My personal vi cheatsheet

Listen my favorite Vim shortcuts and commands.

Global commands

File handling

gf - edit file under cursor gx - open file under cursor

Insert and jump

gi - jump to last edit and switch to insert mode gI - insert at the beginning of the line gv - go to visual mode and use last selection you made

My .vimrc

" enable filetype detection:
filetype on
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on " file type based indentation

set encoding=utf-8
set expandtab
set tabstop=2

" Status bar
set laststatus=2

" Last line
set showmode
set showcmd

 " netrw
 let g:netrw_banner = 0
 let g:netrw_liststyle = 3
 let g:netrw_browse_split = 4
 let g:netrw_winsize = 25
 let g:netrw_altv = 1
" augroup ProjectDrawer
"   autocmd!
"   autocmd VimEnter * :Vexplore
" augroup END

" in makefiles, don't expand tabs to spaces, since actual tab characters are
" needed, and have indentation at 8 chars to be sure that all indents are tabs
" (despite the mappings later):
autocmd FileType make set noexpandtab shiftwidth=8 softtabstop=0