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Colon-Mode-r

<filename> Reads a file and inserts it the line below current position

Search-Mode-/<string>

EX:/Password; Enter N to find the previous occurrence.

Movement Mode space bar

Moves forward a character at a time

Search-Mode-?Password

- Searches backwards from the current position.

Colon-Mode-q!

Abort all changes and exit

Modes of vi Insert

Allows you to actually insert new text

Modes of vi Change

Allows you to change existing text, delete lines, change a word, change a character, undo changes

Modes of vi Colon

Allows you to execute global edit commands, read/write to a file, exit vi and many more options

Modes of vi Search

Allows you to search for text and change the text

Modes of vi Movement

Allows you to use arrow keys or other control commands to move around within existing text

Insert Mode a

Append characters AFTER cursor position

Insert Mode A

Append characters at END of current line

Change-Mode-cw

Change the word at the current position up to the first space. Press ESC after new entry

when typing characters into vi, what should be considered?

Commands in "vi" are case sensitive

Change-Mode-#dd

Delete a number of lines, starting with current line. Example: 3dd will delete 3 lines

Change-Mode-x

Delete character at current position

Change-Mode-D

Delete from cursor to end of the line

Change-Mode-#x

Delete several characters starting at current position. Example: 3x deletes 3 characters

Change-Mode-dd

Delete the current line

Change-Mode-dw

Delete the current word

Movement Mode ENTER key

Drops down a line at a time

Colon-Mode-!<command>

Executes a shell command. Example: !ls will list files in the current directory

Colon-Mode-ESC

Exit from COLON MODE. It doesn't hurt if you press ESC more than once

Insert Mode ESC key

Exit insert mode

Movement Mode ^B

Goes backwards a screen at a time

Movement Mode ^F

Goes forward a screen at a time

Insert Mode i

Insert characters BEFORE cursor position

Insert Mode l

Insert characters at BEGINNING of current line (Capital i)

Change-Mode-J

Join the line below to the end of the current line

Movement Mode #G

Jumps to a specific line number. Example: 3G jumps to line 3

Movement Mode $

Jumps to end of current line

Movement Mode G

Jumps to the end of the file

Movement Mode backspace key

Moves backwards a character at a time

Insert Mode O

Open a new line ABOVE current line

Insert Mode o

Open a new line BELOW current line

Colon-Mode-1,$s/thisvalue/withthis/

Performs global substitution starting at line 1 to end of file. The "$" sign represents end of

Change-Mode-R

Replace characters starting at cursor position until ESC

Change-Mode-rx

Replace current character with the letter "x"

Change-Mode-U

Restore the current line

Colon-Mode-:

Start COLON MODE. You will jump to the last line on the screen where Colon-Mode-a colon will display and await your next command

Modes of vi Oh Yeah

Special and misc. commands

Change-Mode-u

Undo last command

Colon-Mode-#,#w<filename>

Write a range of lines of from current file to another file. Example: 10,20w myfile will write lines 10 to 20 to a file called "myfile"

Colon-Mode-w<filename>

Write the current file to another file name

Colon-Mode-x

Write the file and exit

Colon-Mode-w

Write the file saving current changes, but does not exit vi

How to Start?

vi <filename> Example: vi myfile


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