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
• :so Source file
• :checkhealth check base and all plugins
• :checkhealth <pluginname> check for problems of a plugin
• :verbose set expandtab? check where expandtab has been set last

Lazy

• :Lazy show package manager UI
• :Lazy restore revert plugins to the state reflected in lazy-lock.json

Mason

• :Mason show Mason UI

Treesitter

• :TSUpdate update all parsers
• :TSModuleInfo show installed parsers

LSP

• :LspInfo show currently attached LSP client details

NAVIGATION

Tabs

Use buffers in situations where

• 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)

Window/split

• 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

Buffer

• 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+d scroll down 1/2 page while keeping the cursor centered
• Ctrl+u scroll up 1/2 page while keeping the cursor centered

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

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

• leader+fg search text in files (also searches for text under cursor)
• leader+ff search files (respects .gitignore)
• leader+e file browser (disregards .gitignore)
• leader+fo recently opened files