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Some Cool Vim Commands That I use a lot

  • # on any word will search through all the words in that document(but backwards I don't know the other command to search forward).

  • %s/pattern/change/g is like simple search replace like in other

  • In nvim you can do :set icm=split. Now this is very useful while doing search and replace as it provides a small split which showcases all the words in the buffer that should be replaced

  • J concatanates the next line with current line.

  • :set paste puts vim in paste mode. Check more by doing :h 'paste' You can add this particular line in your .vimrc to paste stuff set pastetoggle=<F11>. But why not just use normal ctrl-shift-v that terminal provides ? Well this may end up doing auto indents as vim interprets all those text. For a better explanation check :h paste

  • You can have mouse support in vim by just doing set mouse=a

  • You can also remove statusline (if u don't want it for some reason) by doing :set laststatus=-

Surviving with netrw

Netrw is great. Atleast for most of the needs. I don't really need the good looking trees so I am fine with any tree. And netrw is faster than the other tree plugins.

So in netrw the defaults are bit non-vimish but one can easily get hang of them. for example one can do % inside netrw and then use that to create new file. Similarly there is D for deleting a file or directory and d for new directory.

Also one can do :Lex to toggle left-explorer at left side of screen and :Lex! at rightside

" This stops the show of that stupid banner
let g:netrw_banner = 0
" netrw has liststyle types which you can search in \:help netrw\
let g:netrw_liststyle = 2
" If you have wildignore set
let g:netrw_list_hide = &wildignore
" size of lex window
let g:netrw_winsize = 25

The minimum that every one should know.

  • Please do vimtutor. It's really good.
  • Beside vim tutor something's about configs. Most of the begineers don't know how to use it.
    • There is .vimrc file for normal vim and .config/nvim/init.vim for nvim
    • In these files u can add ur personal settings for vim. Some simple settings that I recommend are :
" I Hate errorbells and everyone does
set noerrorbells

" A menu in command line
set wildmenu

" If nothing works mouse works
set mouse=a

" These are normal tab settings
set smartindent
set expandtab
set tabstop=2
set softtabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2

set nu
set nowrap
set hlsearch
set smartcase

" All these 4 go together
set noswapfile
set nobackup
set undodir=~/.nvim/undodir
set undofile

" I like seeing the line highlighted
set cursorline

" Signs in signcolumn
set signcolumn=yes
" Incremental search see `:h incsearch`
set incsearch

" this one is gold scrolls down if u are above 8 lines
set scrolloff=8

" Show me all the buffers and don't ask me to close them when I want to switch
set hidden

set formatoptions-=cro
set t_Co=256

" For better Coding experience
set colorcolumn=80

" Good command
set icm=split

This are some important sets.