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‘vi’ quick command references
I’m a die hard vi user and still prefer using vi to edit plaintext files. There were some discussion on twitter on vi awhile back and I thought I’d share my own command cheat sheet for vi in edit mode. This is not quite a full tutorial but makes for a useful reference.
Editing Text…
i Insert before cursor
I Insert before line
a Append after cursor
A Append after line
o Open a new line after current line
O Open a new line before current line
r Replace one character
R Replace many characters
x Delete character to the right of cursor
X Delete character to the left of cursor
D Delete to the end of the line
dd Delete current line
:d Delete current line
yy Yank the current line
p Put after the position or after the line
J Join lines
u Undo last change
Moving the cursor around…
h Move left
j Move down
k Move up
l Move right
w Move to next word
W Move to next blank delimited word
b Move to the beginning of the word
B Move to the beginning of blank delimted word
e Move to the end of the word
E Move to the end of Blank delimited word
0 Move to the begining of the line
$ Move to the end of the line
Exiting ‘vi’…
Filed under: cli-fu — appgirl @ 5:21 pm:wq Exit, saving changes
:q Exit as long as there have been no changes
ZZ Exit and save changes if any have been made
:q! Exit and ignore any changes
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