There is always something to learn in Vim 😎
Sharing my personal notes -- Vim's useful tricks I learned from Learn Vim owned by Igor Irianto. Feel free to follow them on Twitter! I can't remember them all so I started making notes weeks ago.
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Here are my notes
g/{pattern_1}/{rng},/{pattern_2}/{rng} {cmd}
g/start/+1,/end/-1 sort
" Pattern 2: non-empty line and the -1 means a line above
g/^$/,/./-1 j
" Surround digits on lines with numbers with quotes
g/\d/s//"&"
" Think of :t as "to". Move from here "to" there.
[range]t {address} " no docs?
q{reg}q:g/{pattern}/y {reg}
{v/V/<C-v>}{count}{motion}{operator}
{operator}{v/V/<C-v>}{count}{motion}
" You can quickly generate a list of numbers with:
%s/^/\=printf("%-3s", line("."))
" ^ is a pattern for "the start of a line"
" \= substitutes using an expression
" printf() returns a string
" line(".") gets current line number
" "%-3s" returns string with -3 field width
0put=range(1,10)
0put=join(range(1,10))
0put=join(range(1,10,2), ', ')
0put = '[' . join(range(1,10,2), ', ') . ']'
0put= \"['\" . join(range(1,10), \"', '\") . \"']\"
for i in range(1,10) | put = 'abc ' . i | endfor
" e.g. ~/.vim/generators.vim
" in init.vim
" source ~/.vim/generators.vim
let days = ['monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday', 'thursday']
for i in range(1,3) | put = '- ' . days[i] | endfor
let g = { 'days': ['monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday', 'thursday'], 'others': ['a', 'b'] }
for i in range(1,3) | put = '- ' . g.days[i] | endfor
g/{pattern}/put='{text}'
g/{pattern}/-put='{text}'
" % in Vim represents the current file (try: open a file, then run :e % then press <Tab> to expand) .
" Other usages:
!cat "%"
!ls "%"
" Some useful % modifiers: example of using `echo`
echo expand('%:p') " full path
echo expand('%:.') " relative to current directory
echo expand('%:h') " head of file
echo expand('%:t') " tail of file
echo expand('%:e') " extension of file
" Edit file
noremap <leader>e :e <C-R>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <CR>
" Put path
cnoremap <C-P> <C-R>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <CR>
" Lazy git
noremap <leader>gg :Gwrite<CR>:Gcommit -m "Edit "%<CR>:Gpush<CR>
" I also use <C-R>% to insert the current filename
" Combine macros
let @z = @a . @b . @c . {...}
" Repeat the last substitute on ALL lines
s/donut/pancake/g
g&
" Vim runs :%s/donut/pancake/g. Technically Vim runs :%s//~/&:
" - %s to sub on all lines
" - // to repeat the last pattern
" - ~ to repeat the sub string
" - & to use the last flag
" Sort based on X element where characters after the match are used to sort
sort /,/
sort /,.\+,/
" Append text to register (e.g. reg `a`) and e.g. with global command
let @a=''
g/{pattern}/y A
" Copy matching lines to end of buffer
" `t`: copy matching lines
" `$`: to end of buffer
g/{pattern}/t $
" Delete even/odd lines
g/^/if line('.') % 2 == 0 | norm! d$
g/^/if line('.') % 2 != 0 | norm! d$
" Delete lines that are less than 3 char long
g/^/if strlen(getline('.')) < 3 | d
" Pass two patterns into the global command and Vim will execute the command exclusively within those patterns
g/{pattern1}/,/{pattern2}/ {cmd}
" Example: Delete all texts btw 'start' and 'end'
g/start/,/end/ d
" Example: Delete all texts btw 'start' and 'end', excluding 'start' and 'end'
g/start/+,/end/- d
" Create TOC
1ka " roughly the same as 'ggma' to put mark 'a' on the first line of the file
g/^"/t'a-