In TextMate, you can jump forward and back between tabstops by pressing tab or shift-tab (hence the name tabstop!). You can make UltiSnips behave the same way by putting these lines in your .vimrc file: let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<tab>" let g:UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger="<tab>" let g:UltiSnipsJumpBackwardTrigger="<s-tab>" Look up :help UltiSnips-triggers for more details. UltiSnips can replace