neovim/CHEATSHEET.md

Neovim cheat sheet

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

BASICS

• :checkhealth [<pluginname>] check base or plugin status
• :checkhealth vim.lsp show details of LSP attached to buffer
• :verbose set expandtab? check where expandtab has been set last
• :Lazy show package manager TUI
• :Mason show LSP management TUI
• :TSUpdate update all Tree-sitter parsers
• :ConformInfo useful to debug why a formatter times out

NAVIGATING

Windows, splits & tabs

• 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
• gt or gT switch forward/reverse between tabs

Buffers

• leader+leader lists open buffers in snipe.nvim
• In snipe.nvim popup: Hit D to close the selected buffer
• :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 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)
• s<chars> highlight jump targets w/ flash.nvim

LSP, Code & Diagnostics

• Ctrl+j/k scroll down/up through LSP suggestions
• K show LSP context info
• gd go to definition
• gr show references of function
• grn renames all refs of the symbol under cursor
• leader+q 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

• ↓ or Ctrl+n scroll down (next) file list
• ↑ or Ctrl+p scroll up (previous) file list
• Ctrl+d/u scroll down/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

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

EDITING

Code editing

• leader+o re-format whole file or visual w/ conform.nvim
• i insert mode at cursor position
• I insert mode at beginning of line
• a/A insert mode after the current char/at end of line
• o/O insert mode a line below/above the cursor
• cw replace the current word
• cc replace whole line
• C replace to the end of the line
• yy copy the current line
• yygccp comment and copy the current line
• yap "yank-around-paragraph"
• yip "yank-inside-paragraph"
• yaW copy word w/ dashes/underscores
• p/P paste yanked line below/above
• :windo diffthis open vimdiff for open splits
• :vert diffsplit <other/file> diff this file and <other/file>
• :windo diffoff to close diff view
• ciq change inside quotes w/ mini.ai
• caq change around quotes w/ mini.ai

SELECTING

Visual mode

• v at cursor position
• V line mode
• Ctrl+v block mode
• vap "visual-select-around-paragraph"
• vip "visual-select-inside-paragraph"
• ViB Select lines inside block (useful for commenting)

Code selection

• Ctrl+s context-sensitive text selection w/ Tree-sitter
• Backspace reduce context-sensitive selection

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