Daily VIM commands

These are commands I found to be using frequently when on command line:

Window Operations:

• :split - horizontal split
• :vs - vertical split
• :vsplit - vertical split
• Ctrl + W, Ctrl + W - will tab between windows
• Ctrl + W, _ - will maximize current window
• Ctrl + W, = - will resize all windows equally
• 4 CTRL-W + - will increase height of window by 4 lines

File Explorer:

• :e - will tab through the files available in current directory
• :cd <..> - will change to directory, just like system command
• :Ex - open file explorer in current window
• :Sex - split current window and open explorer in one of windows
• Hit a file to open that file in current window
• Ctrl + 6 to go back to explorer from opened file

Search/Replace

• :s/OLD/NEW - find and replace a first occurrence on current line
• :s/OLD/NEW/g - find and replace all occurrences on current line
• :%s/OLD/NEW/g - find and replace all occurrences in entire file
  

Diffing files

• From within VI: :vertical diffsplit file
• From command shell: vimdiff file1, file2

Buffer Operations

• :ls - will list currently open buffers
• :bn - will open a buffer n, where n is a number as reported by ls
• :b - tab through open buffers, select one to open with Enter

Tabs

• :tabe - opens a new tab (tab in edit mode)
• gt - advance to the next
• gT - advance to the previous
• {count}gt - go to the {count} tab
• :tabe - path/to/file - to open a file
• :tabn - go to next tab

External Commands

• :pwd - print working directory
• :cd - as usual - move to directory
• :cd D - will iterate through directories starting with D

Visual Selection Mode

• v - to put in the visual selection mode
• y - yank/copy
• x - cut selection
• p - paste at cursoe location

Autosuggest
Ctrl + N or Ctrl + P - this will show choices when typing partial working


Expand tabs with spaces(put these onto the .vimrc file):
:set tabstop=4
:set expandtab
:%retab

Mouse Support (in the .vimrc file)
:set mouse=a


This is mostly a cheet sheet for myself, ..but enjoy
igor