Navigation Commands

• H – Go to the first line of current screen.
• M – Go to the middle line of current screen.
• L – Go to the last line of current screen.
• ctrl+f – Jump forward one full screen.
• ctrl+b – Jump backwards one full screen.
• ctrl+d – Jump forward (down) a half screen.
• ctrl+u – Jump back (up) one half screen.
• gd - go to function definition
• g; - go to the previous change location
• g, - go to the newer change location
• gi - place the cursor at the same position where it was left last time in the Insert mode
• * or # - searches for the exact word at the cursor
• % - End of the function block
• fc - Find (
• You can also use ZZ to quickly save and close.
• When navigating back to the start, you can also use ^ to go to non-whitespace chars.

Visual commands

• vi( - Highlight inside (

Edit commands

• I (capital i) To enter insert mode at the beginning of the line.
• A (capital a) To enter insert mode at the end of the line.
• ci" change inside "
• ca" change around "
• cit change inside tag
• ciq change inside quotes
• ci( Change Inside (
• cia Change inside arguments
• dab Delete inside brackets
• cs'" change surround ' with "
• di" delete inside "
• da" delete around "
• dit change inside tag
• dab delete around brackets
• dib delete inside brackets
• dap delete around paragraph
• dip delete inside paragraph
• di( Delete inside (
• S (capital S) To delete the line and enter insert mode at the start.

mini.surround

• Add surrounding with sa (in visual mode or on motion).
• Delete surrounding with sd.
• Replace surrounding with sr.
• Find surrounding with sf or sF (move cursor right or left).
• Highlight surrounding with sh.
• Change number of neighbor lines with sn (see |MiniSurround-algorithm|).

FZF

• Look for files under current directory :FZF

• Look for files under your home directory :FZF ~

• With fzf command-line options :FZF --reverse --info=inline /tmp

• Bang version starts fzf in fullscreen mode :FZF!

switch between tabs

• gt -> Switch between tabs

References

• https://world.hey.com/dhh/wonderful-vi-a1d034d3

contrl+z to switch to terminal and fg to open vim again