Keymap
Normal mode
Movement
NOTE:
f
,F
,t
andT
are not confined to the current line.
Key | Description |
---|---|
h , Left | Move left |
j , Down | Move down |
k , Up | Move up |
l , Right | Move right |
w | Move next word start |
b | Move previous word start |
e | Move next word end |
W | Move next WORD start |
B | Move previous WORD start |
E | Move next WORD end |
t | Find 'till next char |
f | Find next char |
T | Find 'till previous char |
F | Find previous char |
Home | Move to the start of the line |
End | Move to the end of the line |
PageUp | Move page up |
PageDown | Move page down |
Ctrl-u | Move half page up |
Ctrl-d | Move half page down |
Ctrl-i | Jump forward on the jumplist TODO: conflicts tab |
Ctrl-o | Jump backward on the jumplist |
v | Enter select (extend) mode |
g | Enter goto mode |
m | Enter match mode |
: | Enter command mode |
z | Enter view mode |
Ctrl-w | Enter window mode (maybe will be remove for spc w w later) |
Space | Enter space mode |
K | Show documentation for the item under the cursor |
Changes
Key | Description |
---|---|
r | Replace with a character |
R | Replace with yanked text |
i | Insert before selection |
a | Insert after selection (append) |
I | Insert at the start of the line |
A | Insert at the end of the line |
o | Open new line below selection |
o | Open new line above selection |
u | Undo change |
U | Redo change |
y | Yank selection |
p | Paste after selection |
P | Paste before selection |
> | Indent selection |
< | Unindent selection |
= | Format selection |
d | Delete selection |
c | Change selection (delete and enter insert mode) |
Selection manipulation
Key | Description |
---|---|
s | Select all regex matches inside selections |
S | Split selection into subselections on regex matches |
Alt-s | Split selection on newlines |
; | Collapse selection onto a single cursor |
Alt-; | Flip selection cursor and anchor |
% | Select entire file |
x | Select current line, if already selected, extend to next line |
Expand selection to parent syntax node TODO: pick a key | |
J | join lines inside selection |
K | keep selections matching the regex TODO: overlapped by hover help |
Space | keep only the primary selection TODO: overlapped by space mode |
Ctrl-c | Comment/uncomment the selections |
Search
TODO: The search implementation isn't ideal yet -- we don't support searching in reverse, or searching via smartcase.
Key | Description |
---|---|
/ | Search for regex pattern |
n | Select next search match |
N | Add next search match to selection |
* | Use current selection as the search pattern |
Diagnostics
NOTE:
[
and]
will likely contain more pair mappings in the style of vim-unimpaired
Key | Description |
---|---|
[d | Go to previous diagnostic |
]d | Go to next diagnostic |
[D | Go to first diagnostic in document |
]D | Go to last diagnostic in document |
Select / extend mode
I'm still pondering whether to keep this mode or not. It changes movement commands to extend the existing selection instead of replacing it.
NOTE: It's a bit confusing at the moment because extend hasn't been implemented for all movement commands yet.
View mode
View mode is intended for scrolling and manipulating the view without changing the selection.
Key | Description |
---|---|
z , c | Vertically center the line |
t | Align the line to the top of the screen |
b | Align the line to the bottom of the screen |
m | Align the line to the middle of the screen (horizontally) |
j | Scroll the view downwards |
k | Scroll the view upwards |
Goto mode
Jumps to various locations.
NOTE: Some of these features are only available with the LSP present.
Key | Description |
---|---|
g | Go to the start of the file |
e | Go to the end of the file |
h | Go to the start of the line |
l | Go to the end of the line |
s | Go to first non-whitespace character of the line |
t | Go to the top of the screen |
m | Go to the middle of the screen |
b | Go to the bottom of the screen |
d | Go to definition |
y | Go to type definition |
r | Go to references |
i | Go to implementation |
a | Go to the last accessed/alternate file |
Match mode
Enter this mode using m
from normal mode. See the relavant section
in Usage for an explanation about surround
and textobject usage.
Key | Description |
---|---|
m | Goto matching bracket |
s <char> | Surround current selection with <char> |
r <from><to> | Replace surround character <from> with <to> |
d <char> | Delete surround character <char> |
a <object> | Select around textobject |
i <object> | Select inside textobject |
Object mode
TODO: Mappings for selecting syntax nodes (a superset of [
).
Window mode
This layer is similar to vim keybindings as kakoune does not support window.
Key | Description |
---|---|
w , Ctrl-w | Switch to next window |
v , Ctrl-v | Vertical right split |
h , Ctrl-h | Horizontal bottom split |
q , Ctrl-q | Close current window |
Space mode
This layer is a kludge of mappings I had under leader key in neovim.
Key | Description |
---|---|
f | Open file picker |
b | Open buffer picker |
s | Open symbol picker (current document) |
w | Enter window mode |
space | Keep primary selection TODO: it's here because space mode replaced it |
p | paste system clipboard after selections |
P | paste system clipboard before selections |
y | join and yank selections to clipboard |
Y | yank main selection to clipboard |
R | replace selections by clipboard contents |
Picker
Keys to use within picker.
Key | Description |
---|---|
Up , Ctrl-p | Previous entry |
Down , Ctrl-n | Next entry |
Ctrl-space | Filter options |
Enter | Open selected |
Ctrl-h | Open horizontally |
Ctrl-v | Open vertically |
Escape , Ctrl-c | Close picker |