I thought it would be beneficial to have a record of the most commonly used VIM shortcuts. I am not a VIM expert but I am proudly using it almost every day on servers across different environments (OSX, Ubuntu, CentOS) without any special configuration (I know with that it could be even more powerful - one day may be).
Select - Cut and Paste: Mode: visual Keys: Shift + V to select lines, Arrows to moving up and down, d for cut, p for paste Select - Copy and Paste Mode: visual Keys: Shift + P to select lines, Arrows to moving up and down, y for copy, p for paste Jump to end of the current line Mode: visual Key: $ Jump to the end of the current line and append Mode: visual Keys: Shift + a OR A Undo last action Mode: visual Key: u Jump to the end of the file Mode: visual Keys: Shift + g OR G Entering to browsing mode Command: :E