Vim tips and tricks

• Jump between modifications
  g; - backward
  g, - forward
  `. - to last
  <Ctrl>i - backward through files
  <Ctrl>o - forward through files

• Editing
  ct + character - delete till character with insert mode
  di + character - delete between charactes (quotes, brackets)
  cw - replace word with insert mode
  xp - swap two characters
  ~ - invert letter case (A->a, a->A)
  viw~ - flip case word under cursor u - undo
  <Ctrl>r - redo
  S - modify line

• Find word
  / + pattern - by pattern
  /\c + pattern - case insensitivity
  * - under cursor forwards
  # - under cursor backwards
  <ctrl>r + 0- paste yanked text in patterns input

• Find character
  f + character in line
  ; - next character
  , - prev character

• Copy and paste
  yy - copy line
  p - paste line
  Vp - replace line from yank
  yiw - copy inner word
  viwp - replace word from yank
  "ayy - copy line to register a
  "Ayy - appned another line to register a
  "ap - paste register a
  :.w !pbcopy - copy current line to clipboard (Mac OS X)
  ggVG and :w !pbcopy - copy whole file to clipboard (Mac OS X)
  r !pbpaste - paste from clipboard (Mac OS X)

• Info
  :ls - show buffers
  :f - show current file info
  :pwd - show current directory
  :ju - show list of modifications
  :reg - display contents of all registers

• Open files
  :e + path - open one file
  :E - file explorer

• Open recent files

  1. :bro ol - open recent files list
  2. q - open prompt terminal and type file number

• Fix indent
  = - on line
  =% - in the current braces
  gg=G - global file

• Delete Window carriage return character ^M
  :%s/<Ctrl>v<Ctrl>m//g

• Misc
  >> - indent right line by tab
  << - indent left line by tab
  . - repeat last command
  :%s= *$== - delete end of line blanks

• Visaul mode
  v - default mode
  <Ctrl>v - vertical mode
  <Shift>v - select by lines

• View tabs, spaces...

  :set list "show
  :set nolist "hide
  

Config .vimrc

• Indents switch functions
  • Hard tabs (\t)

    function! Tabs()
      set softtabstop=8
      set shiftwidth=8
      set tabstop=8
      set noexpandtab
    endfunction
    

  • Soft tabs (2 spaces)

    function! Spaces()
      set softtabstop=2
      set shiftwidth=2
      set tabstop=2
      set expandtab
    endfunction
    

  • Usage :execute Spaces() and :execute Tabs()

• Tiny search highlight

  highlight Search ctermfg=Grey ctermbg=NONE cterm=NONE
  

• UTF

  set encoding=utf-8
  set fileencoding=utf-8
  set termencoding=utf-8
  

• Install Editorconfig

  mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload
  curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
  echo "
  call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
  Plug 'editorconfig/editorconfig-vim'
  call plug#end()
  " > ~/.vimrc
  vim +PlugInstall editorconfig-vim +qall