Powerful VIM commands

About Vim text editor :

    Vim is initially as standard GUI text editors like Gedit or word processors like OpenOffice.org's Writer, over a longer term you can become more productive using Vim. If you're a touch-typist, you'll find that your speed will improve even more with Vim because your hands rarely need to leave the ^home^ keys, and you'll only need to use the mouse if you choose to do so.

If you're a programmer or working with structured markup languages like HTML, LaTeX, etc., Vim is the bee's knees. It offers a number of features that make working with programming and markup languages much easier.

Some of the useful VIM commands :  

:e filename ---------------------------- OPen finename for edition
:w               ---------------------------- Save file
:q                ---------------------------- Exit Vim
:w!              ---------------------------- Write fine and quit
/word         ----------------------------- Search word from top to bottom

?word        ----------------------------- Search word from bottom to top
Ctrl+a        ---------------------------- Increment number under the cursor
Ctrl+x        ---------------------------- Decrement number under cursor
Vu              ----------------------------- Lowercase line
VU             ------------------------------ Uppercase line

:e .             ------------------------------ Open integrated file explorer
:Sex           ------------------------------ Split window and open integrated file explorer
:browse e  ------------------------------ Graphical file explorer
:ls              ------------------------------- List buffers
:cd ..          ------------------------------- Move to parent directory

:set autoindent -------------------------Turn on auto-indent
:args          ------------------------------- List files
:tabnew     ------------------------------- Creates a new tab

>>             ------------------------------- Indent
<<             ------------------------------- Un-indent




Happy coding..