Editing tips for Clojure

Vim keybindings that drive Vim editing tools that are common for developers

Comments and Commenting code

• g c c comment line
• g c c comment line
• v (select) g c comment region
• g c 9 j comment 9 lines from current, downwards

Simulated structural editing with surround

Keybinding	Description
v s ]	surround with [characters] without spaces
v s [	surround with [ characters ] without spaces
c s ( [	change surrounding from ( to [
c i (	change in (
c a (	change “around” (
%	jump forwards to next paren, further % toggles between open and close parens.
x p	transpose characters (cut current, paste after)

Moving around quickly

f to jump forward to a given character on the current line. F to jump backwards.

zt, zz, and zb to pull the current line to the top/middle/bottom of the screen.

[number] G jump to line number or :22 to jump to line 22

:7j to jump 7 lines down

gf jump to file name under the cursor - try this in the summary.md file

Selection, find and replace

viw to visual-select in (within) the current word

Source code and configuration files

g Dopen definition in another window

= (code-aware indenting) operator. Nice with the ap (a paragraph) text object.

C-] Jump to definition of keyword under the cursor

code folding

zc and zo are useful to close and open folds, which can be a nice way of focusing on certain pieces of code.

Transposing characters and sections

x p simple transpose of the current and next character

M-t transpose words before and after cursor position

{, } motions jump to next and previous empty lines. This motion makes it simple to rearrange paragraphs

{ d } will kill the paragraph (or multiple paragraphs)

{ will jump to the start of the previous paragraph

p pastes the killed paragraph before the current paragraph

> and < (indent and dedent) operators, useful with the aforementioned }/{ motions.

/ ## multi-replace with iedit and narrowing /