joplin-notes/joplin notion extension/Web Development/Neovim/Basics 4.md

Basics 4

• Open a line To insert empty line below cursor and toggle insert mode type o To insert empty line above cursor and toggle insert mode type O(capital o)

• Append command Normally when we insert text, its inserted before the cursor so in the word say li. If cursor at i. and we press i then type q then we have lqi so using a first cursor is moved one character right and then goes to insert mode so if after using a we type q, then we have liq.

• Replace Mode Toggled by R(capital R). if it is on word say the and cursor is at beginning ie T then when we type Say then it will become Say not SayThe. NOTE: Replace mode is like Insert mode, but every typed character replaces an existing character

• Copy and paste Highlight the text to be copied. We can do this by going to visual mode by pressing v and moving cursor to select text. Press Esc to escape visual mode. Press y to copy and p tp paste. y here stands for yank p stands for put

• Set option To alter some settings in nvim when searching to ignore case type :set ic To turn off ignore case type :set noic To toggle ignorecase setting :set invic NOTE: If you want to ignore case for just one search command, use \c in the phrase: /ignore\c

• Switch between windows <C-w><C-w> means Ctrl+w 2 times

• Creating startup script Neovim is a very configurable editor. You can customise it any way you like. To start using more features create an "init.vim" file.

  1. Start editing the "init.vim" file.

     :call mkdir(stdpath('config'),'p') :exe 'edit' stdpath('config').'/init.vim'

  2. Write the file with: :w

• Auto Completion When typing any command to get the listed list of commands begining with whatever typed , press <C-d>. Now press tab to auto-complete it. Eg: If we type :e then pressing Ctrl+d witll list commands starting from e and pressing tab will autocomplete with first result

• Switching between files When u have opened nvim in folder and that folder contains some files then use the relative path to access them by :e main.c or :e Makefile