Cheatsheet

Usual Problems

Problems Saving/Writing Files

No write permission

Use :w path/newfile to save the file/buffer in a place you have write permission (e.g. /tmp). Then you can replace the original version with the mv command.

Navigation

Normal Mode

• i - moves cursor one character behind and go to INSERT MODE
• a - moves cursor one character forward and go to INSERT MODE
• I - moves cursor to the beginning of the line and go to INSERT MODE
• A - moves cursor to the end of the line and go to INSERT MODE
• o - creates a new line below and go to INSERT MODE
• O - creates a new line above and go to INSERT MODE
• gg - moves the cursor to the first line of the file
• G - moves the cursor to the last line of the file
• h, j, k, l - left, down, up, right
• 0 - beginning of the line
• ^ - move to the first non-blank character of the line
• $ - end of the line
• number<ENTER> - Go to the line number
• w - go to the beginning of the next word
• W - go to the beginning of the next word ignoring special characters
• e - go to the end of the current or the next word
• E - go to the end of the current or the next word ignoring special characters
• b - go back to the beginning of the current word or to the end of the previous word
• B - go back to the beginning of the current word or to the end of the previous word ignoring special characters

Screen Movement

• zz/z. - move current line to the center of the screen
• ^U - scroll half screen up
• ^D - scroll half screen down

Marking your way

Marks are only available in the current session

• m - mark the line you were
• ' - go back to the line marked with that key

Bindings

• :Lex - open the file explorer in the left

Visual Mode

• v - select characters
• V - select lines
• Ctrl+V - select a block of text

Netrw

• p - preview the file
• d - make a directory
• % - make a file
• D - remove the file/directory
• gh - hide/unhide dotfiles
• gn - change current root directory
• i - circle between thin, long, wide and tree listing

Useful Commands

Edit Code Block

• Select a block of text using Visual Block Mode (Ctrl+v in normal mode)
• Press capital i (I) to insert in the beginning
• Press capital a (A) to insert in the end
• Write what you want and press Esc twice to write your changes

Change a word at n positions

• Search for a word using /
• Write the word
• Choose the occurrence with n/N
• Type cgn and change the current occurrence
• Change occurrences with n/N
• Press . to apply the change to the next found occurrence

Conquer of Completion

• Use "K" in normal mode to get the documentation for the current variable, function or class
• Ctrl + spacebar triggers completion
• Use :CocInstall coc-pyright coc-json coc-tsserver coc-yaml
  • Or just look in the wiki