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• Cheatsheet
  • Modes
  • Navigation (Motion)
  • Edit (Operators)
  • Navigation (Object)
  • Edit (Object)
  • Indent
  • Visual selection
  • Search
  • Substitute
  • Navigation (Screen)
  • Windows and Tabs
  • Save and Exit
  • Various
  • Commands
  • Macro
  • Help
• Configuration
• Resources
  • Plugins
  • NeoVim distributions
  • Cheatsheets

Cheatsheet

Modes

• Esc: Normal mode: for navigation and inserting commands.
• Esc i: Insert mode: for inserting text.
• Esc v: Visual mode: for selecting and manipulating text.
  • Esc S-v: Visual line mode: select lines.
  • Esc C-v: Visual block mode: select columns.
• Esc : Command mode: for entering commands.

Navigation (Motion)

• h: move left.
• j: move down.
• k: move up.
• l: move right.
• w: move start of next word.
• b: move start of previous word.
• e: move end of next word
• W: move start of next token.
• B: move start of previous token start.
• E: move end of next token.
• t: find till next char.
• f: find next char.
• T: find till previous char.
• F: find previous char.
• 0: move start of line.
• $: move end of line.
• ^: move first (non-blank) char of line.
• gg: go to the beginning of the file.
• #G: go to line number #.
• G: go to the end of the file.
• %: go to matching (,),[,],{ or }.

Edit (Operators)

• i: enter insert mode at the current cursor position.
• a: enter insert mode after the current cursor position.
• I: enter insert mode at the beginning of the line.
• A: enter insert mode at the end of the line.
• o: insert a new line below the current line and enter insert mode.
• O: insert a new line above the current line and enter insert mode.
• x: delete the character at the cursor position.
• X: delete the character before the cursor position.
• d: delete operator.
• dd: delete the current line.
• D: delete from the cursor position to the end of the line.
• y: copy operator.
• yy: copy the current line.
• Y: copy from the cursor position to the end of the line.
• p: paste the copied or deleted content after the cursor position.
• P: paste the copied or deleted content before the cursor position.
• r: replace character under the cursor.
• c: replace operator.
• C: replace from cursor to end of line.

• cc: replace the current line.

• u: undo last change.
• C-r: redo last undone change.
• .: repeat last command.

Navigation (Object)

• ): move start of next sentence.
• (: move start of previous sentence.
• }: move start of next paragraph.
• {: move start of previous paragraph.
• ]: move start of next section.
• [: move start of previous section.

Edit (Object)

• diw: delete inner word.
• ciw: change inner word.
• yiw: yank inner word.
• daw: delete a word.
• caw: change a word.
• yaw: yank a word. …

Indent

• >>: indent to the right.
• <<: indent to the left.
• ==: autoindent line.

Visual selection

Search

• /pattern: search pattern forward.
• ?patern: search pattern backward.
• n: search next pattern.
• N: search previous pattern.
• *: find next occurence of token.
• #: find previous occurence of token.

Substitute

• :s/old/new: substitute new for the first old in a line.
• :s/old/new/g: substitute new for all old on a line.
• :#,#s/old/new/g: substitute new for all old between two line #.
• :%s/old/new/g: substitute all occurrences in the file.
• :%s/old/new/gi: substitute all occurrences and make it case insensitive.
• :%s/old/new/gc: substitute all occurrences and ask for confirmation each time.

Navigation (Screen)

• H: move to top of screen.
• M: move to middle of screen.
• L: move to bottom of screen.
• zz: center screen.
• C-b: move backward one full screen.
• C-f: move forward one full screen.
• C-d: move down half screen.
• C-u: move up half screen.
• C-e: scroll down one line.
• C-y: scroll up one line.
• C-o: move backward through jump history.
• C-i: move forward through jump history.

Windows and Tabs

• sp: split window horizontally.
• vsp: split window vertically.
• C-w-w: cycle through open windows.
• C-w-h: move to window on the left.
• C-w-j: move to window below.
• C-w-k: move to window above.

• C-w-l: move to window on the right.

• :tabnew: open new tab.
• :tabclose: close current tab.

Save and Exit

• :w: save file.
• :w <filename>: save file as <filename>.
• :q: quit.
• :qw: save file and quit.
• :q! discard changes and quit.

Various

• C-g: display location and file status.

Commands

• :!<command> run command.

Macro

• qa: record macro a.
• q: stop recoding macro.
• @a: run macro a.
• @@: run last macro again.

Help

• :help: open help.
• :help <topic>: open help for <topic>.

Configuration

• See my nvim configuration

Resources

Plugins

• Awesome Neovim
• Neovimcraft

NeoVim distributions

• kickstart.nvim
• LazyVim
• NvChad
• AstroNvim
• LunarVim

Cheatsheets

• Awesome Vim Cheat Sheets to Help You Learn Vim