cdlavacudeg / nvim

Vim Tutorial for Beginners# Nvim from Scratch

Instalation

sudo apt install neovim

Unistall configurations

rm -rf ~/.config/nvim rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim rm -rf ~/.cache/nvim

Ubuntu Stable

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/stable sudo apt-get update

Commands

• nvim {name_file} open the file and if it does'nt exist create a blank one.
• :q quit vim
• :q! quit and dismiss all the changes
• :!{command} execute a terminal command
• :wq Write and quit
• :bd Quit buffer

Modes

• : starts a command (normal mode)
• ESC get out of the last mode
• 'i` enters the insert mode, you can insert text before the cursor
• `a' insert mode after the cursor
• o insert mode on a new line
• I insert mode beginning of the line
• A insert mode end of the line
• O insert mode new line above
• v visual mode
• V visual line mode (select by lines)
• Ctrl + v visial block mode
• d delete selection
• dd delete whole line
• D delete from the cursor trhough the end
• y copy
• yy copy the whole line
• p paste
• P paste above the line or before the cursor
• c change
• cc Insert mode to change all of the line
• r Replace mode

Key bidings

• u In normal mode, undid the action
• {number}u normal mode, number of undos back
• ctrl+r normal mode, redo
• {number}ctrl+r nomal mode, number of redos
• w jump to the next word
• W jump to the next word ignoring special characters
• b jump backwards
• B jump backwards ignoring special characters
• dw delete next word
• {number}dw delete number of words
• {number}db delete number of words backwards
• diw delete in a word
• ciw change in a word
• d0 delete every thing to the start
• d$ delete every thing to the end
• yiw yank in a word, copy the word

Useful in codding

• ci{simbol} change innter text of the simbol
• . repeat the last command that you execute

Move

• JKLH optional arrows
• arrow number move the cursor number of times on the direction of the arrow
• e end of the word
• 0 Begin of the line
• $ end of the line
• % jump to the end/start of a simbol (){}....
• t{simbol} jump position before the simbol
• T{simbol} jump backwards before the simbol
• f{simbol} (find) jump to position of the simbol
• F{simbol} jump backwards to position of the simbol
• gg Jump begining of the file
• G jump to the end of the file
• {number}G jump to the number line
• :{number} jump to the number line

Window

• :vsplit Vertical split
• :split Horizontal split

Intermediate features

Indentation

• >> Indentation to the rigth
• << Indentation to the left
• == Automatic indentation
• gg=G Automatic indentation from the begining through the end

Searching

• :/{word} search word
• n next word
• N backward jump
• # move up with the word selected (visual mode)
• * move down with the word selected (visual mode)

Replacing

• :%s/{word}/{newWord}/g replace all the occurences of word to newWord
• :s/{word}/{newWord}/g replace occurences of word on a selected text

Marking locations

• m{caracter} mark a place on the code with the caracter alias
• '{caracter} go to the place
• zz center the code

Macros and registers

• :reg see the registeris
• "{registerNumber}p choose a register and paste it
• {registerNumber}yy:reg overwrite register on register number with new command
• q{caracter} record a macro -> q quit macro recording`
• @{caracter} execute the macro

Configuration

settings permanent create a file at vim ~/.config/nvim/init.lua

create folder for configurations on lua/{user}

Links

• How to do 90% of What Plugins do

• Nvim From Scrath

• Awesome Nvim