Vim Cheatsheet for myself

Inspired & Sources from thevaluable.dev

• Vim for beginners
• Vim for Intermediate Users

Move

• %: move to the matching bracket.
• CTRL-e: Scroll the window downwards.
• CTRL-f: to Forward page
• CTRL-u: Up the page 1/2
• CTRL-b: to Back page
• CTRL-d: Down the page 1/2
• {, }: to the previous or next empty line.
• H: to the Head of the page
• M: to the Middle of the page
• L: to the Lowest of the page

Text objects

• diw: Delete Inside Word
• cis: Change Inside Sentence (delete inside sentence and start INSERT mode)
  • A sentence should be ended with "."
• yip: Yank(copy) Inside Paragraph

Visual blocks

• V: set visual blocks by lines
• CTRL-v: set visual blocks by columns (Vertically)
  • use I to edit multiple lines

Buffers

Each buffers match each files. Buffers in Vim are not same with Tabs in other IDEs. Buffers can be hidden(inactive).

• :buffers shows buffers list.
• CTRL-^ switchs to the alternative buffer.
• :bn switchs to the Next Buffer.
• :bp switchs to the Previous Buffer.

Windows

Windows in Vim are spaces that show the contents of the buffers. Closing windows does not mean closing buffers.

New windows

• :new creates a new window.
• CTRL-w s Splits the current window horizontally. (and opens the same buffer in the new window)
• CTRL-w v splits the current window Vertically. (and opens the same buffer in the new window)
• CTRL-w ^ splits the current window with the alternative buffer.
• CTRL-w n splits the current window with the new file edit.

Move windows

• CTRL-w r rotates the window.
• CTRL-w R rotates the window reverse.
• CTRL-w x exchanges the next window.

Resize windows

Tabs

Tabs contain windows.

• :tabnew or :tabe opens a new tab.

• :tabclose or :tabc closes the current tab.

• :tabonly or :tabo cloese other tabs. (like clicking the close button with pressing option key in Safari)

• gt goes to the next tab.

• gT goes to the previous tab.

Plugins

vim-go

Move

• [[ moves the cursor to the previous function.
• ]] moves the cursor to the next function.