neovim/CHEATSHEET.md

Neovim command and keybind cheat sheet

Some of these are plain Vim commands, others are specific to Neovim.

BASICS

• Space leader key
• :checkhealth [<pluginname>] check base or status
• :verbose set expandtab? check where expandtab has been set last
• :Lazy show package manager UI
• :Lazy restore revert plugins to the state reflected in lazy-lock.json
• :Mason show Mason UI
• :TSUpdate update all treesitter parsers
• :TSModuleInfo show installed treesitter parsers
• :LspInfo show currently attached LSP client details
• :ConformInfo useful to debug why a formatter times out

NAVIGATING

Tabs

• Ctrl+t open a file in e.g. a Telescope finder in a new tab
• gt or gT switch between open tabs (forward/reverse direction)

Windows/splits

• Ctrl+wq close window
• Ctrl+ws split window horizontally
• Ctrl+wv split window vertically
• Ctrl+<h/j/k/l> move between split windows
• Ctrl+w= equalize split window width and height
• Ctrl+wr swap position of two windows
• Ctrl+wT move active split window to new tab

Buffers

• Space+Space shows buffers sorted by last used (via Telescope buffers)
• :bd close current buffer
• :bn go to next buffer
• :bp go to previous buffer

Code

• w move to start of next word (ignores punctuation due to remap)
• e move to end of next word (ignores punctuation due to remap)
• b move to start of previous word (ignores punctuation due to remap)
• Ctrl+0 start of line
• Ctrl+$ end of line
• Ctrl+d scroll down 1/2 page while keeping the cursor centered
• Ctrl+u scroll up 1/2 page while keeping the cursor centered
• Ctrl+o jump to location you were before (e.g. after using gg)
• Ctrl+i jump back to location you were before (after using Ctrl+o)
• f<char> jump forward to <char>
• F<char> jump backwards to <char>
• t<char> jump forward just before <char>
• T<char> jump backwards just before <char>
• ; jump to next occurence of (same line only)
• , jump to previous occurence of (same line only)

LSP

• Ctrl+n/p scroll down/up through LSP suggestions
• Ctrl+l accept selected suggestion
• gd go to definition

Diagnostics

• gd go to definition
• leader+qq toggle trouble.nvim quickfix list
• 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 windows

• ↓ or Ctrl+n scroll down (next) file list
• ↑ or Ctrl+p scroll up (previous) file list
• Ctrl+d scroll down in preview pane
• Ctrl+u scroll up in preview pane
• Ctrl+/ help
• Ctrl+v open file in vertical split
• Ctrl+x open file in horizontal split
• Ctrl+t open file in new tab
• Ctrl+q send all items to quickfix list
• Alt+q send selected items to quickfix list

EDITING

Code editing

• leader+i re-indent whole file
• leader+o re-format whole file or visual with conform.nvim
• i insert mode at cursor position
• I insert mode at the beginning of the line
• a insert mode one character after the current one
• A insert mode at the end of the line
• o insert mode a line below the cursor
• O insert mode a line above the cursor
• s delete character and replace (substitute) it
• cw replace the current word
• cc replace whole line
• C replace to the end of the line
• yy copy (yank) the current line
• p paste yanked line below
• P paste yanked line above
• "3p redo (put) e.g. your third last delete source

Visual mode

• v at cursor position
• V line mode
• Ctrl+v block mode

SEARCH/OPEN

• leader+fg search text in files (also searches for text under cursor)
• leader+ff search files (respects .gitignore)
• leader+e toggles 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 marked word