CHEATSHEET.md

Neovim Cheat Sheet

Key is ,

Global Commands

• :help {keyword} - Bring up help for keyword
• :save {file} - save the current file as another filename
• :close - Close the current pane
• :terminal - Open a terminal window
• <Esc> - Return to Normal mode
• :x - save and quit
• :w - save
• :q - quit
• :q! - quit don't save
• :wqa - Save and quit cloing all tabs

Movement

• h (left), j (down), k (up), l (right) - Move around the screen
• gg - Move to top of buffer
• G - Move to bottom of file
• H - Top of screen
• M - Middle of screen
• L - Bottom of the screen
• w - jump forward to start of word
• e - jump forward to end of word
• b - jump backwards to start of word
• % - Jump forward to matching paren or brace
• 0 - Start of line
• $ - End of line
• ^ - First non-blank character of line
• f{char} - Move to the next occurrence of charecter
• F{char} - Move ot the previous occurrence of charecter
• {, } - Move around paragraph blocks (works in code too)
• CTRL-e - Move screen down one line without moving cursor
• CTRL-y - Move screen up one line without moving cursor
• CTRL-b - Move back one full screen
• CTRL-f - Move forward one full screen
• CTRL-d - Move forward 1/2 screen
• CTRL-u - Move back one full screen

INSERT Mode

• i - Enter insert mode before cursor
• I - Enter insert mode at the start of the line
• a - Enter insert mode after cursor
• A - Enter insert mode at the end of the line
• o - Append a line below current line
• O - Append a line above current line
• ea - Enter insert mode at the end of the word
• CTRL-r {register} - Insert the contents of register

Dictionary

• CTRL-x CTRL-k - Look up dictionary for matches

Browsing matches:

• <Tab>, CTRL-n - Search forward for next matching keyword
• <S-Tab>, CTRL-p - Search backwards for next matching keyword

Thesaurus

• CTRL-x CTRL-t - Look up thesaurus for matches

Browsing matches:

• <Tab>, CTRL-n - Search forward for next matching keyword
• <S-Tab>, CTRL-p - Search backwards for next matching keyword

Spell Checking

• ]s - Move to next misspelled word
• [s - Move to previous misspelled word
• ]S - Move to next bad word
• [S - Move to previous bad word
• zg - Add word under the cursor as a good word to the first spellfile
• [index]zg - Add word under the cursor as a good word to the spellfile with given index (starting from 1)
• zG - Add word under the cursor as a good word to the internal word list
• zw - Mark word under the cursor as a wrong (bad) word
• zW - Mark word under the cursor as a wrong (bad) word to the internal word list
• zug - Undo adding word as a good word
• zuG - Undo adding word as a good word in the internal word list
• zuw - Undo marking word as a wrong (bad) word
• zuW - Undo marking word as a wrong (bad) word in the internal word list
• z= - Suggest correctly spelled words for the word under the cursor

Editing

• r - Replace single charecter
• J - Join line below to current one
• g~ - Switch case up to motion
• gu - Lower case up to motion
• gU - Upper case up to motion
• cc - Replace entire line
• C or c$ - Replace to end of line
• ciw - Change entire word
• cw - Replace to end of word
• u - Undo
• U - Redo
• . - Repeat last command

Marking Text

• v - Visual mode
• V - Start linewise visual mode (select lines)
• o - Move to other end of marked area
• CTRL-v - Visual Block mode
• CTRL-O - Other corner of block
• aw - Mark a word with whitespace
• iw - Mark a word without whitespace
• ab - Mark block with ()
• aB - Mark block with {}
• ib - Mark inner block with ()
• iB - mark inner block with {}
• at - Mark tags with <>

Visual Commands

• > - Shift text right
• < - Shift text left
• y - Yank marked text
• d - Delete marked text
• ~ - Switch case
• u - Change case to lowercase
• U - Change case to uppercase

Registers

• :reg - Show register content
• "xy - Yank into register x
• "xp - Paste contents of register x
• "+y - Yank into system clipboard
• "+p - Paste from system clipboard

Marks and Positions

• :marks - Lists all marks
• ma - Set position of mark a
• `a - Jump back to a
• `. - Go to position when last editing the file
• `` - Go to position before last jump
• :ju - List of jumps
• CTRL-i - Newer position in jump list
• CTRL-o - Older position in jump list
• :changes - List changes
• g, - Go to newer change
• g; - Go to older change

Macros

• qa - Record macro a
• q - stop recording macro
• @a - Run macro a
• @@ - rerun last macro

