Linux VIM Editor

1. Working mode

Command mode (A,i,o and other keys)--"Input mode

Input mode (ESC key)--"Command mode

Command mode (: Key)--end-of-line mode

Last-line mode (ESC key)--"Command mode

2.vim using commands

1) Cursor Movement

Cursor direction move ↑, ↓, ←, → top, bottom, left, right

Turn PAGE DOWN or ctrl+f down a full page of content

Flip page UP or ctrl+b up a full page of content

Quick Jump Home or number "0" jump to the beginning of the line

Inline quick Jump End or "$" jumps to the beginning of the line

Quick jump between rows 1G or GG jump to the top of the file

Quick jump between rows G jump to the end of the file line

Quick jump between rows #G jump to File # #

Line number display: Set NU displays line numbers in the editor

Line number display: Set Nonu Cancel editor row number display

2) Copy, paste, delete

Delete a single character x or del at the cursor

Delete the current cursor line DD

Deletes the # line content starting at the cursor #dd

Deletes all characters before the current cursor to the beginning of the d~

Deletes all characters at the end of the line at the current cursor d$

Copy the contents of the entire row of the current line to the Clipboard yy

Copy the # line content that starts at the cursor #yy

Paste the contents of the buffer after the cursor position P

Paste at cursor position before P

3) file Content Search

/word from top to bottom in file find string "word"

Word bottom finds the string "word" in a file

N locates the next matching found string

N locates the previous matched lookup string

4) cancel Edit and save exit

U press Cancel the most recent operation, press U repeatedly, redo the multi-step operation

U is used to cancel all edits made to the current line

ZZ saves the current file contents and exits the VI editor

5) Save file and Exit VI Editor

Save File: W

Save file: W/root/newfile Save As other file

Exit Vi:q not modified exit

Exit Vi:q Discard changes to the contents of the file and Exit VI

Save Exit Vi:wq

6) Open a new file or read the contents of another file

: E ~/install.log to open a new file for compilation

: R/etc/filesystems reads the contents of other files in the current file

7) file content replacement

: S/old/new replaces the first character "old" string found in the current row with "new"

: S/old/new/g replaces all the string "old" found in the current row with "new"

: #,# All Strings "old" found in line number "#,#" range replaced with "new"

S/old/new/g

:% s/old/new/g All the strings found in the entire file range "old" replaced by "new"

: s/old/new/c a C command at the end of a replacement command, prompting the user for confirmation of each substitution action

Linux VIM Editor