VIM Cheatsheet for Joe

cheats.txt

MOVEMENT

 * Basic movement: h j k l (left, down,up, right)
 * Word movement: w b (next, back) W B (ignore punct)
 * Number powered movement: 3w
 * Start of line: 0, end $
 * Start doc: gg, end: G, line: 6G
 * Next page: CTRL+f, Back page: CTRL+b, 1/2 versions: CTRL+d, CTRL+u
 * Last postion in another file jumping: CTRL+0, CTRL+TAB (back, forward)

SEARCH

 * Search /text, n and N to move
 * Find a character: f[char] F[char] (next, previous), ; and , to repeat
 * Matching parens: %
 * Find word under cursor * and #

INSERT/DELETE

 * Insert/Append start/end: I A
 * Delete to end of line: D
 * Clear current line; to insert mode: S
 * Insert new line: o and O (below or above)
 * Delete x, backspace X 
 * Replace under cursor: r
 * Delete word with: d (like d2w for deleting 2 words)

VISUAL

 * Visual mode: v (character orientated)
 * Visual mode: V (line orientated)
 * Visual mode: CTRL+V (Block visual select rectangles of text)

COPY/PASTE

 * Copy current line: yy
 * Paste copied text after cursor: p

COMMENTING OUT CODE

 * Comment: CTRL+V (select lines) I#
 * Uncomment: CTRL+V (select lines) X

MISC

 * Repeat command with: .
 * Undo: u, redo: CTRL+R
 * Autocomplete word: CTRL+P
 * open file: :e [file]

TABS

 * New tab: :tabnew
 * Switch tabs (forward): gt
 * Switch tabs (backwards): gT 
 * Switch tabs (to tab number): {i}gt 
 * Open files: tab -p *.log

WINDOWS

 * Ctrl-W s for horizontal splitting
 * Ctrl-W v for vertical splitting
 * Ctrl-w q to close one
 * Change window: CTRL+W [direction]


LINKS

 * Intro: http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html
 * Official: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_toc.html
 * Plugins: http://spf13.com/post/ultimate-vim-config
 * Keyboard cheat sheet: http://walking-without-crutches.heroku.com/image/images/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.png
 * Highest rated plugins: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script_search_results.php?order_by=rating
 * Poster Cheatsheet: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0165/4168/files/preview.png

VIMRC FOR INSPIRATION

 * https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim/blob/3.0/.vimrc