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| + | === Deletion === | ||
| + | deleted text is put to the general purpose buffer; use the p cmd to retrieve it you can also use yanks to not delete it but still put it in the GPB basically delete = cut and yank = copy in your OS's Edit menu | ||
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| + | | width="150" | x | ||
| + | | delete this character | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | d,w | ||
| + | | delete word | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | d,d | ||
| + | | delete line | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | sft-d | ||
| + | | delete to end of line (same as emacs ctrl-k) | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | y,w | ||
| + | | yank to beginning of next word | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | sft-y or y,$ | ||
| + | | yank to end of line | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | y,y | ||
| + | | yank entire line | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | buffer"lines"y,y | ||
| + | | yank lines number of lines into buffer buffer (a-z) | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | p | ||
| + | | paste contents of general-purpose buffer | ||
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Revision as of 21:37, 27 June 2007
Vi short command reference(Learn or review your Vi commands with this concise reference) |
Operation
| i | input mode |
| esc | command mode |
| :se number | display line numbers |
| :se nonumber | don't display line numbers |
| :e | open file |
| :w | save (write) file to disk |
| :wq | save and quit |
| :q! | quit but don't save |
| number,command | apply command number times (e.g. 4,x = delete 4 characters) |
| . | repeat last effective cmd |
| esc,u | undo it |
| ctrl-r | redo it |
| - | go to beginning of previous line |
| 0 (zero) or ^ | go to beginning of this line |
| $ | go to end of this line |
| ret or + | = go to beginning of next line (NOT THE SAME AS INPUT RETURN) |
| w | go to beginning of next word |
| b | go to beginning of this word |
| e | go to end of this word |
| sft-h | go to first line onscreen |
| sft-l | go to last line onscreen |
| ctrl-f | forward (down) one screen |
| ctrl-b | backward (up) one screen |
| 1,sft-g | top of the buffer |
| sft-g | bottom of the buffer (i.e. EOF) |
| line,sft-g | go to line (e.g. 3,5,sft-g = line 35) |
| = column 4) | |
| sft-J | Join / bring next line up (append next line to end) |
Deletion
deleted text is put to the general purpose buffer; use the p cmd to retrieve it you can also use yanks to not delete it but still put it in the GPB basically delete = cut and yank = copy in your OS's Edit menu
| x | delete this character |
| d,w | delete word |
| d,d | delete line |
| sft-d | delete to end of line (same as emacs ctrl-k) |
| y,w | yank to beginning of next word |
| sft-y or y,$ | yank to end of line |
| y,y | yank entire line |
| buffer"lines"y,y | yank lines number of lines into buffer buffer (a-z) |
| p | paste contents of general-purpose buffer |
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