Some Notes on Vim

Some notes on Vim window management, Tab Management and Other Stuffsa..

Window Management

a window in Vim is the viewport for a buffer. following are a few useful window management command:

Key Binding	Action	Command
<C-w> o	close all windows except the current one	:on, :only
<C-w q	close focused window
ZZ	close focused window after saving changes
ZQ	close focused window without saving changes
<C-w v	split window vertically	:vsplit
<C-w s	split window horizentally	:split
<C-w h/j/k/l	switch between windows
<C-W> f	split the window and edit filepath under cursor
<C-w> H/J/K/L	move windows in specific direction
<C-w> <C-r>/R	rotate windows in specific direction
<C-w> _	give a split full height
<C-w>[pipe char]	give a split full width	give a split full width

• a/file/path.md 20: when the cursor is on filepath, pressing <C-W F would open the filepath in a split window and jump to line number(20 in this case)

Tab Management

a Tab in Vim holds one or more windows. multiple Tabs can be open to holds windows. In other words, windows can be grouped together by their relevance.

Key Binding	Action	Command
	open a Tab	:tabe[dit], :tabnew
	close a Tab	:tabc[lose]
	open a filepath in new tab	:tabe FILEPATH
	close all tabs except for the focused one	:tabo[nly]
gt	go to next tab page
gT	go to previous tab page
<C-W> gf	open the filepath under cursor into a new tab
	go to previous tab	:tabp
	go to next tab	:tabN
[count]gT	go to [count] tab
	go to first tab	:tabfir[st]
	go to last tab	:tabl
	list open tabs	:tabs

• :tabnew and tabe command can be prefixed with +, -, 0, $ to open Tabs at desired locations
• a/file/path.md 20: when the cursor is on filepath, pressing <C-W gF would open the filepath in a new tab window and jump to line number(20 in this case)