What you need know to turn you into a power vim user

End of this file you find how turn your VIM a real IDE, with navigatoin betwwen class and function.

Basic editing and moviments

| - goto begin line, b - begin word, e - end word, w - next word, $ - end file
A - start insert mode END line
I - start insert mode BEGIN of line
o - insert new line and change to insert mode
S or cc - change line
L - move to end of view port
v - visual, c - change
d - delete
y - yank/copy, p - paste, yy - yank line
i - inside, a - around, f - find
. - repeat last command or sequence
f? - find character ?
ctrl + v - VISUAL block, useful change more one line in same time. try: ctrl + v after that jjj and choise change mode using c, after change type ESC
:{NUMBERLINE} - goto line, gg - begin file, G - end file
:r filename - insert content of filename starting in cursor
lead is \

move definition, you use this keys when you need moviments too

h - left
j - bottom
k - top
l - rigth
Tab+X+ENTER - jump to next X lines
H - move to top of screen
M - movel middle of screen
L - move botton of screen
z. - put the line with the cursor at the center
zt - put the line with the cursor at the top
zb - put the line with the cursor at the bottom of the screen
J - remove break line and spaces on begin of line. Useful when remove excessive formatation

useful combinations and commands

:.,Xd - delete from current line to line X
diw or daw - delete inside/around word
db - delete cursor to previous start word, see: d|, d$, de
dG - delete cursor to end file,
dgg - delete cursor to begin file
cis - change inside sentence
ci" - change inside quote, try move cursor to middle word and type caw - change around word
c/foo - change from cursor to search foo
ctX - change from cursor to X
vap - visual around paragraph
dd - delete line
C == c$, D == d$
df? - DELETE from cursor to find character ?
vf? - SELECT text from cursor to first character ? finded
ctrl + v ...select block... + c - change text and click esc ... any combination that you can image. Try: gUaw, etc...

substituitions ... type :help usr_10.txt

:%s/findpattern/changefor/ -
%s/../../c - confirm each sustituitions
%s/../../g - global
%s/../../i - case insensive
%s/../../gic - case insensive global substituition with ask confirmation

multi-line editing using macros, steps:

qa // start recurding into 'a' register
j // move down
$ // move last char on line
i // insert mode
odd //
esc // back to command mode
j // move down
4@a // replay macro 4 times (if there are 8 more lines)

visual select

v+w, v+$ - select word or select cursor to end line
shift+v - select line

useful selections tricks

va{ - select around block
vap - select around paragraph

multi-line editing using VISUAL-BLOCK

Ctrl+v - enable viasul block select
Shift+i - insert mode
insert text...
ESC - propagate change

turn upper or lower case

gU - turn select text to upper case
gu - turn select text to lower case
g~ - InverT case
// in some cases you can use only ~, U or u to combine when another keys, example: vawU (visual around word uppercase)

folding and unfolding

\fi - enable indentation folding ! very useful
za - open/close (toggle)
zR - open all
zM - close all
zf - create folding
zfa} - create folding around of }
zc - close folding
zo - open folding
zd - delete folding

Multiple cursor plugin

// ctrl+n "select how many words you need" after that click "v" and interage with "i" or "a", etc...
Ctrl + n - select
Ctrl + p - undo select
Ctrl - x - jump select

Tabs

ctrl + t - new tab
gt - move next tab
gT - move previous tab
:tabc - close current tab
ctrl+w c - close tab or split

Move lines

ctrl + u - move line up
crtl + d - move line down

SPLIT BUFFER == file open or new file

Ctrl+w - work with buffer
Ctrl+w n - NEW horizontal buffer
Ctrl+w c - CLOSE current buffer
Ctrl+w v - NEW vertical buffer
Ctrl+w s - split current buffer
Ctrl+w p - move cursor to previous window
Ctrl+w j or k or l or j - navigate beetwew window
Ctrl+w = or '-' or '+' - equal size window, decrease increase size
ctrl + w + < or > - decrease or increse vertical split
:ls - list all buffers, first column ID buffer
:buf or :b #ID - reopen buffer
:bnext, :bprevious, :bfirst, :blast - navigate between buffers
:bdelete #ID - delete buffer
\b - list buffers
\bn - next buffer
\bp - previous buffer

