A collection of useful VIM tips and tricks.

vim-tips.md

Vim Tips

Type	Action	Command
Editor	Reload window	:e :edit
	Horizontal split	Ctrl w, s :sp :split
	Vertical split	Ctrl w, v :vs :vsplit
	Switch between windows	Ctrl w, (xor Ctrl w, h, j, k, l)
	Open new tab	:tabe
	Go to next tab	gt
	Go to previous tab	gT
	Tab move left	:-tabm
	Tab move right	:+tabm
	Open buffer in new tab	:tabe %
	See relative path	Ctrl g
	See absolute path	1, Ctrl g
	Reopen closed buffer	:vs#
	Go back to previous buffer	:e# Ctrl-^
Movement	Jump to top	gg
	Jump to bottom	G
	Go back to location of last edit	g;
	Go forward in edit history	g,
Edit	Re-indent	Visual select, =
	Re-indent document	gg=G
	Replace first in current line	:s/original/new
	Replace all in current line	:s/original/new/g
	Search and replace	:%s/foo/bar/g
Misc	Copy to clipboard	:w !pbcopy
	Paste from clipboard	:r !pbpaste
	Suspend Vim	Ctrl z
	Resume from suspension (commandline)	fg
	Show trailing whitespace	:set list /\s\+$

To list registers: :reg
To insert from a register: %[reg]p (e.g. %1p)