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:

1. qa // start recurding into 'a' register
2. j // move down
3. $ // move last char on line
4. i // insert mode
5. odd //
6. esc // back to command mode
7. j // move down
8. 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

1. Ctrl+v - enable viasul block select
2. Shift+i - insert mode
3. insert text...
4. 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:

•  *o* - split windows and show file
  

•  *v* - split vertical and show file
  

•  *t* - open file new tab (use tab navigation)
  

•  *R* - rename file directory under cursor
  

•  *D* - delete
  

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