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VI Help

This document provides an overview of commands for the vi and ex editors, including navigation, editing, searching, and regular expression commands for vi, as well as file management and setting commands for ex. It details movement, editing, and deletion shortcuts for vi, and gives examples of global search and replace, sorting, reading/writing files, and mapping keys for ex. Formatting, saving, quitting, and setting options are also covered.

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VI Help

This document provides an overview of commands for the vi and ex editors, including navigation, editing, searching, and regular expression commands for vi, as well as file management and setting commands for ex. It details movement, editing, and deletion shortcuts for vi, and gives examples of global search and replace, sorting, reading/writing files, and mapping keys for ex. Formatting, saving, quitting, and setting options are also covered.

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vi Notes

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Modes:
vi
command
edit (ESC to goto command mode)
ex - line editor
: prompt
:vi (to goto visual mode)
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vi Commands:
a - append after cursor
A - append after end of line
c - change needs scope (ex: 3cw would change the next 3 small words)
cc - change line
C - change from cursor to end of line
d - delete scope (ex. 5dW would delete next 5 big words)
dd - deletes line
D - deletes to end of line
i - insert after cursor
I - insert at begining of line (not counting whitespace)
o - opens new line after cursor
O - opens new line before cursor
p - "put" or paste after cursor from cut & paste buffer
"3p - paste from 3 edit
P - pastes before cursor
r - replace current char
R - replace till ESC pressed
s - substitute till ESC pressed
u - undo
U - undo all changes on this line
x - delete 1 char
yy - "yank yank" or copy current line into cut & paste buffer
ZZ - save and quit
. - repeat last change
>> - indent 1 shiftwidth
<< - outdent 1 shiftwidth
^V - in edit mode will insert control codes
/regexpression - finds regular expression
?regexpression - finds regular expression towards top of file
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Regular expressions: (wild cards)
^ - begining of a line not counting whitespace
0 - goto first char on line
$ - end of a line
\ - gets rid of magic
\$ - matches a dollar sign
. - matches any char
[4-7] - matches numbers 4 thru 7
[A-Z] - matches A thru Z
[j-r] - matches j thru r
* - zero or more of preceding expression
^[A-Z][0-9][0-9]* - would match a cap letter 1 number at begining of line
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vi Movement:
^ - begining of line
$ - end of line
b - back 1 small word
B - back 1 big word
e - end of small word
E - end of big word
G - goto end of file
2G - goes to line 2
h - moves to left
j - moves down 1 line
l - moves 1 char to right
k - moves up 1 line
w - move 1 small word
W - move 1 big word
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vi Scope:
w,W,b,B, etc
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vi Notes:
most commands can be preceeded by a number for multiple occurances
(example 3dd - would delete the next 3 lines)
small word is defined by whitespace
whitespace is tabs, spaces.
big word is defined by any puncuation (){}[],.!?\|:;'"<>-_@#$%^&*
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ex commands:
g - global finds regular expressions
map - map control codes or function keys to macros
q - quit
r - reads in file
s - substitute
so - execute macro file
set - set options
w - write
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ex Examples:
:7 - goes to line 7
:4,6d - deletes lines 4 thru 6
:r file - reads file into current doc after current line
:r !command - reads results of UNIX command into doc
:r !date - would read in date command
:4,9!command - pipes lines 4 thru 9 to UNIX command
:%!sort - would sort all lines
:3,8!sort - would sort lines 3 thru 8
:%g/^print/d - would delete all lines that start with print
:%s/ouput/output/g - would change ouput to output on all lines
:set nows - nowrapscan set searches not wrap around to begining of file
:set ic - ignore case on searches
:set nonu - no line numbers
:set all - to see all the options
:map #1 1G - map function key 1 to goto line 1
:map #2 G - map function key 2 to goto last line
:map #3 :set ts=40^M - map f3 to set tabstops to 40 chars
:map #4 :set sw=3^M - map f4 to set shiftwidth to 3 chars
:map #5 :set ai^M - map f5 to autoindent
:map #6 :%s/^I/ /g^M - map f6 to change control-i to 3 spaces
:map ^O :%s/display/print/g^M - map ^O to change display to print
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Saving and Quiting:
:q! - force a quit even on a modified file
:wq - write and quit
:wq! - force a write then quit (can not do if permissions wrong)
:w newfilename
:q - quit
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ex Scope:
. - current line
$ - last line
5,7 - lines 5 thru 7
1,$ - all lines
% - all lines
.,$ - current line to end of file
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ex Notes:
most commands require scope
scope are the lines to issue command on
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