NeoVim Cheat Sheet

Every NeoVim set up is personal, I am using my website it document how I have it set up - not universally true. :)

Basics

• Normal mode: Esc
• Beginners guide: :Tutor
• Edit setup: :e $MYVIMRC
• Quit: :q! or :wq (with save)
• Delete letter: x
• Insert text: i / a
• Delete text: d motion
  • Everything deleted goes into a buffer for put.
• Delete whole line: dd
• Undo: u
• Undo all changes to one line: U
• Put: p/P (after/before)
• replace: r/R (R is for multiple characters)
• Change: c motion (deletes and puts you in edit mode)
• Move to line number: number G (defaults to end of file)
• Move to start of file: gg
• Search: / search word (n/N to go through options)
• Back: C-o
• Forward: C-i
• Switch to match parenthesis: %
• Replace: :s/old/new/g
• Replace between line number n,m : :n,ms/old/new/g
• Replace in whole file: :%s/old/new/g(c) (c allows you to decide)
• External commands: :!
• Save as: :w
• Visual selector: v
• Retrieve: :r
• Open/insert new line: o/O (below/above)
• Copy: y motion (use in visual mode too)
• Set an option: :set
• Edit different file: :e

Motions

• Start of the next word: w
• End of current word: e
• End of line: $
• Start of line: 0
• Use numbers to do it multiple times.

Lazy

• Directory tree: leader e
  • Help: ?
  • New file: a
• Search in files: leader s g
• Switch colour scheme: leader u C
• Search key maps: leader s k
• Search and replace: leader s r
  • accept: leader s r
  • reject: dd
  • accept all: leader R
• Lazygit: leader gg