neovim/CHEATSHEET.md

Neovim cheat sheet

Heavily customized. Related blog post: https://lugh.ch/neovim-lessons-learned.html

BASICS

• :che [<pluginname>] check base or plugin status
• :che lsp show LSP details
• :verbose set expandtab? check where expandtab was set last
• :Lazy package manager
• :Mason LSP management
• :TSUpdate update Tree-sitter parsers
• :ConformInfo Formatter timeout debug

NAVIGATE

Windows, splits & tabs

• Ctrl+wq close window
• Ctrl+ws split window horizontally
• Ctrl+wv split window vertically
• Ctrl+h/j/k/l move between splits
• Ctrl+w= equalize split window width and height
• Ctrl+wr swap position of two windows
• Ctrl+wT move focused split to new tab
• gt or gT switch forward/reverse between tabs

Buffers

• leader+leader lists open buffers [snipe.nvim]
• :bd close current buffer

Text

• w/e move to start/end of next word
• b move to start of previous word
• Ctrl+0 start of line
• Ctrl+$ end of line
• Ctrl+d/u scroll down/up 1/2 page keeping the cursor centered
• Ctrl+o jump to previous location (e.g. after using gg)
• Ctrl+i jump forward (after using Ctrl+o)
• s<chars> highlight jump targets [flash.nvim]

LSP, Code & Diagnostics

• Ctrl+j/k scroll down/up through LSP suggestions
• K show LSP context info
• Ctrl+o show LSP completion menu in insert mode
• gd go to definition
• gr show references of function
• grn renames all refs of the symbol under cursor
• leader+q toggle trouble.nvim
• leader+da go to next diagnostic (any severity)
• leader+dw go to next diagnostic (warning severity)
• leader+de go to next diagnostic (error severity)

Telescope

• Esc+j/k scroll down/up
• Ctrl+d/u scroll down/up in preview pane
• Ctrl+v open file in vertical split
• Ctrl+x open file in horizontal split
• Ctrl+t open file in new tab

Oil

• Ctrl+d/u bottom/top of file list
• Ctrl+p preview file
• Ctrl+v open file in vertical split
• Ctrl+x open file in horizontal split
• Ctrl+t open file in new tab

Snipe

• D close selected buffer

SELECT, DELETE AND CHANGE TEXT

Prefix the marked commands below with v to select, d for deleting or c to change.

• leader+o re-format whole file or visual [conform.nvim]
• i/I insert mode at cursor position/beginning of the line
• a/A insert mode after the current char/at end of line
• o/O insert mode a line below/above the cursor
• cc/S replace whole line
• C replace to the end of the line from current position
• D delete to the end of the line
• p/P paste yanked line below/above
• yygccp comment and copy the current line
• <prefix>$ ... to the end of the line
• <prefix>w ... to the end of current word
• <prefix>ap ... around paragraph
• <prefix>ip ... inside paragraph
• <prefix>at ... around HTML/XML tag
• <prefix>it ... inside HTML/XML tag
• <prefix>iq ... inside quotes [mini.ai]
• <prefix>aq ... around quotes [mini.ai]
• <prefix>aW ... word with dashes or underscores

Selection-only commands

• ViB Select lines inside block (useful for commenting)
• Ctrl+s context-sensitive text selection (Tree-sitter)
• Backspace reduce context-sensitive selection

GIT

• :windo diffthis open vimdiff for open splits
• :vert diffsplit <other/file> diff this file and <other/file>
• :windo diffoff to close diff view

SEARCH/OPEN

• leader+fg search text in files (also searches for text under cursor)
• leader+ff search files (respects .gitignore)
• leader+e toggle Oil file explorer
• leader+fo recently opened files
• gf open file under cursor in a new buffer
• gx open link under cursor in default browser
• * search word under cursor
• Ctrl+l remove search highlight