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I made a cheat sheet for my favorite text editor the other night. This is an improved version. More information, less clutter. It still needs some work, though. There's a lot of room to add stuff, depending on where the sheet will reside. I started it for a friend with a smallish Mac keyboard - it might need to be cut down for something like that. I recommend scissors.
This is only meant to be utilitarian, not complete or strictly correct.
move: move/act on: search/jump:
end, begin word /searchstring fwd
ctrl-b $,0 end, begin line ?searchstring back
k (,) sentence back, fwd next searchstring
{ ( b h l w ) } {,} paragraph back, fwd '' go back
j ctrl-back, ctrl-fwd page * word under cursor
ctrl-f fA goes to next "A" % matching bracket
tA before next "A"
insert text change text
append text yank text into buffer
Replace text replace or substitute char
delete (kill) text x kill char, X kill char back
dobj - dw, d$, etc. undo, ctrl-redo, paste
dd clears whole line . repeat last action
D to end of line visual mode
:s/pattern/replacement/g - replace on this line (g for more than once)
:%s/pattern/replacement/g - everywhere (g for more than once a line)
file ops: windows: :e file edit :new - new window empty :w file write :split - new window on current :wq write and quit :split file - new window with file :r file read contents :vsplit - vertical split :r !command ctrl-w j,k to jump windows :q - quit buffer/window ctrl-w +,-,= to size windows format & misc tweaking: :set expandtab - use spaces Join lines :set shiftwidth=4 gqobj - autoformat obj :set textwidth=70 ~ change case of char :set nowrap >> << indent/unindent lines nctrl-a, nctrl-x - inc or dec number under cursor by n