My Vim essentials

vim-essentials.md

My Vim Essentials

Those are the commands which I frequently use & feel it effective & easy.

Working with .vimrc, Vundle

• :source % to reload vimrc
• :PluginInstall to install plugin using Vundle

Navigations

Line navigation

• ^ – goes to the start of line, remains in command mode.
• I – (uppercase i) goes to the start of line, switches to insert mode
• $ – go to the end of the current line, remains in command mode, newline character are included.
• A – goes to the end of the current line, switches to insert mode.
• G – goes to the final line of the file.

Word navigation

• e – go to the end of the current word.
• E – go to the end of the current WORD.
• b – go to the previous (before) word.
• B – go to the previous (before) WORD.
• w – go to the next word.
• W – go to the next WORD.

Paragraph navigation

• { – Go to the beginning of the current paragraph. By pressing { again and again move to the previous paragraph beginnings.
• } – Go to the end of the current paragraph. By pressing } again and again move to the next paragraph end, and again.

References:

• https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/8-essential-vim-editor-navigation-fundamentals/

Tmux

• ctr + B " to split horizontally.
• ctr + B % to split vertically.

Uncategorized

Reload Vimrc (or any files) without reopen the file

:source ~/.vimrc

NERDTree

• :NERDTreeFind to switch to the NERDTree and find the file of the current buffer.
• :NERDTree to open a new NERDTree.
• P to jump to the NERDTree root, cd to change CWD to the NERDTree root.
• :Bookmark <name> to create a bookmark at the current directory
• :ClearBookmark <name> to delete a bookmark

Regular VIM commands

• Shift + $ to go to the last character of the line.
• Shift + ^ to go to the first character of the line.
• :bufdo <command> to perform a command on all quick fix buffers.
• Use :cfdo <command> to run a command on all quick fix files.
• We can pipe commands while using :cfdo too, for example: :cfdo %s/pattern/replacement/g|w
• Use :cw to open quick fix buffer.

FZF

• :Files to open the search terminal for files (Start at the directory of CWD).
• In :Files search terminal, use Tab to add files to quick fix and Enter to open quick fix window.

Multi-cursor (using Visual Multi vim plugin)

• To quickly replace all similar appearances of a sentence in a file.
  • Select the sentence using Visual Mode.
  • Ctrl + N will find all of the sentence appearances.
  • N to select all appearances.
  • d to delete all appearances.
  • i to start typing at every places you have deleted the sentence.
  • ESC to escape from the insert mode.