Neovim tips and life hacks that significantly improved my productivity
11 September, 2024
I’ve been using Neovim for a couple months now and by now have went through the entire Wiki.
I would like to share some of my most loved tricks that have really skyrocketed my productivity.
| Command | Description |
|---|
h | Move left by one character |
l | Move right by one character |
j | Move down by one line |
k | Move up by one line |
+ | Move to the next non-whitespace character on line |
- | Move to the previous non-whitespace character |
^ | Move to the first non-whitespace character |
_ | Move to the first character on the line (takes count) |
$ | Move to the last character on the line |
G | Move to the end of the file |
gg | Move to the beginning of the file |
40gg | Jump to line 40 |
% | Jump to matching parenthesis or bracket |
t{char} | Jump before the next occurrence of {char} |
f{char} | Jump to the next occurrence of {char} |
T{char} | Jump before the previous occurrence of {char} |
F{char} | Jump to the previous occurrence of {char} |
, | Repeat t, T, f, F in opposite direction |
; | Repeat t, T, f, F in same direction |
| Command | Description |
|---|
/pattern | Search forward |
?pattern | Search backward |
# | Search backward for identifier under cursor |
* | Search forward for identifier under cursor |
/pattern/e | Place cursor on last character of match |
/pattern/e+1 | Place cursor one character to the right of match |
/apple\C | Case-sensitive search |
:%s/pattern//n | Count occurrences of pattern |
/\%V | Search inside visual selection |
| Command | Description |
|---|
i | Insert at cursor |
I | Insert at start of line |
a | Append after cursor |
A | Append at end of line |
gi | Insert at last edit position |
o | Open new line below and enter insert mode |
O | Open new line above and enter insert mode |
r{char} | Replace character under cursor |
J | Join line with next one |
gJ | Join lines without inserting space |
xp | Swap two characters |
D | Delete to end of line |
Y | Yank to end of line |
C | Change to end of line |
gq | Wrap long lines |
| Command | Description |
|---|
guu | Make current line lowercase |
gUU | Make current line uppercase |
g~~ | Toggle case of current line |
gu | Operator to make text lowercase |
gU | Operator to make text uppercase |
g~ | Operator to toggle case |
| Command | Description |
|---|
yy | Yank entire line |
dd | Delete entire line |
yib | Yank inside () |
d/hello | Delete until “hello” |
d/hello/e | Delete up to and including “hello” |
dk | Delete current and previous line |
dj | Delete current and next line |
gp | Paste like p but leave cursor after |
gP | Paste like P but leave cursor after |
| Command | Description |
|---|
CTRL v | Visual block mode |
< | Dedent selected text |
> | Indent selected text |
I | Insert text at beginning of each line (block mode) |
$A | Append text at end of each line (block mode) |
o | Jump to the other end of the selection |
gv | Reselect last visual selection |
g CTRL v | Increment each line numerically |
| Command | Description |
|---|
CTRL wx | Swap windows |
CTRL wv | Split window vertically |
CTRL ws | Split window horizontally |
CTRL wq | Quit window |
CTRL w= | Equalize window sizes |
| Command | Description |
|---|
vap | Select around paragraph |
[{ | Move to previous unmatched { |
]{ | Move to next unmatched { |
[( | Move to previous unmatched ( |
]( | Move to next unmatched ( |
g; | Jump to previous insert location |
g, | Jump to next insert location |
'' | Jump to position before last jump |
| Command | Description |
|---|
CTRL r+ | Paste from system clipboard |
CTRL u | Delete all characters |
CTRL g | Next match in search results |
CTRL t | Previous match in search results |
:%norm | Apply command to every line (:%norm $ciwhello) |
:g/^#/d | Delete all comments from a Bash file |
:g/foo/s/bar/baz/g | Replace “bar” with “baz” in lines containing “foo” |
g& | Repeat last substitution |
| Command | Description |
|---|
gx | Open link under cursor |
gf | Open file under cursor |
| If unnamedplus is set, system clipboard won’t overwrite yank buffer |
| Command | Description |
|---|
CTRL g | Show filename and line count |
zz | Center cursor on screen (middle) |
zt | Cursor to top of screen |
zb | Cursor to bottom of screen |
:center | Center text |
ga | Show character info under cursor |
g? | ROT13 encode input |
CTRL a | Increment number under cursor |
CTRL x | Decrement number under cursor |
:sort u | Sort lines uniquely |
:sort n | Sort lines numerically |
<C-f> | Edit Ex command in full-page view |
_ | Move to first character on line, accepts a motion |