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=== Navigation and movement ===
 
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| Join / bring next line up (append next line to end)
 
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=== Deletion ===
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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="525" border="01" cellpadding="2"
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| width="150" | x
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| delete this character
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| d,w
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| delete word
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| d,d
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| delete line
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| sft-d
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| delete to end of line (same as emacs ctrl-k)
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| y,w
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| yank to beginning of next word
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| sft-y or y,$
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| yank to end of line
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| y,y
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| yank entire line
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| buffer"lines"y,y
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| yank lines number of lines into buffer buffer (a-z)
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| p
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| paste contents of general-purpose buffer
 
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Revision as of 20:37, 27 June 2007

Vi short command reference

(Learn or review your Vi commands with this concise reference)
by: Krissy J. krissyj@robotz.com

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

 

Navigation and movement

- 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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