This is all very advanced to me. I use Home and End to go forward and back in the line, but w and b sound good to m (just wish they made more intuitive sense), also p and P.
Vim has a built-in tutorial on the motion commands and such. I don’t remember how it’s invoked, but probably something like :help tutorial. You’ll get an overview of the commands and see which ones might be useful to you right away. As I mentioned, I recommend getting the hang of them one or a few at a time, so they are incorporated in your toolbox.
Speaking of help, it’s generally useful in Vim to use :help {something} when you want to recall how something works. It has consistent naming for the help pages for various functionality, e.g. :help:s shows the page about the :s command, and there are pages for every motion command, etc. — I don’t remember the prefixes as it’s been a while since I used Vim proper, but just :help should give you an index.
Also, if you’re coding in Vim, there are ways to integrate documentation for your language, so that K would show help for the function or whatever under the cursor. Back in the day I’ve had PHP docs plugged into Vim, but it’s been a while, so idk how it’s done now. Iirc there are dumps of docs from the Dash app, which might be available as vimdocs.
This is all very advanced to me. I use Home and End to go forward and back in the line, but w and b sound good to m (just wish they made more intuitive sense), also p and P.
I should print out a ref sheet.
Vim has a built-in tutorial on the motion commands and such. I don’t remember how it’s invoked, but probably something like
:help tutorial. You’ll get an overview of the commands and see which ones might be useful to you right away. As I mentioned, I recommend getting the hang of them one or a few at a time, so they are incorporated in your toolbox.Speaking of help, it’s generally useful in Vim to use
:help {something}when you want to recall how something works. It has consistent naming for the help pages for various functionality, e.g.:help :sshows the page about the:scommand, and there are pages for every motion command, etc. — I don’t remember the prefixes as it’s been a while since I used Vim proper, but just:helpshould give you an index.Also, if you’re coding in Vim, there are ways to integrate documentation for your language, so that
Kwould show help for the function or whatever under the cursor. Back in the day I’ve had PHP docs plugged into Vim, but it’s been a while, so idk how it’s done now. Iirc there are dumps of docs from the Dash app, which might be available as vimdocs.