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.	- REPEAT THE PREVIOUS COMMAND
<C-K>[char]	- to print a digraph symbol (non-printable on keyboard) while in insert mode
K	- works like 'man' command, so uses highlighted text as the keywords

File

ZZ	- close the window and commit changes

Information [Normal mode]

<C-d>	- show the list of commands, that starts the same
<Tab>	- complete the command
<Esc>	- abort the command
<C-g>	- to show your location in a file and file status (g + <C-g)

Regular expressions

^	- beginning of the line
$	- end of the line
.	- match any single character
\[character]	- turn off the special meaning of the character

Movement [Normal mode]

h	- left
l	- right
j	- down
k	- up
$	- end of the line, 2$ - next line, 3$ ..., also <End>, <kEnd>
0	- beginning of the line, also <Home>, <kHome>
^	- first non-blank character
ENTER [link]	- goto the link
G	- goto the bottom of the file
gg	- goto the beginning of the file
[number] G	- goto the line of number
%	- when on brackets jumps on them ( -> ) works with: [], {}, ()
e	- end of this word (or next word)
w	- to the beginning of the next word.
b	- back one word (like w)
t[char]	- jump not including [char]
T[char]	- jump not including [char] reverse
f[char]	- jump including [char]
F[char]	- jump including [char] reverse
<C-y>	- Scrolling up without moving cursor
<C-e>	- Scrolling down without moving cursor

Jumping

<C-u>	- scroll you down half the screen (up you)
<C-d>	- scroll you up the screen (down you)
<C-o>	- jump back in jump-list
<C-i>	- jump forward in jump-list
<C-]>	- go to the hyperlink
<C-t>	- get back (pop the tag off)

Windows

<C-w> w	- move the cursor to the window which is down in loop
<C-w><C-w>	- same
<C-w> j	- move the cursor to the window which is down
<C-w> k	- move the cursor to the window which is up
[count]<C-w>+	- increase the count of lines by 10 in opened window
[count]<C-w>-	- decrease by count
<C-w>=	- makes all windows the same size
[count]<C-w>_	- makes the current window count lines high to count

Searching

/[sequence]	- search for the sequence and goto it (you need to put / before .*[]ˆ%/\?~$ symbols use them in find field.) Also has the search history /<Up> to search the previous request
?	- use instead of / to search from in the backward
n or /<Enter>	- search for the same phrase again
N	- search for in the opposite direction

Switching-Modes

<C-o>	- escapes INSERT to do one NORMAL-mode command, after returns to INSERT mode
ESC \ <C-[>	- goto NORMAL mode
<C-c>	- just go to NORMAL mode (commands before acts like they are in insert mode)
v	- goto VIEW mode (After pressing : you could do something with highlighted text)
V	- goto VIEW-LINE mode
R	- goto REPLACE mode from NORMAL

Edit commands [Normal mode]

Edit command: operation + [count] + motion.

Edit (Operations) [Normal mode]: " can use counts (3a!) = (a + !!!)

i	- before character (goto INSERT mode from NORMAL)
a	- after the cursor (goto INSERT mode from NORMAL)
A	- append the line (goto INSERT mode)
x	- delete the symbol
d	- delete the symbol/word
d [number] d	- delete whole line
[number] dd	- execute number of commands
u	- undo the command
U	- fix whole line
<C-r>	- redo the last change (undo undos)
r	- replace character under the cursor
R	- replace until something (goto replace mode)
~	- change the character case (inv you are on)
c	- delete the chars and goto insert mode (cw - delete the word up to the space, but dw deletes the word AND space)
c [space]	- delete the char and goto INSERT mode
c [move]	- delete the [move] and goto INSERT mode [ex. cw - rem. one word in what you stay]
cc	- same idea like with dd. (deletes whole line)
o	- open the line below (create a new line) and place you in insert mode on this line
O	- open the line upper
p	- put the line after the cursor (from vim register)
P	- put the text before the cursor
y	- yank (copy)
yy or Y	- yank the whole line
y [move]	- yank one word
[count]J	- join the lines

d3w - delete three words
3dw - delete one word three times

Motions

Can use counts before command

$ \ Shift	- to the end of the line
e	- to the end of this word
w	- to the beginning of the next word
f	- up to the symbol
b	- one word back
f<*char>	- jump on the *char forward
F<*char>	- jump on the *char backward
t<*char>	- jump up to the *char forward
T<*char>	- jump up to the *char backward

