Personal NVIM Cheatsheet

cheatsheet.md

This is my personal cheatsheet that I'm building because of my (most-likely) personal hatred towards VIM's community. Thank you vim community for the toxic, unwelcoming, unopenmindedness and egotistical behavior towards newcomers.

I just want to code using a lightweight editor that's matured enough for there to be plugins and not obsess towards the thing that I already can do with VScode but somehow "more optimized" and stuff like pErSoNaLiZeD DeVeLoPmEnT EnViRoNmEnT.

kickstart.nvim lacks wiki / documentation (Issue #3) while targetting newcomers to begin your Neovim journey.

Props to Helix editor to actually have a way better cheatsheet / docs for newcomers but sadly no plugins support yet :(

WARNING: Most commands are case sensitive and modifier sensitive!

• w means pressing W key
• W means pressing SHIFT and W together (Capitalization!)
• ^ means pressing CTRL ignoring capitalization; ^W means CTRL + w WITHOUT SHIFT

Basics

Cursor movement: Arrow keys or hjkl, preferrably maximalize hjkl

h     l
left  right

j     k
down  up

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• w - jump to next word before punctuation
• W - jump to next word
• b - jump to previous word before punctuation
• B - jump to previous word

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• gg - jump to start / beginning of file
• G - jump to end of file (eof)

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On VISUAL (v) or VISUAL-LINE V mode

• > - indent to the right
• < - indent to the left

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Find / Fuzzy / Regex / Regular Expression

• / - Start finding stuff with Regex, end with Enter
• n - Find next result
• N - Find previous result

Replace - Highlight things that want to be replaced using Visual mode then

• :s/<findterm>/<replaceterm>

Windows

• ^W then movement keys to focus / highlight different window

• :sp or ^W s to open new window below (split horizontally)

• :vsplit or ^W v to open new window to the right (split vertically)

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Note, you can prefix these with numbers

• ^W > - enlarges window size
• ^W < - make window size smaller
• ??? - minimize window (idt its even possible)

File / Word Finder (Telescope)

:Telescope find_files = <Space> sf Search files :Telescope = <Space> sg Search grep

Embedded terminal

TBH just spawn a new tab / new window on your native terminal. Its not worth it.

Make a new window, run :terminal then enter Insert mode. To make the terminal stop eating your input, switch to another window or CTRL + \ CTRL + N

LSP - Intellisense, Language Server, etc

• <SPACE>rn - Rename Symbol, VSCode's F2 (vim.lsp.buf.rename)
• <SPACE>ca - Code Action, VSCode's CTRL + . (vim.lsp.buf.code_action)
• <SPACE>e - Show errors / warning / diagnostics / codelens pop up on cursor (vim.diagnostic.open_float)
• <SPACE>q - List all errors / diagnostic / warning / codelens on bottom | VSCode's Problems panel (vim.diagnostic.setloclist)
• gd - Go to Definition (vim.lsp.buf.definition)
• gr - Go to References (require('telescope.builtin').lsp_references)
• K - Show hover information (vim.lsp.buf.hover)
• gcc - Go Comment Line
• gcb - Go Comment Block - Try this if you're on React / Astro

nvim-tree - File tree sidebar

Sidebar would need to be focused. If accidentally closed, run :NvimTreeOpen

• g? - Toggle help
• a - Create new file
  • Append an extra / to create a directory