gk, gj - Move up or down one screen line. (Helpful if lines wrap.) ga - Display ASCII, hex and octal value of character under cursor. Helpful to search/replace control characters. For example, /x1a will search for Control-Z (^Z). ( is not literal, it means hit Control and v at the same time.) gd - Jump to declaration of local variable in a C program. This doesn't seem to work for multiple declarations on one line. ge - Move to end of previous word. gE - Same thing, but words are considered separated by whitespace. W - Go to beginning of next word after whitespace. B - Go to character after closest whitespace left of cursor. E - Go to character before closest whitespace right of cursor. '. - Jumps to last modified line. `. - Jumps to last modified position. ; - Repeat last character search (f,F,t,T). , - Repeat last character search in the other direction. C-x C-f - Complete filename under cursor g - Display byte, word, line, etc. cursor is on. go - Go to count byte. - Decrements first number after the cursor. - Increments first number after the cursor. read !... - Inserts standard output of shell command. - Moves cursor to beginning of command-line. - Moves cursor to end of command-line. - Deletes word before cursor on command-line. - Wipes command-line clean. [I - Grep current buffer for word under cursor. vi *.txt - Open a series of files and replace all argdo %s/pat/rep/gc | wn occurrences of pat with rep. set shortmess=a Outlaws "Hit ENTER to continue" prompts.