My Terminal-Only Development Setup (3)
2024-02-11
In this post I’m just listing some (maybe, based on my use habits) useful commands that I find myself Googling all the time. A lot of them are based on third-party plugins and some are defined in my custom config.lua so it’s definitely not recommended to take the following as your random online reference of VIM commands.
| Description | Command | Source (if not VIM default) |
|---|---|---|
| Select all content | ggVG |
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| Toggle upper/lower case | ~ |
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| Toggle wrap mode | :toggleWrapMode or yow |
wrapping.nvim |
| Split vertically or horizontally | | or - |
custom |
| Align markdown tables | ctrl [ and ctrl ] |
vim-simple-align, custom |
| Shuffle tabs | tab and shift tab |
custom |
| Close current buffer1 | space c |
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| Close current window | :q |
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| Open a new empty buffer | space b |
custom |
| Save the changes of current buffer | :w or ctrl s |
and custom |
| Toggle file explorer | space e or ctrl e |
neo-tree.nvim, custom |
| Multi-cursor select | ctrl n |
vim-visual-multi |
| Replace all text | :%s/source/target/g |
vim command |
| Surround current word with brackets | ysiw) |
nvim-surround |
| Surround current sentence with qutes | ys$" |
nvim-surround |
| Surround current selection with quotes | S" |
nvim-surround |
| Delete the square brackets around cursor | ds] |
nvim-surround |
| Delete the HTML tag around cursor | dst |
nvim-surround |
| Change the single quotes to double quotes | cs'" |
nvim-surround |
Change the HTML tab around cursor to <h1> |
csth1 |
nvim-surround |
| Enter line-wise visual mode | V |
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| Select multiple lines | ma (from), v'a (to) |
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| Delete multiple lines | ma (from), d'a (to) |
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| Select Virtual Environment | vs |
venv-selector.nvim, custom |
| LSP telescope diagnostics | space lw |
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| LSP next diagnostic | space lj |
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| LSP prev diagnostic | space lk |
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| LSP code action | space la |
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| Show side-by-side git diff | :DiffViewOpen |
diffview.nvim |
| Delete and substitute current character | cl or s |
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| Delete and substitute current word | ciw |
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| Delete and substitute util the end of the line | c$ or C |
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| Delete and substitute current line | cc or S |
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| Search recent files based on file name | space sr |
telescope.nvim |
| Search files based on file name | space sf |
telescope.nvim |
| Search files based on text | space st |
telescope.nvim |
| Search the current word | * |
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| No highlight | :nohl or space h |
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| Jump in or out | ctrl i or ctrl o |
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| Hover information | K |
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| Go to definition | gd |
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| Go to declaration | gD |
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| Format the current JSON file | :%!jq . |
installed jq package in system |
| Move the current line down or up | alt j or alt k |
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Move the current line to line x |
:m x |
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| Indent or dedent the current line | > or < |
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Jump forward or backward to the first x |
fx or Fx |
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Delete forward before or including character x |
dtx or dfx |
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Delete backward after or including character x |
dTx or dFx |
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Yank forward before or including character x |
ytx or yfx |
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Yank backward after or including character x |
yTx or yFx |
|
| Delete the word | diw |
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Very different concepts: buffers vs windows. For example, when a vertical split view is turned on, you can shuffle through all opened buffers in both left and right views. Now, in order to quit this split view, you’re gonna close a window by
:q. In order to close a buffer (can be seen as an opened file) across both views, we needspacec. ↩︎