Mode

• Column edit mode: Ctrl + v switch column edit mode (visual block) , use ‘up’ and ‘down’ to choose column, I switch to insert mode, edit then Esc

• Insert Mode:

• Normal Mode:

• View Mode: v in normal mode to switch to visual mode

Moving Around

motion

• gg go to the top of the file, G go to the bottom of the file ,zz make the current line to the center.

• { & } move by paragraph

• ( & ), [ & ] move by parentesis and square bracket

• vf_ & vt_ move to the next _, first one will include search key and second one will stop before the key

• - Go to first non-space character in last line, + in next line

Mapping

nmap <C + L> : <C + W> <C + L>

AutoScript

TBC

Productive

• %s\old\new\g global replace, %s\old\new\gc replace with confirmation

• the silver search and ag-vim could help to search keyword in vim, it’s much faster than the grep

  configure:

  usage: :Ag KEY_WORD ./**/*.php

• YouCompleteMe

Plugin

• Pathogen use git clone command to get the source code

• Vunble use .vimrc to config and run :PluginInstall

• Some useful plugins: ctrlP, nerdtree, airline, syntastic

Multple File Editing

• :vsp slip screen vertically

• ctrl + w and ctrl + h swap the slip, so we could add mapping like this:

• :bn, :bp, :b1, :b2, :b3 change buffer

• ctrl + ^ swap buffer

• Open multiple files

$ vim *.php

• plugin nerdtree: help to show files in folders

• plugin controlP help to quick search by file name

• plugin airline help to organize tab

• plugin vinegar help you to get files in current directory

Linting

• plugin Syntastic help to manager the linting checker

• :SyntasticCheck enable the linting

• :SyntasticToggle switch from the passive and active mode

• :SyntasticInfo check the current checkers.

Appendix

A very simple reference.

My config files on Gist.