Cut and Paste

• yy - yank line
• yw - yank word
• y$ - yank to end of line
• p - Paste clipboard after cursor
• P - Paste clipboard before cursor
• dd - delete line
• dw - Delete word (from current cursor to next start of word)
• d$ - Delete till end of line
• x - delete character

Indent text

• << - Move line left
• >> - Move line right
• >% - Indent block (when on brace or paren)
• =% - Re-indent block

Searching and patterns

• /pattern - Search for pattern
• ?pattern - Search backwards for pattern
• n - Repeat search in same direction
• N - Repeat search in opposite direction
• :%s/old/new/g - Replace all old with new throughout the file
• :%s/old/new/gc - Replace all old with new throughout the file with confirmations
• :nohlsearch - Remove highlighting of search matches
• :vimgrep /pattern/ **/* - Search for pattern in all files
• :cn - next match
• :cp - prev match
• :cope - List of all matches found
• :ccl - Close list of all matches

Tabs

• :tabnew {file} - Open file in new tab
• CTRL-w T - Move current split window into its own tab
• gt - Go to next tab
• gT - Go to prev tab
• #gt - Go to tab number
• :tabclose - Close current tab
• :tabonly - Close other tabs but this one

Buffers

• :e {file} - Edit file in a new buffer
• :bn - Next buffer
• :bp - Prev buffer
• :bd - Close buffer
• :ls - List open buffers

Splits

• :sp {file} - Open file in new buffer and split
• :vs {file} - Open file in new buffer and split (verticle)
• :tab ba - Open all buffers as tabs
• CTRL-w s - split window
• CTRL-w v - split window verticle
• CTRL-w w - switch window
• CTRL-w q - Quit window
• CTRL-w x - Exchange window with next one
• CTRL-w = - Make all windows equal height and width
• CTRL-w h - Move to left window
• CTRL-w l - Move to right window
• CTRL-w j - Move to below window
• CTRL-w k - Move to above window

Dashboard

• <Leader> ss - Display dashboard

File Explorer

• <Leader> fn - Toggle file tree
• a - Add new file (or folder if you leave a / at end)
• r - Rename file
• d - Delete file or folder
• D - Trash file or folder
• y - Copy file name to system clipboard
• Y - Copy relative path to system clipboard
• gy - Copy absolute path to system clipboard
• x - Cut file
• c - Copy file
• p - Paste file from clipboard
• - - Navigate to the parent directory of current file
• CTRL-] - Change into directory
• CTRL-v - Open in vert split
• CTRL-x - Open in horizontal split
• CTRL-t - Open in new tab
• tab - Open file but stay in tree (preview)
• s - Open file or folder in system's default application
• R - Refresh tree
• I - Toggle hidden folders visibility
• H - Toggle dot files visibility
• W - Collapse whole tree
• S - Prompt path to expand
• . - Vim command mode
• CTRL-k - Show file infos

Telescope

• <Leader> fb - List buffers
• <Leader> ff - Find file
• <Leader> fg - Live grep
• <Leader> fh - Help tags
• <Leader> fr - Recent files

LSP

• <F2> - Rename
• <Leader> R - Rename
• <Leader> r - References
• <Leader> D - Go to definition
• <Leader> I - Go to implimentation
• <Leader> e - Show document diag
• <Leader> E - Show workspace diag
• <Leader> f - Format buffer
• <Leader> k - Signature help
• <Leader> K - Hover text
• <Leader> a - Do code action

Debug

• <F5> - Run
• <F10> - Step over
• <F11> - Step into
• <F12> - Step out
• <Leader> b - Set break point
• <F9> - Open debug repl
• <Leader> d - All dap commands
• <Leader> B - List break points
• <Leader> dv - List variables
• <Leader> df - List frames

Test runner

• <Leader> t - Run whole test suite
• <Leader> tn

Terminal Windows

• <Leader> ~ - Open new floating terminal
• <Leader> ~j - next floating terminal
• <Leader> ~k - prev floating terminal
• <Esc> - Close terminal

Git

• <Leader> gs - Open magit fullscreen
• <CR> - Expand hunks
• R - Refresh magit buffer
• q - Quit magit buffer
• S - Stage or unstage hunk
• F - Stage or unstage the whole file
• DDD - Discard changes to hunk
• L - Stage the line under cursor
• E - Edit file that is selected
• CA - Set commit mode to amend
• CU - Go back to stage mode
• I - Add file under cursor to .gitignore
• CC - Commit changes or move to commit mode.

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