vim Notes - robbiehume/CS-Notes GitHub Wiki

Links:

• Mapping explanations
• vim reference guide (intro)
• vim reference guide (normal mode)
• Moving around in normal mode: link1, link2
• VSCode vim: medium article, GitHub README page
• Vue / VSCode with vim: link
• vim registers

Cheatsheets:

• devhints.io
• fprintf.net
• vim.rtorr.com

Comment multiple lines:

• Ctrl+V to enter 'visual block mode, then select first character of lines you want to comment out
• Shift+i to enter INSERT mode, then type #
• Then hit ESC

Find and replace (like Ctrl-D in VScode)

• Find and replace instructions
• Find and replace details
• Search for a word, highlight and delete it, then replace it, enter Normal mode and press . to replace the next occurrence
• Can press n to go to the next highlighted occurrence and skip the current one without replacing it

Find and replace current or multiple lines (Link)

• Current line: s/<search_term>/<replace_term>/g
• Current line and n-1 lines after: s/<search_term>/<replace_term>/g n
• Range of lines: start_line_number, end_line_number s/<search_term>/<replace_term>/g

Copy lines without line numbers (due to mouse=a not allowing copy select):

• Hold Alt and start selecting from the beginning of line (for Mac, use Ctrl instead)
  • Or Shift+Alt on Windows?
• Or just turn off line numbers (:set nonu)
  • Add nu and nnu shortcuts in vimrc

To paste with mouse=a

• Shift-right_click (or Shift-<mouse scroll wheel click>)

Save and run script: :w|!%:p

Stop and resume vim: * Stop: Ctrl-Z * Resume: fg

To 'unset' an option, just do :set <option>!

Replace all tabs with spaces: :%retab * Must have: set expandtab ts=4 sw=4 ai

To indent multiple lines: enter visual mode then select the lines the do > * Can do 2> or any other number to do multiple tabs * Can also just do 2>> (no visual mode) to tab 2 lines starting from the current one (current + next)

• I (in normal mode): insert before the first non-blank character of the line
• S (in normal mode): forward delete one character and enter insert mode
• * (in normal mode): go to next occurrence of word
• Ctrl-R-" (in insert mode): paste from vim register
• ".[p / P] (in normal mode): paste last inserted text
• x / X (in normal mode): delete one character forward / back and stay in normal mode
• Ctrl-V: record keystroke to get exact key binding
  • Example: converts "Ctrl-S" to "^S"
• Move between tabs: link

• :register: see the current values of all the registers

• Ctrl-W-W: move between windows
• Ctrl-W-=: set window sizes equal
• When :set mouse=a is set, you can use the mouse to move the divider