Misc

• CTRL+Q - Turns on flow-control (if you turned it off by mistake)
• CTRL+a - increment number
• :cw - toggle quickfix list
• CTRL+E - scroll window down (cursor stays)
• CTRL+Y - scroll window up (cursor stays)
• :r - retrive (:r filename - loads file at cursor. :r !ls - loads ls at cur)

Commands

• :x - exit (with save)
• :e <path> - open path
• :w - write (save)
• :e! - restore file (lose changes)
• :saveas <path> - save to new file
• :edit - open file in buffer

Search/Find/Moving around

• 100G - line 100
• gg - line 1
• G - last line
• g; - go back to last edit point (move back though changelist)
• g, - move forward through changelist
• CTRL+o CTRL+i - prev/next goto
• two backticks - go back to where you were
• gi - go back to last insert
• {, } - prev, next paragraph
• w - start of next word (only alphanumeric + underscore)
• e - end of word
• W - start of next word
• E - end of word
• % - matching bracket
• * - next occurence of word
• # - previous occurence
• fp - find next p
• Fp - find previous p
• tp - fp but move cursor before
• Tp - Fp but move cursor before
• , - find next occurrence
• ; - find previous occurrence
• 3fa - find 3rd occurrence of a
• ^ - go to first non-space char on line
• $ - end of line
• / - search forwards
• ? - search backwards
• :/s/old/new/g - subtitue old for new
• :1,10s/ - only between lines 1 and 10
• :%s/ - whole file

Editing

• u - Undo
• CTRL+r - Redo
• !! - repeat last command
• v - visual select
• V - select line
• a - Insert after cursor (append)
• A - Insert end of line
• o - Insert new line (open)
• O - Insert new line before
• cw - (change) replace to end of word
• dw - delete to end of word
• dd - cut line
• yy - Copy line (yank)
• p - paste (put)
• P - Paste before
• 0y$ - yank from beginning to end of line
• ye - yank to end of line
• dt" - remove everything until "
• J - join lines
• < - indent left
• > - indent right
• = - autoindent
• CTRL+v + move down - block select
• I#ESC - comment each line
• CTRL+n - complete word
• CTRL+p - complete word (previous)
• X - delete char to left of cursor
• s - delete char and enter insert mode

Buffers

• :ls - list buffers
  • a - active
  • # - alternate buffer
  • + - buffer modified
  • h - hidden (unsaved changes and is not currently loaded in a window)
• CTRL-^ - switch between active and alternate buffers
• :bn - buffer next
• :bp - buffer previous
• :bd! - remove buffer (lossing changes)

Windows

• ctrl-w w - cycle between windows
• :split - split window or sp
• :vsplit - vertically split window
• CTRL+w hjkl - switch windows
• CTRL+w c - close window
• CTRL+w n - new window
• CTRL+w s - new split horizontally
• ctrl+w v - new split vertically
• :sp <filename> - split window and open fiename
• :vsp <filename> - split virtially and open filename
• ctrl+w +/- - resize windows

Tabs

• :tabe <file> - open file in new tab
• :tabedit <file>
• gt - next tab
• gT - prev tab
• 2gt - goto tab 2
• :tabclose - close all windows in current tab
• :tabonly - close all tabs execpt current one
• ctrl-w T - move current window into its own tab
• :ls - list buffers
• :b22 - goto buffer 22
• :b <match> - goto buffer (tab to complete)

Macros

• qa - record actions in macro a
• q - end macro
• @a - playback a
• @@ - playback last macro

Spelling

• [s, ]s - move to next/prev mispealt word
• z= - find suggested alternatives
• zg - add to dictionary
• zw - mark as misplealt

Ruby and Rails

• :Rake - Run rake
• :A [file] - Alternate file/spec or load
• :AS [file] - As above but split horizontally
• :AV [file] - As above but split vertically
• :AT [file] - As above but open in new tab
• :Elib [file] - Edit lib file or Gemfile
• :Espec [file] - Edit spec file or spec_helper
• :Ctags - Ctags for the project