VIM_CHEATSHEET.md

VIM

Cheat sheet

1. Search with spaces

:Ack foo\ bar

This approach to escaping is taken in order to make it straightfoward to use powerful Perl-compatible regular expression syntax in an unambiguous way without having to worry about shell escaping rules:

:Ack \blog((['"]).*?\1) -i --ignore-dir=src/vendor src dist build

1.1 Search

CTRL-R CTRL-W : pull word under the cursor into a command line or search CTRL-R CTRL-A : pull whole word including punctuation

2. Fix indentation in the whole file

Start in the top of a file (to get there, press gg anywhere in the file.).

Then press =G

2.1 Indent/Unindent a line or multiple lines

⁠– indents a line << ⁠– unindents a line =% - (re)indent the current braces { ... }

3. How to retrace your movements (backwards)

Often, when you edit a file with code, you open another one in the same window. Then it's not so easy to come back to the one you just worked on.

You can use CTRL+o for this.

4. How to retrace your movements (forward)

You can use CTRL+L for this.