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Vim Cheatsheet

Text

:set textwidth=79
to automatically insert lines breaks after 79 characters
gq
to wrap the text on the current line (or selected text)
:set wrap linebreak nolist
to display long lines as multiple screen lines

Spelling

:setlocal spell
turn on spell-checking
:set nospell
turn off spell-checking
:setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb
specify language
]s
move to next spelling mistake
zg
add the highlighted word to the dictionary
z=
suggest words for word under cursor

New files

:e filename
start editing a new file

or, in NERDTree, press m, and a from the context menu