Vim Tricks

Shortcuts

Action	Combination
Toggle tree	Ctrl + n
Next tab	gt
Previous tab	gT
Go to beginning of line	0
Go to end	$
Move forward one word	w
Move backward one word	b
Move to end of file	G
Move to top of file	gg
Begin a new line above the cursor	O
Begin a new line below the cursor	o
Go to function definition	Ctrl + ]
Jump back from definition	Ctrl + T
Open the definition in a horizontal split	Ctrl+W Ctrl+]
delete character at cursor	x
delete a word	dw
delete to the beginning of a line	d0
delete to end of the line	d$
Cut a line	dd
Copy a visual selection	y
Paste a line	p
Select and cut multiple lines	v + d
Move a line to n number	:m2
Turn off highlighting	:noh
move current line to the middle of the screen	z z
Moves screen up one line	ctrl + y
Moves screen down one line	ctrl + e
Moves cursor & screen up 1/2 page	Ctrl-u
Moves cursor & screen down 1/2 page	Ctrl-d
Move to end of the matching brace	%

• Replace

:%s/foo/bar/g # Find each occurrence of 'foo' (in all lines), and replace it with 'bar'.
:2,5s/foo/bar/g # Change each 'foo' to 'bar' for all lines from line 2 to line 5 inclusive.

• ^\(\s\s\)\+ for highlighting spacing
• Comment/uncomment block of lines -> https://stackoverflow.com/a/1676690