joplin-notes/joplin notion extension/Web Development/Neovim/Basics 3.md

Basics 3

• cursor location <C-g> to show location in file and file status. It means 'Ctrl+G'. gg is used to to start of file like using Ctrl+Home in gui editors G for end of file To go to specific line number <line_number>G. Eg: for line number 123 type 123G.

• Search command To search word type /<word>. To search error type /error. Then type n to go to next search and N to go to opposite one. / is used to search in direction from up to down. To search in direction from down to up use ?. Note: To remove highlighting of previous search type :let @/ = "" or use :noh Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/657447/vim-clear-last-search-highlighting To go back to where you came from press <C-o>. (keep <Ctrl> pressed down while pressing the letter o). Repeat to go back further. <C-i>{normal} goes forward.

• Matching parenthesis search Type % to find a matching ),], or }. Place the cursor on parenthesis For eg on ( tree (they r here [done] ) Then type %. it will move to ) . Now type % again and it will move back to (.

• Substitute command Type :s/old/new/g to substitute "new" for "old". Move the cursor to line where subtitution needed to be take place. If g is not used then only first occurence will be substituted instead of all occurences of current line. :201,204s/old/new/g : replace old with new from line 201 to 204 For whole file %s/old/new/g For whole file but with prompt %s/old/new/gc

• Executing external commands :!ls or :!pwd

• Selecting text to write To start selecting text press v then move cursor right and down to area u want ti selected. To finish selecting a text type colon : '<,'> will appear now just type w and file name where u want to be saved '<,'>w Test.txt. Now selected text will be saved in filename 'Test.txt'

• Retrieving and merging file Move cursor to desired line and type :r TEST :This will copy contents of file TEST to current position :r !ls : This will copy output of commands ls to current position