Few customized (Neo)vim keybindings

Published on January 05, 2023

I am sharing here few keybindings that helped me daily.

As you know, defining a keybinding in vim is as simple as adding this line of in your vimrc or init.lua:

modemap key command # for vimrc

vim.keymap.set( 'mode', 'key', 'command') # for init.lua

# where:
# mode is n (for normal), i (for insert), v (for visual)
# key is your keypress
# command is the command to be executed by vim

Take care of your eyes

Adding zz to some default commands allow the current line to be automatically placed in the middle of the screen. This greatly reduces the fatigue on the eyes and helps finding things easily.

key	command	action
j	jzz	move down one line
k	kzz	move up one line
n	nzz	jump to the next search match
N	Nzz	jump to the previous search match

Work on your files easily

For these ones I can’t share all my personal keybindings but here are few that shorten long commands and that I use quite often:

command	action
:so	reload vim config on the fly
:History	open a list of previously opened files
:%s//g	write the replace command so you only have to
	type the text to be replaced (to be used in normal/insert mode)
:s//g	write the replace command so you only have to
	type the text to be replaced (to be used in visual mode)

Makes visual keybindings act as the delete/yank ones

There is certainly a good reason why hitting vv or V doesn’t act like dd, yy, or D and Y but that confuses me. So I’ve made this happen:

key	command	action
vv	0v$	select the entire line
V	v$	select the end of the line

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