Vim

Very good documentation → vim tips and tricks: registers

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Clipboard

• "*y copy current line/selection to clipboard register

Use :set paste to avoid autoindent when pasting snippets. Then revert back using :set nopaste.

Registers

Very handy when you want to get back what you've --deleted--

• :reg to see all of them
• "3p to paste content to 3^rd register

Buffers

• :ls will show your open buffers
• :b will open the specified buffer in the current pane.

Search and replace

• %s: all lines
• s: current line onlye
• a,bs: line a to b (inclusive)
• .,$s: current line (.) to end
• .,+ns: current line (.) to n line below

Check out more examples

Autocompletion

• C-n: Display autocomplete

Editing a stream

:! find . | vim - in a shell get content and send it to vim then :w filename to save the file

Git (Vim Fugitive)

• Gdiff view diff
• Gstatus view status:
  • - add/reset file
  • Enter view the file current window
  • C invoke :Gcommit
  • C-p and C-n to move between file
• Gwrite to stage current file
• GBrowser to view on Github
• Glog display all commit for current file
  • \[q previous
  • \]q next
  • Do not forget :cw for quick view
• Glog -- display all commits
• Ggrep finds

See complete list

Regex

Regex cheatsheet