The most common commands used in Vim

Movement commands

Command	Description
h	move left
j	move down
k	move up
l	move right
ctrl + b	page up
ctrl + f	page down
$	move to end of the line
0	move to beginning of the line
^	move to the first non-blank character of the line
G	jump to end of the file
gg	jump to beginning of the file
10G	got to line
w	move foward to the word
b	move backward to the beginnig of a word
}	jump foward one paragraph
{	jump backward one paragraph

Editing commands

Command	Description
d	cut
y	copy
p	paste
dd	delete line
yy	copy line
u	undo
red	redo
~	upper or lower case
i	start insert mode at cursor
I	insert at the beginnig of the line
a	append after cursor
A	append the end of the line
ea	append the end of the word

Search commands

Command	Description
/text	search forward in the document for text
n	move foward to the search result
N	move backward to the search result

File editing commands

Command	Description
w	write to file
e	open file
pwd	show current directory
cd	switch Vim to directory
:browse e	open dialog
:q	close
:q!	close and drop changes

Folding commands

Command	Description
zR	open all
zM	close all
zo	open
zc	close

Other commands

Command	Description
:set list	display whitespaces
:set nolist	displays normaly
:copen	opens error window
:cclose	closes error window
:set expandtab	to insert space characters whenever the tab key is pressed
:retab	to change all the existing tab characters to match the current tab settings
:TlistToggle	opens the taglist window