neovim notes

commands

documentation for commands can be found here. currently using the space bar as <leader>

from normal mode

purpose	command
save and quit	shift+z, shift+z
save without quitting	:w
quit without saving	shift+z, shift+q
insert mode (equivalent to standard mode of other text editors)	i
search forward	/thing ur searching for+enter
search backward	?thing ur searching for+enter
go to next occurrence of last search	/+enter or n
go to previous occurrence of last search	?+enter or N
find and replace on current line	:s/pattern/replace/g
repeat last substitution on current line	&
find and replace in current file	:%s/pattern/replace/g
find last search and replace in current file	:%s//replace/g
undo	u
go to top of file	gg
go to bottom of file	G
select all text in a file	ggVG
paste into line below	p
delete selection	d
delete current line	dd
move current line down	ddp
move current line up	ddkP
copy current line/selection	yy
insert line above	O
insert line below	o
go to the beginning of the current line and switch to insert mode	I
go to the end of the current line and switch to insert mode	A
select the word under the cursor	viw
open link under the cursor	gx
move one word right	w
move one word left	b

from visual mode

enter visual mode by using the mouse to select something, or by pressing v (or V to select whole line)

purpose	command
toggle commenting of selecting lines	highlight lines, then gc
paste into selection	p

other

abbreviation	meaning
<.*>	keystroke
<CR>	enter (carriage return)
<C>	control
<S>	shift

• the following characters need to be escaped when searching: / ~

configuring

using lazyvim. to configure lazyvim or install a new plugin, make a new lua file in ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins. the format should look like

return {
	-- paste whatever stuff the author says to paste
	-- for using lazy.vim
}

for example, to make lazyvim use catppucin colors with a transparent background, run nvim ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/theme.lua and paste

return {
  {
    "LazyVim/LazyVim",
    opts = {
      colorscheme = "catppuccin",
    },
  },
  {
    "catppuccin",
    opts = {
      transparent_background = true,
    },
  },
}

or to install markdown-plus.nvim, run nvim ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/markdown-plus.lua and paste

return {
  {
    "yousefhadder/markdown-plus.nvim",
    ft = "markdown", -- Load on markdown files by default
    config = function()
      require("markdown-plus").setup({
        -- Configuration options (all optional)
        enabled = true,
        features = {
          list_management = true, -- Enable list management features
          text_formatting = true, -- Enable text formatting features
          headers_toc = true, -- Enable headers and TOC features
          links = true, -- Enable link management features
        },
        keymaps = {
          enabled = true, -- Enable default keymaps
        },
        filetypes = { "markdown" }, -- Filetypes to enable the plugin for
      })
    end,
  },
}

plugin sources:

• awesome-neovim