Vim Talk

I watched a really good talk on Vim. It taught me a couple of goodies that I didn’t know since before.

If you want to watch it, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ZbrtoSuzw

Here are my notes from the talk.

Operators

Operators act on text objects or motions.

[count][operator][text object/motion]

keystroke	description
%	go to first matching paren/bracket
[count]+	down to first non-blank char of line
[count]$	to end of line
[count]f/F{char}	to next occurence of {char}
[count]t/T{char}	to before next occurence of {char}
[count]h/j/k/l	left, down, up or right
[count]]m	Go to beginning of next method
[count]w/W	forward to beginning of word/WORD
[count]b/B	backward a word/WORD
[count]e/E	forward to end of word/WORD

keystroke	description
H	High of screen
M	Middle of screen
L	Low of screen
zt	Move screen so that cursor is in top
zz	Move screen so that cursor is in middle
zb	Move screen so that cursor is in bottom
ctrl-y	Shift text down one line
ctrl-e	Shift text up one line
ctrl-b	Page up
ctrl-f	Page down
ctrl-u	Page half up
ctrl-d	Page half down
gd	goto definition
gf	goto file (for instance when cursor is at a path)

Works like bookmarks.

keystroke	description
ctrl-o / ctrl-i	cycle through :jump
g; /g,	cycle through changes

keystroke	description
:bn	goto next buffer
b {filename}	goto buffer {filename}
bd	delete current buffer
:buffers	list buffers
:bufdo {cmd}	execute {cmd} for all buffers
:n	goto next file, base on arg list
:arga {filename}	add {filename} to arg list
:argl {files}	make a local arg copy via {files}
:args	print out all arguments

Written on April 19, 2020

Tags: Vim