nvim-commands.md

NeoVim Commands

Yes, that seems like a lot of commands, but trust me, it's all about muscle memory ;) Use it - and you will learn it - way faster as you think by now.

For me it was way easier to write the commands on Post-Its and place them on the lower side of my screen, so I've seen them all the time. If you like to see how I structure them, take a look here.

I use one of these configurable split keyboards, but my layout is very near to the US ANSI layout.
If you want to try it, there is a cheap (but very good) one from Cherry for less than twenty bugs. The Cherry KC 1000 in US ANSI or EU(USA+ €-Symbol).

If something doesn't work, check if your caps lock is activated or not :)

Neovim Modes

Neovim has different modes to get your actions done.
The mode where you start is called Normal Mode.

• Normal Mode
  • Used to navigate around, copy and paste (yank and put in Neovim language) things, etc.
• Insert Mode
  • Used to write like in every other text editor.
• Visual Mode
  • Used to mark text. It is divided by three different use cases:
    • Visual Mode (for marking characters)
    • Visual Line Mode (for marking whole lines)
    • Visual Block Mode (for marking blocks of characters)
• Command Line Mode
  • Write Neovim and terminal commands

Entry point for all modes is always Normal Mode.

Wording

In Neovim copy is named 'yank' and paste is named 'put'.

Explanation

If you see something like <Leader>, that's a special key in Neovim. Regularly it is the \ key. In this configuration it is mapped to the space key.

In the column Location you will somethimes see Regular Neovim. This means, I didn't have created a special key mapping. Neovim provides this function by default.
For all other contents of this column, I provide the file where I've defined the key mapping. Feel free to change them if you like.

The most of the commands you can type numbers before, to run the command n times.

Commands

Enter Modes

Action	Command	Location
Enter normal mode:	esc	Regular Neovim
Enter insert mode before char:	i	Regular Neovim
Enter insert mode after char:	a	Regular Neovim
Enter insert mode at start of line:	I	Regular Neovim
Enter insert mode at end of line:	A	Regular Neovim
Enter visual mode:	v	Regular Neovim
Enter visual line mode:	v v	Regular Neovim
Enter visual block mode:	v b	keymaps.lua
Enter command line mode:	:	Regular Neovim

Navigate Around

To navigate around, enter Normal Mode.

Action	Command	Location
Down:	j	Regular Neovim
Up:	k	Regular Neovim
Left:	h	Regualr Neovim
Right:	l	Regular Neovim
Go to character:	<Leader> c	hop.lua
Go to word:	<Leader> w	hop.lua
Go to pattern:	<Leader> p	hop.lua
Go to line (visible part of file):	<Leader> l	hop.lua
Next word:	w	Regular Neovim
Previous word:	b	Regular Neovim
End of line:	$	Regular Neovim
Start of line:	0	Regular Neovim
Top of file:	g g	Regualar Neovim, telescope.lua
Bottom of file:	G	Regular Neovim, telescope.lua
Go to line (whole file):	: <line number>	Regular Neovim
Go to split below:	J	keymaps.lua
Go to split above:	K	keymaps.lua
Go to left split:	H	keymaps.lua
Go to right split:	L	keymaps.lua
Go to project tree (explore tree):	<Leader> e t	nvim-tree.lua
Go to actual file in project tree:	<Leader> s f t	nvim-tree.lua
Scroll actual line to top:	T	keymaps.lua
Scroll actual line to center:	C	keymaps.lua
Scroll actual line to bottom:	B	keymaps.lua
Scroll down:	ctrl j	keymaps.lua, lspsaga.lua, nvim-cmp.lua, telescope.lua
Scroll up:	ctrl k	keymaps.lua, lspsaga.lua, nvim-cmp.lua, telescope.lua
Scroll one page up:	ctrl p u	keymaps.lua
Scroll one page down:	ctrl p d	keymaps.lua
Enter insert mode at start of line:	I	Regular Neovim
Enter insert mode at end of line:	A	Regular Neovim
Go to matching brace:	%	Regular Neovim
Go to first char of line:	^	Regular Neovim
Go to last char of line:	g _	Regular Neovim
Go to middle of screen:	M	Regular Neovim

Searching

Action	Command	Location
Search:	/ <search pattern>	Regular Neovim
Next occurance:	n	Regular Neovim
Previous occurance:	N	Regular Neovim
Quit highlighting of search:	<Leader> q h	keymaps.lua
Find file:	<Leader> f f	telescope.lua
Find text in files:	<Leader> f t	telescope.lua
Show recent files:	<Leader> r f	telescope.lua
Find word/marked pattern under cursor:	*	Regular Neovim

