function name)

:n /folder/**    Open all files (and directories) in folder as buffers (Delete directories and save session for projects)

# [], [[, ]] og ][  what?

========== Change ==========

I     INSERT (at beginning)
A     INSERT (at end of line)
go    INSERT (at end of file)

ci}    Change inside brackets
vi}    Select inside brackets
dit     Delete the text between matching XML tags. (it is for "inner tag block".)
cit     Change the text between matching XML tags. (it is for "inner tag block".)

s    Substitute char
S    Substitute line

c2w    Change the next 2 words

dgg     Delete to top
dG     Delete to bottom     

d^    Delete to start of line
D    Delete to end of line (or d$)
dt;    Delete until ;
d/foo Delete until foo

d}     Delete next p-graph     
d{     Delete previous p-graph

SHIFT-J Join below line to above ("LINE1\nLINE2" becomes "LINE1 LINE2")

cc    Replace Line
S    Replace Line

s    Replace Letter (Delete then Insert Mode)
cw    Replace word
c$    Replace to EOL
c/word  Change word and put in INSERT mode.
c?word  Change word (search backwards) and put in INSERT mode.

deep    Swap two words in front of cursor (Cursor on empty space)
ddp    Swap two lines

g-    Undo Change
u    Undo Change
g+    Redo Change
CTRL+R    Redo Change

y    Copy marked text
Y    Copy/Yank whole line
y$    Copy/Yank whole line
2yy    Copy 2 lines
yw    Copy word

ALT+j    Move current line UP
ALT+k    Move current line DOWN

CTRL-6    Switch between open buffers
ggVG    Select All
ggvG=    Auto-indenting

x    Delete current character

CTRL+A    Increment Number
1CTRL+A    Increment Multi-Digit Number
CTRL+X  Decrements Number
1CTRL+X  Decrements Multi-Digit Number

CTRL+O (Insert-Mode) run Vim commands (: and macro, etc.)

:diffthis  In two buffers/windows enables diffmode.

ggVGJ  join all lines

========== Windows ==========

CTRL+H    Window Left ̂
CTRL+L    Window Right ̂
CTRL+J    Window Down ̂
CTRL+K    Window Up ^

CTRL+WW    Switch between Windows
CTRL+WR Rotate

CTRL+WQ    Quit window
CTRL+WV    Split Windows Vertical
CTRL-W_ Minimize window
CTRL-W| Maximize window
CTRL-W+ Grow window
CTRL-W- Shrink window

CTRL+W_ Max height
CTRL + W| Max width
CTRL+W= Set all windows to equal size.
CTRL+W+R Rotate windows (swap left/right top/bottom)
CTRL+W+T Put window in a tab.
CTRL+W+O Close every window but current one.


========== Macro ==========

q    Record Macro
qa    Run macro (a)
3@q    Run macro 3 times



========== Navigation/Files ==========

:cwd    Show current working directory
:lcwd    Show current (Tab/Window) directory
:ls    Show current buffers
:cd    Change directory
:lcd    Change current (Tab/Window) directory


:new will create a split window with an unnamed buffer.

:enew will open one in the current window.

:vnew will open one in a vertically split window.

:tabnew will open one in a new tab.

vim scp://root@adrafinil//etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules

========== Visual commands ========== 
>    Indent Right
<    Indent Left
d    Delete marked text
~    Switch case
V    Select whole line



========== Insert commands ==========

CTRL-R        * will insert in the contents of the clipboard
CTRL-R        " (the unnamed register) inserts the the last delete or yank. 



========== Search / Replace ==========

/            Search
<SPACE>            Search
?               Backwards Search
n            Next Search ¯
N            Previous Search
c/word                  Change word and put in INSERT mode.
c?word                  Change word (search backwards) and put in INSERT mode.

:bufdo /searchstr/    Search in all open files

:%s/old/new/g        replace all old with new throughout file
:%s/foo/bar/gi        The same as above, but ignore the case of the pattern you want to substitute. This replaces foo, FOO, Foo, and so on.
:%s/old/new/gc        replace all old with new throughout file with confirmations
:%s/foo/bar/c        For each line on the file, replace the first occurrence of foo with bar and confirm every substitution.

# replace space with newline - literally CTRL-V
:%s/ /<CTRL-V>/g

:sort u - remove duplicate lines
# highlight duplicate lines
:syn clear Repeat | g/^\(.*\)\n\ze\%(.*\n\)*\1$/exe 'syn match Repeat "^' . escape(getline('.'), '".\^$*[]') . '$"' | nohlsearch

:rs/foo/bar/a        Substitute foo with bar. r determines the range and a determines the arguments.

