Neovim Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Important: shortcuts marked as configuration-dependent are not universal. Run :map, :nmap, :imap, :vmap and :Telescope keymaps inside Neovim to inspect your active mappings.

Notation

1. Modes

2. Basic movement

3. Editing

4. Visual mode

5. Search and replace

6. Files, buffers and windows

Files

Buffers

Windows

7. Marks, jumps and registers

8. Macros

9. Comments — comment.lua

The exact mapping depends on which comment plugin your comment.lua loads.

Common mappings used by Comment.nvim:

Examples:

10. Telescope — telescope.lua

Global shortcuts that open Telescope are config-dependent. Common custom mappings are:

Inside Telescope:

Useful commands:

:Telescope find_files
:Telescope live_grep
:Telescope buffers
:Telescope help_tags
:Telescope oldfiles
:Telescope keymaps
:Telescope diagnostics

11. Neo-tree — neo-tree.lua

The shortcut used to open Neo-tree is config-dependent. A common mapping is:

Useful commands:

:Neotree toggle
:Neotree reveal
:Neotree focus
:Neotree filesystem
:Neotree buffers
:Neotree git_status

Inside Neo-tree:

12. Bufferline — bufferline.lua

Bufferline does not necessarily create global shortcuts. These are common custom mappings:

Useful commands:

:BufferLineCycleNext
:BufferLineCyclePrev
:BufferLineMoveNext
:BufferLineMovePrev
:BufferLinePick
:BufferLinePickClose
:BufferLineCloseOthers
:BufferLineCloseLeft
:BufferLineCloseRight
:BufferLineTogglePin

13. LSP — lsp.lua

LSP mappings are usually defined inside your lsp.lua, often during LspAttach.

Common mappings:

Native LSP commands:

:lua vim.lsp.buf.definition()
:lua vim.lsp.buf.references()
:lua vim.lsp.buf.rename()
:lua vim.lsp.buf.code_action()
:lua vim.diagnostic.open_float()

14. Completion — cmp.lua

Inside the completion menu, mappings are config-dependent. Common nvim-cmp mappings:

15. Formatting — conform.lua

Formatting shortcuts are completely config-dependent.

Common mapping:

Typical Lua command:

require("conform").format({ async = true, lsp_format = "fallback" })

Useful inspection:

:ConformInfo

16. Git signs — gitsigns.lua

Common Gitsigns mappings:

17. Autopairs — autopairs.lua

nvim-autopairs normally works automatically.

18. Treesitter — treesitter.lua

Treesitter mainly improves syntax parsing and highlighting. It may not add shortcuts unless incremental selection is configured.

Common incremental-selection mappings:

Useful commands:

:Inspect
:InspectTree
:TSInstallInfo
:TSUpdate

19. Indentation — indent.lua

Indent guide plugins usually add visual guides only and may have no keyboard mappings.

Native indentation shortcuts:

20. UI plugins

These plugins normally do not add important editing shortcuts:

• alpha.lua — startup dashboard / tela inicial
• lualine.lua — status line / barra de status
• tokyo-night.lua — color scheme / tema de cores
• indent.lua — indentation guides / guias de indentação

Alpha dashboard shortcuts depend entirely on your alpha.lua configuration.

21. Discover your exact mappings

Run these commands inside Neovim:

:map
:nmap
:imap
:vmap
:xmap
:map <leader>
:verbose nmap <leader>e
:verbose nmap gd
:Telescope keymaps

Meaning:

To inspect the leader key:

:lua print(vim.g.mapleader)
:lua print(vim.g.maplocalleader)

22. Essential daily shortcuts

Accuracy note

Neovim's native shortcuts are stable, but plugin launch mappings such as <leader>ff, <leader>e, gd, formatting and buffer navigation are commonly customized in Lua configuration files. Always use :verbose map or :Telescope keymaps to confirm your active configuration.