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. Some are based on my custom config.lua so it’s not recommended to take the following as your random online reference.
| Description | Command | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Select all content | ggVG |
default keybinding |
| Paste the last yanked that’s not from delete/cut | ctrl p |
custom keybinding |
| Toggle upper/lower case | ~ |
default keybinding |
| Toggle wrap mode | :toggleWrapMode or yow |
wrapping.nvim |
| Split vertically/horizontally | | and - |
custom keybinding |
| Align markdown tables | ctrl [ and ctrl ] |
vim-simple-align, custom keybinding |
| Shuffle tabs | tab and shift tab |
custom keybinding |
| Close current buffer1 | space c |
default keybinding |
| Close current window | :q |
default keybinding |
| Open a new empty buffer | space b |
custom keybinding |
| Save the changes of current buffer | :w or ctrl s |
default and custom keybinding |
| Toggle file explorer | space e or ctrl e |
neo-tree.nvim, custom keybinding |
| Multi-cursor select | ctrl n |
vim-visual-multi |
| Surround current word with brackets | ysiw) |
nvim-surround |
| Surround current sentence with qutes | ys$" |
nvim-surround |
| Surround current selection with quotes | S" |
nvim-surround |
| Delete the square brackets around cursor | ds] |
nvim-surround |
| Delete the HTML tag around cursor | dst |
nvim-surround |
| Change the single quotes to double quotes | cs'" |
nvim-surround |
Change the HTML tab around cursor to <h1> |
csh1<CR> |
nvim-surround |
| Enter line-wise visual mode | shift v |
default keybinding |
| Select multiple lines | ma (from), v'a (to) |
default keybinding |
| Delete multiple lines | ma (from), d'a (to) |
default keybinding |
| Select Virtual Environment | vs |
venv-selector.nvim, custom keybinding |
| LSP telescope diagnostics | space lw |
default keybinding |
| LSP next diagnostic | space lj |
default keybinding |
| LSP prev diagnostic | space lk |
default keybinding |
| LSP code action | space la |
default keybinding |
| Show side-by-side git diff | :DiffViewOpen |
diffview.nvim |
| Delete and substitute current character | cl or s |
default keybindng |
| Delete and substitute current word | ciw |
default keybindng |
| Delete and substitute util the end of the line | c$ or C |
default keybindng |
| Delete and substitute current line | cc or S |
default keybindng |
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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. ↩︎