| This misses out on lots of stuff. Two weeks ago, I set aside an entire day and read a bunch of Vim tutorials. My cheat sheet filled up 2 8.5"x11" pages. Here are a few gems: gg -> go to the top of the file. G -> go to the bottom. :set splitright -> makes :vs open the file on the right :set splitbottom -> makes :sp open on the bottom Ctrl-w cycles through split windows. Ctrl-[h,j,k,l] goes to the window in that direction [left, down, up, right]. When either :vs or :sp are invoked without filenames, they open the current buffer. Very useful for looking at 2 sections of the same file at once. :tabe [file] -> how could this get forgotten? Opens the file in a new tab. :set number -> shows line numbers. [Line#]G -> jumps to that line. O -> capital oh, inserts a blank line above the current line and goes into insert mode. Perfect for comments. :set ic -> ignores case for searching, usually useful. :set noic makes searching case sensitive again. (:set no[setting] turns that setting off) :set lbr -> visual word wrap. Text objects are also damn cool. In visual mode (v): i" -> selects the contents of quotes. i( -> select the contents of parens. i[ -> selects the contents of square brackets. i{ -> selects the contents of curly brackets. Using a instead of i for the above commands selects the delimiter also. >> -> indents. << does the opposite. % -> goes to matching paren/bracket. Great for debugging. * -> go to next instance of current word. # to go to previous instance. Good for cycling through function definitions. Edit: formatting, more commands. |