Miscellaneous

Case

Shortcut	Description
vU	Uppercase character
vu	Lowercase character
~	Toggle case character
viw U	Uppercase word
viw u	Lowercase word
viw ~	Toggle case word
VU / gUU	Uppercase line
Vu / guu	Lowercase line
V~ / g~~	Toggle case line
gggUG	Uppercase all text
ggguG	Lowercase all text
ggg~G	Toggle case all text

Jumping

Shortcut	Description
<C-o>	Go back to previous
<C-i>	Go forward
gf	Go to file in cursor
ga	Display hex, ascii value

Misc command-lines

-	-
:h	Help open help view
:edit!	Reload current file
:2,8m0	Move lines 2-8 to 0
:noh	Clear search highlights
:sort	Sort lines
:ter	Open a terminal window
:set paste	Enable Insert Paste sub-mode
:set nopaste	disable Insert Paste sub-mode
:cq	Exiting with an error (aborting Git)

Navigating

Shortcut	Description
%	Nearest/matching {[()]}
[( | [{	Previous ( or {
]) | ]{	Next ) or }
[m	Previous method start
[M	Previous method end

Counters

Shortcut	Description
<C-a>	Increase number
<C-x>	Decrease number

Tags

Shortcut	Description
:tag Classname	Jump to first definition of Classname
<C-]>	Jump to definition
g]	See all definitions
<C-t>	Go back to last tag
<C-o> <C-i>	Back/forward
:tselect Classname	Find definitions of Classname
:tjump Classname	Find definitions of Classname (auto-select 1st)

Formatting

-	-
:ce 8	Center lines between 8 columns
:ri 4	Right-align lines at 4 columns
:le	Left-align lines

See :help formatting

Marks

Shortcut	Description
`^	Last position of cursor in insert mode
`.	Last change in current buffer
`"	Last exited current buffer
`0	In last file edited
''	Back to line in current buffer where jumped from
``	Back to position in current buffer where jumped from
`[	To beginning of previously changed or yanked text
`]	To end of previously changed or yanked text
`<	To beginning of last visual selection
`>	To end of last visual selection
ma	Mark this cursor position as a
`a	Jump to the cursor position a
'a	Jump to the beginning of the line with position a
d'a	Delete from current line to line of mark a
d`a	Delete from current position to position of mark a
c'a	Change text from current line to line of a
y`a	Yank text from current position to position of a
:marks	List all current marks
:delm a	Delete mark a
:delm a-d	Delete marks a, b, c, d
:delm abc	Delete marks a, b, c

Calculator

Shortcut	Description
<C-r> = 7*7	Shows the result
<C-r> = 10/2	Shows the result

Do this in INSERT mode

Shell

-	-
:!<shell>	Interpret Shell Command
:r!<shell>	Read in output of shell
:r!date	Insert date
:!!date	Replace current line with date

Command line

Shortcut	Description
<C-r><C-w>	Insert current word into the command line
<C-r>"	Paste from " register
<C-x><C-f>	Auto-completion of path in insert mode

Tricks

Remove duplicate lines

:sort | %!uniq -u

To number the lines in the file

:%!cat -n

Copy whole doc to clipboard

:%w !pbcopy            # Mac OS X
:%w !xclip -i -sel c   # GNU/Linux
:%w !xsel -i -b        # GNU/Linux

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