Editing

Action	Command	Location
Delete character:	x	Regular Neovim
Delete word:	d i w	Regular Neovim
Delete line:	d d	Regular Neovim
Delete marked:	d	Regular Neovim
Delete till end of line:	D	Regular Neovim
Undo last action:	u	Regular Neovim
Redo last action:	U	keymaps.lua
Comment out/in line(s):	<Leader> /	comment.lua
Comment out/in selection:	<Leader> / s	comment.lua
Save file (auto save is activated too):	: w	Regular Neovim
Force save file:	: w !	Regular Neovim
Save and close file:	Z Z	Regular Neovim
Quit file:	: q	Regular Neovim
Force quit file:	: q !	Regular Neovim
Open Markdown preview:	<Leader> m d o	peek.lua
Quit Markdown preview:	<Leader> m d q	peek.lua
Open PlantUML preview:	<Leader> u m l o	plantuml-previewer.lua
Save PlantUML as .png:	<Leader> u m l s	plantuml-previewer.lua
Add ; at end of line:	; ;	keymaps.lua
Add , at end of line:	, ,	keymaps.lua
Add : at end of line:	: :	keymaps.lua
Join next line:	<Leader> j l	keymaps.lua
Join object:	<Leader> j o	splitjoin.lua
Split object:	<Leader> s o	splitjoin.lua
Align left of char:	<Leader> a l	lion.lua
Align right of char:	<Leader> a r	lion.lua
Repeat last command:	.	Regular Neovim
Surround with ( ):	( (	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with { }:	{ {	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with [ ]:	[ [	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with " ":	" "	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with ' ':	' '	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with ``:	` `	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with < >:	< >	nvim-surround.lua
Surround with HTML tag:	s w t	nvim-surround.lua
Change surrounding HTML tag:	c s t	nvim-surround.lua
Delete surrounding HTML tag:	d s t	nvim-surround.lua
Delete surroundings:	d s <closing-sign>	nvim-surround.lua
Change surroundings:	c s <old> <new>	nvim-surround.lua
Yank:	y	Regular Neovim
Yank line:	y y	Regular Neovim
Put:	p	Regular Neovim
Insert new line below:	o	Regular Neovim
Move (selected) part up:	shift tab	keymaps.lua
Move (selected) part down:	tab	keymaps.lua
Scroll preview up:	ctrl p u	telescope.lua
Scroll preview down:	ctrl p d	telescope.lua
Show completion suggestions:	ctrl c	nvim-cmp.lua
Confirm completion:	ctrl <Leader>	keymaps.lua, nvim-cmp.lua
Quit completion suggestions:	ctrl q	keymaps.lua, nvim-cmp.lua
Next item in completion list:	tab	keymaps.lua, nvim-cmp.lua
Previous item in completion list:	shift tab	keymaps.lua, nvim-cmp.lua
Switch case of char/selected:	~	Regular Neovim

Project Tree

Action	Command	Location
Close node:	c n	nvim-tree.lua
Rename:	r	nvim-tree.lua
File information:	i	nvim-tree.lua
Open:	enter	nvim-tree.lua
Open file in vertical split:	v	nvim-tree.lua
Open file in horizontal split:	h	nvim-tree.lua
Yank name:	y	nvim-tree.lua
Yank relative path:	Y	nvim-tree.lua
Copy:	c	nvim-tree.lua
Cut:	x	nvim-tree.lua
Paste:	p	nvim-tree.lua
To parent node:	P	nvim-tree.lua
New item:	n i	nvim-tree.lua
Delete:	d	nvim-tree.lua
Move to bin:	B	nvim-tree.lua
Collapse all:	C	nvim-tree.lua
Expand all:	E	nvim-tree.lua
To top sibling:	T S	nvim-tree.lua
To bottom sibling:	T B	nvim-tree.lua
To previous sibling:	K	nvim-tree.lua
To next sibling:	J	nvim-tree.lua

Window Management

Splits

Action	Command	Location
New vertical split:	<Leader> v	keymaps.lua
Grow split vertically:	<Leader> g v	keymaps.lua
Shrink split vertically:	<Leader> s v	keymaps.lua
New horizontal split:	<Leader> h	keymaps.lua
Grow split horizontally:	<Leader> g h	keymaps.lua
Shrink split horizontally:	<Leader> s h	keymaps.lua
Equalize size of splits:	<Leader> e s	keymaps.lua
Max-/minimize split:	<Leader> m	windows.lua
Terminal in new vertical split:	<Leader> t v	keymaps.lua
Terminal in new horizontal split:	<Leader> t h	keymaps.lua

Tabs

Action	Command	Location
New tab:	<Leader> n t	keymaps.lua
Quit tab:	<Leader> q t	keymaps.lua
To right tab:	<Leader> t r	keymaps.lua
To left tab:	<Leader> t l	keymaps.lua