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Cheatsheets

This page contains several cheatsheets for applications that I use frequently.

ASDF

Install asdf from via brew with brew install asdf.

asdf list  # List all installed applications and marks their defaults with a star
asdf local nodejs 23.6.0  # Set the local version of `nodejs` to `23.6.0`

Git

git switch <branch>  # Switch to a remote branch locally and set up tracking the remote branch

Grep

grep "pattern" file.txt  # Search for a pattern in a file

SSH

ssh-add -l              # List all identities added to the SSH agent
ssh-add -D              # Delete all identities
ssh-add <path/to/file>  # Add private key to ssh-agent

ViM

Packages & Plugins

File Management

:e .   # Open a file explorer in the current working directory
:tabe  # Open file in new tab
:tabn  # Go to next tab
:tabp  # Go to previous tab
:w     # Write current file
:q     # Quit ViM
:q!    # Force Quit ViM

Cursor navigation

:/<term>  # Search for term
n         # Next search hit
p         # Previous search hit

w         # Next word
b         # Previous word

Ctrl+f    # Scroll forward to next page
Ctrl+d    # Scroll down half a screen
Ctrl+b    # Scroll backward to previous page
Ctrl+u    # Scroll up half a screen

Window Management

:sp        # Open new horizontal split with current file
:vs        # Open new vertical split with current file
:term      # Alias of terminal, close with Ctrl+D
:terminal  # Open a new terminal window, close with Ctrl+z

Ctrl+w h   # Switch to left window
Ctrl+w l   # Switch to right window
Ctrl+z     # Bring window to the background (open a shell), return with "fg"

Text Manipulation

i      # Switch to insert mode at the current cursor
A      # Append to current line at the end
o      # Insert line below
O      # Insert line above
u      # Undo latest change
Ctrl-r # Redo latest change
dw     # Delete word
d$     # Delete from cursor position to end of line

~    # Switch between upper and lower case
guu  # Switch current line to lower case
gUU  # Switch current line to upper case
Resize Operations

Ctrl+w -   # Shrink current window horizontally
Ctrl+w +   # Expand current window horizontally
Ctrl+w >   # Expand current window to the right (Remmeber to press the Shift key)
Ctrl+w <   # Shrink current window to the left (Remember to press the Shift key)