Editor – Developer Snippets

Some shortcuts for working with VIM, an open source text editor for the console. Available for Linux, Windows & Mac.

Smart movements

* and # search for the word under the cursor forward/backward.
w to the next word
W to the next space-separated word
b / e to the begin/end of the current word. (B / E for space separated only)
gg / G jump to the begin/end of the file.
% jump to the matching { .. } or ( .. ), etc..
{ / } jump to next paragraph.
'. jump back to last edited line.
g; jump back to last edited position.