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| The VI editor has three main modes: |
| VI is the standard visual text editor available on all Unix, Linux, BSD, and other Unix-like computer systems. It also comes with Mac OS/X, and is available for Windows. |
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| The VI editor has three modes: |
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| * edit mode (insert or overtype text) |
| * edit mode (insert or over-type text) |
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| nothing so if you are confused just hit the Esc key and you'll know |
| nothing. So if you are confused, just hit the Esc key and you'll know |
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| Command are case sensitive so that j and J are different commands. |
| Commands are case sensitive so that j and J are different commands. |
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| !!Saving and exiting |
| !!Saving, exiting, and file commands |
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| |:w|save file but don't quit |
| |:w|write (save) file but don't quit |
| |:w newname|write (save) file to new file named newname |
| |:wq|write (save) and quit |
| |:r filename|read (insert) file filename into the current buffer after the current line |
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| !!Cursor movement (in addition to possible cursor keys) |
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| !!Cursor movement |
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| (The letters hjkl on the keyboard form a sort of arrow keys)\\ |
| (The letters hjkl on the keyboard form a set of arrow keys)\\ |
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| See Searching below. |
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| |return|first character of next line |
| |+|first character of next line |
| |-|first character on previous line |
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| |0| beginning of line |
| |0| beginning of line (zero) |
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| |^f| forward a page |
| |^b| back a page |
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| |15G| goto line 15 (basically you can preced G with any line number) |
| |15G| goto line 15 (basically you can precede G with any line number) |
| |H|home - top of screen |
| |M|middle of screen |
| |L|last line on screen |
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| !!Screen movement (scrolling) |
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| !!Text editing (all text entry except r ends by hitting the Esc key) |
| |^f| forward a page |
| |^b| back a page |
| |z return|scroll current line to top-of-screen |
| |z.|scroll current line to middle-of-screen |
| |z-|scroll current line to bottom-of-screen |
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| !!Text editing (Edit Mode - all text entry except "r" ends by hitting the Esc key) |
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| |r| replace a single character |
| |R| replace or over-type (doesn't require Esc key to end) |
| |r| replace a single character (doesn't require Esc key to end) |
| |R| replace or over-type |
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| |o| add text after the current line (open a line) |
| |O| add text before the current line |
| |o| add text after the current line (open a line) (oh) |
| |O| add text before the current line (capitol oh) |
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| |X| delete previous character |
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| |/xxxxx<return-key>| search forward for xxxxx |
| |?xxxxx<return-key>| search backwards for xxxxx |
| |/xxxxx<return-key>| search forward for regular expression xxxxx |
| |?xxxxx<return-key>| search backwards for regular expression xxxxx |
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| Vi's regular expression syntax corresponds to grep's basic regular expression syntax. See [grep] |
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| |:e!|undo all changes since last save |
| |.| repeat last text-changing command |
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| |:set autoindent|turn on auto-indent mode |
| |:set noautoindent|turn off auto-indent mode |
| |^L|redraw screen |
| |!cmd|run cmd in a separate shell |
| |r!cmd|run cmd in a separate shell and insert result into buffer |
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| !!Multiple Files |
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| Vi can edit multiple files. When initially calling up VI, it may be called with multiple file names on the command line. VI supports the following commands to handle multiple files: |
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| |:n|next file is switched to |
| |:N|previous file is switched to |
| |:w|save the current file |
| |:e newfile|edit file named newfile |
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| !!!VIM Commands |
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| VIM, a popular version of VI, has the following additional commands available to it: |
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| !!Buffers |
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| |:ls|list buffers |
| |:bn|next buffer |
| |:bp|previous buffer |
| |:bN|switch to buffer named N (with tab completion) |
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| !!Windows |
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| Window commands begin with ^w. The second letter can be either the letter by itself, or at can be used as a control letter (so you don't have to release the control key if you don't want to.) |
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| !Opening and closing windows |
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| |^ws|split window horizontally |
| |^wv|split window vertically |
| |^wn|edit a new file in an additional / new window |
| |^wc|close the window you are in |
| |^wo|close all other windows |
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| ! Moving cursor to different windows |
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| Use ^w followed by h, j, k, l, up arrow, down, left, or right to move the cursor to the indicated window. |
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| ! Controlling the window size |
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| |^w=|Make all windows equal size |
| |^w-|Make current window smaller (also takes prefix argument) |
| |^w+|Make current window larger (also takes prefix argument) |
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| !! Editing remote files |
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| vim scp://username@host.com/path/to/file |
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| :e scp://username@host.com/path/to/file |
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| !! VIM Startup |
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| When vim starts up, it reads the file ~/.vimrc |
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| You can put configuration commands in that file. |
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| ! Stopping the colors |
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| Put the following in .vimrc |
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| {{{syntax off}}} |
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