Macros

qa	- start recording macros, where a is a register [a-z] where you can put this macros
q	- finish recording macros
[*count]@<*char>	- execute macro on the char *count times

Wiki: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Macros - to hard...

File (Buffers) switching

Interesting feature when switching between files:

first start: $ nvim file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt - opens the file1.txt.

To switch the file print :next or :previous and save changes (or overload using !)

Command	Description
1<C-^>	- open file1.txt "When first load there is no alternative file before you switch anywhere
2<C-^>	- open file2.txt
3<C-^>	- open file3.txt
<C-^>	- open file2.txt (previous(alternative) file)

Marks

A mark allows you to record your current position so you can return to it later. Each file can have mark a, but only one file can have mark A.

ma	- put the mark, where 'a' is key
'a	- goto mark
d'a	- delete up to mark
y'a	- yank up to mark ...

Mark jumps default

''	- last place of the current file
'"	- the place where you were at the file before closing it
'[	- the start of the last insert
']	- the end of the last insert

Wiki: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Using_marks

Visual mode

v	- goto visual mode
V	- goto visual-line mode
<C-V>	- highlight a rectangle [goto v-block mode]
d	- delete the highlighted text
D	- delete the highlighted lines
y	- place the highlighted text in the register
Y	- place the highlighted lines in the register
c	- delete the highlighted text and goes to insert mode
C	- same but with lines
J	- join all highlighted lines in one line
gJ	- join the lines without adding spaces
>	- selects lines by one tab
<	- in reverse
=	- change indents in the text
r, R , s, S = c

Visual-Block mode

(:help v_b_r)

I	- to enter insert mode follewed by the text to insert
c	- delete the block and start as I
C	- delete text from the left edge to the end of the line
A	- append the text to the block
r[char]	- replace the selected text with a single char
<	- removes one swift
>	- add one shift to the beginning of each selected line in block

Programming

[count]<<	- shift the text to the left from NORMAL mode
[count]>>	- shift the text to the right from NORMAL mode
<C-d>	- back up one shift width
[ <C-i>	- jump to the next word that is under the cursor
gd \ gD	- highlights all the word equals that is under the cursor
%	- jump between pair symbols like {[( or jump between pair /* */ comments #ifdef, #endif, #end, #if
>%	- shift everything that is between {} in one level AND {} also
<%	- same idea
>i{	- shift everything that is between {} in one level
<i{	- same idea
<C-]>	- hyperlink jump (tag jump)
<C-t>	- go back from hyperlink jump
<C-W>]	- split the window and jump to the tag under cursor

Automatic Completion

<C-p>	- search the definition backwards
<C-n>	- search the definition forward
<Tab>	- autocomplete

Selective search <C-x> submode

<C-d>	- Macro definitions
<C-f>	- Filenames
<C-k>	- Dictionarys
<C-i>	- current files and #included files
<C-l>	- whole lines
<C-]>	- tags
<C-p>	- same as <C-p>
<C-n>	- same as <C-n>

Registers

• "[reg] [operation] - work with the data in the register

• <C-r> - while in insert mode [like "[reg]...]

Advanced shortcuts

[*type][*levels]ib	do something inside inner block
[*type][*levels]iB	do something inside curly brackets
[*type][*levels]ab	do something inside inner block with brackets
[*type][*levels]aB	do something inside inner block with brackets

• *type - i.e. 'v', 'c', 'y'
• to make selection inclusive use can use 'a' instead of 'i'
• replace 'B' and 'b' with something like '{' or '}', '(' or ')' to perform action inside them
• *levels - levels of parens up

for more details use :help text-objects