I’ve been using Vim heavily in the last two month. In order to not waste a lot of time looking up a certain feature or key combination, I came up with the idea to create a cheatsheet page for that.

So here it is. I hope you’ll find something useful here too ;)

CLI

• vim +PluginInstall open Vim and run command

Splits

• Move split window:
  • <c-w> H left
  • <c-w> J down
  • <c-w> K up
  • <c-w> L right

QuickFix list

QuickFix list contains the list of items. For example, if you use YouCompleteMe to find all the variable references, the result is populated into the QuickFix list. The following commands are used to manage the list:

• :copen open the list
• :cclose close the list
• :cnext go to the next item
• :cprev go to the previous item
• :colder open the previous content of QuickFix (yes, it has history)
• :cnewer open the next context of QuickFix

Tabs

• gt go to the next tab
• gT go to the previous tab
• 5gt go to tab 5
• <c-w> T open current buffer in the new tab
• :tabedit open file for editing in a new tab

Diff

• :diffget obtain changes from the other file
• :diffput apply changes to the other file

Folds

• Go to:
  • zk the previous fold
  • zj the next fold
• zm fold one level more
• zM close all folds
• zr reduce folding by one level
• zR open all folds
• zc close one fold under the cursor
• zC close all folds under the cursor recursively
• zo open one fold under the cursor
• zO open all folds under the cursor recursively

Positioning in the file

• Position the current line in:
  • zt the top of the window
  • zz the middle of the window
  • zb the bottom of the window

CtrlSF

• <c-c> stop the search
• t open file in a new tab
• T open file in a new tab, but keep focus on CtrlSF
• M switch view mode (horizontal or vertical)

vim-signify

• [c go to the previous change
• ]c go to the next change