zackfern_vim_cheat_sheet.md

Sublime to Vim

• Use Control+W instead of Alt+Backspace
• To unindent a line, use Ctrl+D
• To indent a line, use Ctrl+T
• Upper-case J joins lines (same as Cmd+J in Sublime Text)
• Use :edit! to force a reload of the current file from disk.
• To skip to the first non-whitespace character on a line, press ^
• yy copies (yanks) a line

Window Commands

• To close all the windows, use :qa
• To save and quit all, :wqa
• :wincmd / :winc allows you to execute commands like you would calling Ctrl+W (for example, :wincmd q is the same as Ctrl+W q)

Resizing

• :res N - Changes the height of a window to be N rows.
• :res +N - Adds N rows to the height of a window
• :res -N - Removes N rows from the height of a window
• :vertical res N - Changes the width of a window to be N characters
• :vertical res +N - Adds N characters to the width of a window
• :vertical res -N - Removes N characters from the width of a window
• Ctrl-W = - Makes all windows visible in VIM approximately the same height.
• Ctrl-W _ will make the current window as large / big as it can be.
• :only will close all windows except the current one

Other Cool Shit

• Use :w !diff % to see a diff between the last saved version and the current version.
• Use :w !pbcopy to copy an entire file to the system clipboard (OS X).
• Remove duplicates while sorting, :sort -u
• Sort in reverse, :sort!
• Run a macro on every line of a visual selection, :'<,'>normal @q
• Type gi and Vim will take you back to where you were last in insert mode and put you back into insert mode.
• You can use ci" or ci' to clear out and insert inside of double / single quotes, say to replace a sentence / word.
• You can use da_pattern_ to delete around patern. For example, da" will delete the entire "Quoted Text."
• Ctrl+O will take you back to where you were before you jumped around your file.
• Ctrl+I will take you forward to where you were after you jumped back in your file.
• :jumps will display your jumps.

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Starting Vim without loading .vimrc

Use the -u option and pass it NONE (vim -u NONE):

-u {vimrc}

Use the commands in the file {vimrc} for initializations. All the other
initializations are skipped. Use this to edit a special kind of files.
It can also be used to skip all initializations by giving the name "NONE".
See ":help initialization" within vim for more details.