VIM
VIM – Visual Interface Improved editor.
It is the improvements in VI editor. It’s used for text editing, scripting, In VIM, there are three modes of operations – Insert Mode, Command Mode, Extended Mode
At Insert Mode -
i-Inserts text at current cursor position.
I- Inserts text at beginning of the line.
a- Append text after current cursor position.
o- Inserts line below the current cursor position.
O- Inserts line above the current cursor position.
r- Replace a single character at current cursor position.
At Extended Command Mode -
:q – quit without saving
:q! – quit forcefully without saving
:w – save
:wq – save & quit
:wq! – save & quit forcefully
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– save & quit
:sh – provides temporary shell
:se nu – setting line numbers
:se nonu – removing line numbers
:84(enter) – goes to line number 84
Cursor navigation commands -
w – Cursor moves in forward direction word to word
b – Cursor moves in backward direction word to word
e – Cursor moves in forward end of word to word
$ – end of line
0 – beginning of line
[ - beginning of sentence
] – ending of sentence
{ – beginning of paragraph
} – ending of paragraph
[[ - beginning of file
]] – ending of file
Delete / Copy / Paste / Undo in Command Mode -
dd – deletes a line
2dd – deletes 2 lines
dw – deletes a word
5dw – deletes 5 word
3d) – deletes 3 lines
4d} – deletes 4 paragraphs
x – deletes a single character
yy – copy a line
2yy – copies 2 lines
3yw – copies 3 words
5y} – copies 5 paragraphs
p – put ( deleted OR copied text )
u – undo ( can undo 1000 times )
Ctrl + r – Redo
G – Moves cursor to last line of file
5G – Moves cursor to 5th line of file
shift + zz – save & quit
/<find word> – locate word
Ctrl + u – Scrolling up
Ctrl + d – Scrolling down
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