###Hot tip

<Ctrl+w r - Ctrl+w - rotate window
Ctrl+w L - change position split horizontal to vertical, vertical to horizontal
\b select buffer and key Ctrl+o and choise where you wan open selected buffer

###NerdTree - Hot tip

add new file or directory via nerdTree
- press m
  - choise 'add a childnode' to add file or directory... follow instructions

navigation and listing files

using

:e . - show list files
- after find your file:
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 *o* - split windows and show file
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 *v* - split vertical and show file
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 *t* - open file new tab (use tab navigation)

 *R* - rename file directory under cursor

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 *D* - delete
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using CtrlP

ctrl + p - search file
after search file you can: ctrl+i open with horizontal split ctrl+s open vertical split
lead + p - search file with word under cursor
lead + w - search by function on ctags index
:e vim commando use a context the path where vim start running, you can manipulate de current path. :pwd - show current path :cd "....." - change current path of current window :lcd "...." - change current path all windows

Hot tip

gf - open file under cursor same window (see .vim.local instrutions for more details)
Ctrl+w f - open file under cursor split horizontal
Ctrl+w f or Ctrl+w L - open file, split horizontal, move split to vertical

Recording and playback bundle of commands, this is a powerful friend

qCHARATERNAMEMACRO - initialize record type character NAMEMACRO registry, after finish click "q"
@CHARATERNAMEMACRO - run commands previous records

Tips Plugins and hacks from vimrc

CTRL+p - find files

ctrl+v - open selected file in new vertical split
ctrl+t - open selected file in new tab
** - map to :
ctrl+f - map to /

move line to up and down

ctrl+u - up
ctrl+d - down

format json

:FormatJson - equal to type :%!python -m json-tool

format perl

:FormatPerl - equal to type :%!perltidy -q

print path current opened file

:echo @%

Usefuls Miscellaneous

,, - set paste
\z - highlight word from under cursor
SPACE - search on file
:Ack .... - search PATTERN in files from current directory and subdirectories, with possibilite open file

Align multi-line

Example:

def superMethod()
    superVar = "hello"
    anotherSuperVar = "world"
end

Select variables lines and digit:

:EasyAlign *=

This align all '=' selected

Open terminal bash on current windows

first split your windows C-w + s (if you want)
next active conqueTerm inside of splited window with C-x

Install

You need three steps to install this configuration:

clone this repository
create a .vim links
install plugins

Do it:

cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/stvkoch/powerVim.git .powerVim --recursive
ln -s ~/.powerVim  ~/.vim
ln -s ~/.powerVim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
vim +:PluginInstall +:qa

Turn VIM real IDE

You need support lua. You can check if your vim as support to lua run

:echo has('lua')

1 has support to lua, 0 no!

See this if you want reinstall your vim with support to lua https://gist.github.com/stvkoch/622a123a91b9500187fc

Install ctags indexer and turn your VIM a real PHP IDE, navigate between class and function. CTRL+] open class file on cursor like phpStorm For this you need a .ctags folder provide by powerVim.

cd projects/youProjectFolder

cp -R ~/.vim/ctags .ctags
echo ".ctags" >> .gitignore

that's it! Run vim and allways index your code in ctags database

Always you open your vim, he check if exists a .ctags/indexer and run that indexing all code via ctags feature.

Personal configuration

If you have some personal configuration, you can create ~/.vimrc.local and put there what you need.

In your project you can create ...project-root-folder/.vimrc.local and add some useful stuffs like

set path=./lib
set path=./vendor
set path=./app/controller
set path=./app/model
set path=./app/view
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.tag set filetype=javascript
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.jsx set filetype=html
...

Troubleshooting

Tagbar error:

- see in .vimrc the path of ctags configurated like 'let g:tagbar_ctag_bin...'

Vundle not installed:

- run: git clone https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/vundle