:g/^#/d            Delete all lines that begins with #
:g/^$/d            Delete all lines that are empty

:g/^///d        Delete all // comments
:g/^s*$/d        Delete all whitespace lines

:ab mail mail@provider.org     Define mail as abbreviation of mail@provider.org (replace when "mail" is written)

:%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>//g        Remove ^M from files.


========== Marks ========== 

m+[A-Z]        marks the current line with an alias of the key pressed.
'[A-Z]        goes to this mark.
Using marks




========== Misc ========== 

.    Repeat Command
0p    Paste BOL
$p    Paste EOL

# Insert mode
CTRL-R " Paste unnamed/yank register (Insert Mode)
CTRL-R * will insert in the contents of the clipboard (:h i_ctrl-r)
CTRL+R #
# Normal mode
#p

g CTRL-G    Show Col 1 of 0; Line 5 of 6; Word 1 of 11; Byte 968 of 1019
:help g_CTRL-G
:f    Show bufname, modify-status, 
"[No Name]" [Modified] line 6 of 6 --100%-- col 49
:help :f

:command show all functions/commands in vim (plugins, custom functions, etc.)

SHIFT+K "Man page" of command under cursor

:%!python -m json.tool - Format JSON pretty in current buffer via Python.

:bn    Next Buffer
:bp    Previous Buffer
:b #    Goto # Buffer. (eg. ':b 1' goto buffer 1)
:b     filename

:tab sball    Opens a new tab for each open buffer

gt    Next Tab
gT    Previous Tab

:r    Read from file into buffer
:r!shellcmd Read shell command into buffer
gf    open file under cursor (or import statement)
<c-w>f    open in a new window (Ctrl-w f)
<c-w>gf    open in a new tab (Ctrl-w gf) 

# Set tabline to current directory
:set tabline=[_%{getcwd()}_] 

#CTAGS
# Generate tags (for goto definition, goto file, taglist) for PHP and template files (*.tpl)
ctags -R --languages=php --langmap=PHP:+.tpl .
ctags -R --languages=php --langmap=PHP:+.tpl --tag-relative=yes --PHP-kinds=+cf  .

# Avoid loading vimrc/plugins
gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE (to check for .vimrc/_vimrc causing it) 

# Who set filetype?
:verbose set filetype?

# Step-by-step autocmd go-through ..
:debug wincmd p

# Output Vim command to file (:buffers in this case)
:redir > outputFile
:buffers
:redir END

# Show character hex, octal, code under cursor
ga

# Quickfix Window (Compiler Messages etc.)
:cw 

# Clear last search highlightning
set nohlsearch

# Reverse line order (explanation: Reverse all lines)
:g/^/m0

========== Folding ========== 

za        Toggle folding
zA        Toggle folding recursively
zc        Close one or count folds under the cursor
zC        Close all folds under cursor
zD        Delete folds recursively
zE        Delete ALL Folds
zf        motion - Create a fold
zF        Create a fold for count lines
zi        Toggle foldenable

zM        Close all folds, set foldlevel=0, set foldenable
zR        Open all folds and set foldlevel to highest fold level.
zn        Fold "none": reset foldenable and open all folds
zN        Fold "normal": set foldenable and restore all folds
zo        Open one or count folds
z0        Open all folds under the cursor


========== netrw / Explorer ==============
(Built-in filebrowser)

<leftmouse> open
<rightmouse> delete

d New directory
D Delete file(s)/directory(ies)
p Preview file

qb list bookmarks (and recent dirs) ?
mb make bookmark
mB delete bookmark

mf OR <s-leftmouse> Mark files

gb goto bookmark
md diff marked files

mp print marked files
mu unmark all

t enter file in new tab

1u go back 1 history (corresponds to qb-listing)
u forward one directory in history
U backwards one directory in history

========== Plugins / Extensions ========== 

Benchmark/Profiling Scripts
vim --startuptime vim.log

--- vim-surround ---
cs({ - change () to {} - (cursor inside)
ds" - remove " - y

cs'<b> - add <b> tag (on 'Text' only)
ysiw] - add [] to word (works for <b> tags too)
yss) - add ) to line (works for <b> tags too)

(V) select text, S<div class="wrap"> -- wrap in this tag



================== Regex ======================

BTsync secrets vim regex
 - magic vim "perl regex" operator
 - A-Z 0-9
 - times 33
 - \<   \>  # means word boundary in-between (this is a word/string)
/\<[A-Z0-9]\{33}\>