Vim / Neovim

Enable Italics in Vim

• add highlight Comment cterm=italic to .vimrc (after the colorscheme declaration).

• If using nanotech/jellybeans.vim colorscheme, make sure to add let g:jellybeans_use_term_italics = 1 too.

Buffers

• :ls - see a list of current buffers.
• :e ../file.txt - open ../file.txt.
• :b file - switch between all open files.
• :b# - open last visited file.

Tabs (I use tmux, not needed anymore)

• :tabs - list all tabs including their displayed windows.
• :tabm 0 - move current tab to first.
• :tabm - move current tab to last.
• :tabn - go to next tab.
• :tabp - go to previous tab.
• :tabfirst - go to first tab.
• :tablast - go to last tab.

In Normal mode:

• gt - go to next tab.
• gT - go to previous tab.
• {i}gt - go to tab in position i.

Command Mode

• :earlier 10m - time travel in time to 10 minutes ago inside Vim.
• :later 10m - time travel in time to 10 minutes later inside Vim.
• :norm Ibegin - go to the beginning of a line and enter begin, then repeat across all selected lines.
• !pwd - run pwd terminal command from vim.
• :read date - insert the output of date command in current line.
  • :30read date - insert the output of date command in line 30.
  • :$read date - insert the output of date command in the last line.
• :10,15s/old/new/g - substitute all occurences of old with new from line 10 to 15.
• :.,.+5s/old/new/g - substitute all occurences of old with new from the current line to the next 5 lines.
• :g/import/d - delete all lines including the word import.
• :g!/import/d - delete all lines not including the word import.
• :g/^@/m$ - move all lines starting with @ to the end of the document.

Working with splits

• :split / :sp - horizontal split.
  • :10sp - 10 lines high horizontal split.
  • <ctrl> w _ - maximize a horizontal split.
  • <ctrl> w = - equalize splits.
  • :resize +5 / :res +5 - increase a split height by 5 lines.
• :vsplit / :vs - vertical split.
  • <ctrl> w | - maximize a vertical split.
  • <ctrl> w = - equalize splits.
  • :vertical resize +5 / :vert res +5 - increase a split height by 5 lines.
• <ctrl> w c - close a split.
• <ctrl> w R - swap splits.

Miscellaneous

• :set wrap / :set nowrap
• Default leader is \ (I map to it to <space> / ,)
• <CR> (aka carriage/cartridge return) means Enter/Return.
• Alternative to <ESC>: <C-[> (I map <ESC> to jj / jk)
• :smile