VIM stuff

• vim shortcuts
• vimtutor
• onivim built on revery
• vim cheatsheet
• vimtutor - built in tutor in all unix envs
• og sourceforge documentation
• ThePrimeagen - a youtuber
• vim plug

Some vimrcs

• elethom
• Kun

Moving Around

• h, j, k, l - left, down, up, right
• w - move to START of next word
• e - move to the END of the next word.
• b - nove back a word
• gg - top of file
• G - bottom of file
• 23G - jump to line
• $ - jump to end of line
• 0 - jump to start of line
• fc - go forward to character c (any character)
• Fc - go backward to character c

Deleting, editing, etc.

• d - delete, a motion… e.g., dw means “delete word”
• x - delete where cursor is
• y - “yank” operator, aka copy
• p - paste after cursor
• P - paste before cursor
• c - “change” operator, cw = change word
• u - undo a sinlge change
• r - redo a single change
• Ctrl + r - redo a single undo
• a - append, aka start typing after the cursor
• A - append from end of line
• o - start inserting on a new line
• O - start inserting on a new line from prev line
• C - delete rest of line from cursor, and start inserting.

Confusingly, doubling a motion means to do it for a line?

• yy - yank a line
• dd - delete a line

Searching

• / - search motion, aka forward motion. after running a search, you can use n to jump through search results. N moves backwards.k
• ? - same as /, but searches backwards.

Select

• v - enter “visual” mode for selecting text.
• V - enter “visual line” mode for selecting whole lines

Text Objects

• “Text Objects” are blocks of text with their own starting or ending characters, like { or ().
• Text objects can be manipulated with the other operators, like y, c, and d, and v
• In general, defining a text object with i will be the so-called “inner” object, while defining a text object with a will be “an” object

Examples:

• di( will delete everything in parentheses
• da( will delete everything in the parentheses, including the parentheses
• ci( will change everything in the parentheses
• yi( will yank everything in the parentheses
• dit will delete everything within a current html tag (t here automatically knowing it’s HTML!)