Vim Talon Cursorless Dictionary

• Inspired by: https://vim.rtorr.com/
• Vim Docs: https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/
• Cursorless Docs: https://www.cursorless.org/docs/
• Most of the remaining Talon commands come from https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon

Cursor Movements (normal mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
h	left
j	down	south
k	up	north
l	right
gj	down (multi-line text)
gk	up (multi-line text)
H	top of screen
M	middle of screen
L	bottom of screen
w	start of next word
W	start of next word (words contain punctuations)
e	end of next word
E	end of next word (words contain punctuations)
b	start of last word
B	start of last word (words contain punctuations)
ge	end of last word
gE	end of last word (words contain punctuations)
0	start of line	head
$	end of line	tail
^	first non-blank character of line
g_	last non-blank character of line
%	matching (pair-)character
gg	first line of document
G	last line of document
gd	local declaration
gD	global declaration
{	previous paragraph
}	next paragraph
zz	center cursor on screen
zt	position on top
zb	position on bottom
Ctrl + d	move down 1/2 page
Ctrl + u	move up 1/2 page
Ctrl + b	move back (1 page up)
Ctrl + f	move forward (1 page down)
Ctrl + e	move down one line
Ctrl + y	move up one line

(f,t,F,T, ';' and ',' are not needed in Cursorless. I can jump directly to a [target])

Insert/Append Text (insert mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
i	insert before cursor
I	insert at start of line
a	append after cursor
A	append at end of line
o	open new line below	pour [target]
O	open new line above	drink [target]
ea	append after end of word
ESC	exit insert mode	-

(Ctrl + h, w, j, t, d, n, p, rx, ox not needed here because of no difference between "normal" and "insert mode" in the Cursorless setting)

Editing (normal mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
r	replace single character
R	replace characters until ESC
J	join lines
gJ	join lines without space between them
cw	change to end of word
C	change to end of line
u	undo	nope
U	Restore whole line
Ctrl + r	redo	yes indeed
.	repeat last command	repeat that
gu	switch to lower case (with motion)
gU	switch to upper case (with motion)
g~	switch case (with motion)

(g~, gwip, cc, s, S, xp are missing)

Commands for marking text (visual mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Cursorless
v	start visual mode and select a letter
V	start line-wise visual mode and select a line	take line [target]
o	move to other end of marked area
Ctrl + v	start visual block mode
O	move to other corner of block
aw	mark a word	take [target]
ab	a block with ()
aB	a block with {}
at	a block with <>
ib	inner block with ()
iB	inner block with {}
it	inner block with <>
ESC	exit visual mode

Commands (visual mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
y	copy selected	copy that
u	switch to lower case
U	switch to upper case
~	switch case
<	shift to left
>	shift to right
d	delete

Registers

(I have already a clipboard feature in my IDE)

Marks and Positions

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
:marks	list of marks
ma	toggle mark (a -> local/A -> global)
`a	jump to position of a/A
y`a	yank text to position of a/A
`0	go to previously exited
`"	go to last edited of this file
`.	go to last change of this file
``	go to position before last jump
:ju[mps]	list of jumps
Ctrl + i	newer position in jump list
Ctrl + o	older position in jump list
:changes	list of changes
g,	newer position in change list
g;	older position in change list
Ctrl + ]	jump to tag under cursor

(The command 'a jumps to the beginning of line with mark a/A) (remember to set ideamarks in .ideavimrc to use native IntelliJ-bookmarks)

Macros

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
qa	record macro 'a'
q	stop recording
@a	run macro 'a'
@@	run last macro

(Run macro x times: x@a or x@@)

Cut, paste and move text (normal mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
yy	copy line
yw	copy characters from cursor position to before next word
yiw	copy word under cursor
yaw	copy word under cursor with space after or before
Y	copy to end of line
p	paste after cursor
P	paste before cursor
gp	paste after cursor and leave cursor after new text
gP	paste before cursor and leave cursor after new text
dd	delete/cut line
dw	delete/cut characters from cursor position to before next word
diw	delete/cut word under cursor	chuck [target]
daw	delete/cut word under cursor and the space after or before
x	delete/cut character under cursor
D	delete/cut to end of line	chuck tail [target]
D	delete/cut to end of line
:[range]d	delete/cut from [range] (e.g. 2,7 for line 2 to line 7)
:g/{pattern}/d	delete all line containing pattern
:g!/{pattern}/d	delete all lines not containing pattern
:[range]mo[ve] {adress}	move lines given by [range] to below {adress}

(For ranges, you can use: . = current line, $1 = start of file, $d = end of file )

Indent text (normal mode)

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon
<<	shift to left
>>	shift to right

(<%, >%, >ib, >at, 3==, =%, =iB, gg=G, ]p are probably not needed. I have a formatter in my IDE)

Save and exit

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon
:w	write file	disk
:wa	write all files
:q	exit

Search and replace

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon
/pattern	search forward in file for pattern
?pattern	search backward in file for pattern
\pattern	'very magic': non-aphanum chars are interpreted as sepcial regex syms
n	go to next search match
N	go to previous search match
:%s/old/new/g	substitute all old with new in current file
:%s/old/new/gc	substitute all old with new in current file with confirmations
:noh[lsearch]	remove highlighting from search matches

Search in multiple files

(I can use a direct mapping to IDE actions to achieve this)

Tabs

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon
:tabnew	open new tab	tab (open/new)
gt	next tab	tab next
gT	previous tab	tab (last/previous)
#gt	tab number #	go tab #
:tabm[ove] #	move current tab to #	-
:tabc[lose]	close current tab	tab close
:tabo[nly]	close all tabs but the current	-
:tabdo	run command for all tabs	-
Ctrl + wT	Move current split into own tab	-
-	Duplicate tab	tab duplicate
-	Restore tab	tab (reopen/restore)
-	Tab search (Browser)	tab search

Working with multiple files

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon
Ctrl + ws	window split	-
Ctrl + wv	window split vertically	-
Ctrl + ww	switch window	-
Ctrl + wq	quit window	-
Ctrl + wx	exchange current window with next one	-
Ctrl + w=	make all windows equal height & width	-

(I can use a direct mapping to IDE actions to achieve this in Talon)

(Ctrl+wh, wl, wj, wk are mapped differently in my .ideavim-settings)

? buffer commands probably not needed, because I'm already in an IDE

Diff

Todo

More [g]lobal commands

https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/vimindex.html#g

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
gi	insert text before the first non-blank in the line

Square bracket commands

Todo

surround.vim

https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

Vim Command	Meaning	Talon/Cursorless
ds[target]	delete [target]-surroundings
cs[target1][target2]	change surroundings [target1] to [target2]
ys[motion][target]	change surrounding of [motion] to [target]

Todo

.ideavim (personal settings)

https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim https://ideavim.sourceforge.net/vim/motion.html

(I can use a direct mapping to IDE actions to achieve this)

.ideavim Command	Meaning	jetbrains.talon	vscode.talon
]w	next camel hump	go camel right	-
K	open man page

Todo