Use and instance of Linux Vi/Vim

Use and instance of Linux Vi/Vim

All Unix Like systems have built-in vi file editors, while other file editors do not necessarily exist.

However, we currently use the vim editor.

Vim has the ability to edit programs. It can actively identify the correctness of the syntax in the font color to facilitate program design.

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What is vim?

Vim is a text editor developed from vi. Code Completion, compilation, error jump, and other convenient programming functions are particularly rich and widely used by programmers.

To put it simply, vi is an old-fashioned word processor, but its functions are quite complete, but there is still something that can be improved. Vim is a useful tool for program developers. Even vim's official website (http://www.vim.org) itself says vim is a programming tool rather than a text processing software.

Vim keyboard:

Vi/vim usage

Basically, vi/vim is divided into three modes: general mode, edit mode, and command column command mode. The functions of these three modes are as follows:

• General mode:
  Open an archive in vi and enter the normal mode (this is the default mode ). In this mode, you can use the top, bottom, and left buttons to move the cursor. You can use the delete character or delete the entire line to process the file content, you can also use "copy and paste" to process your file data.
• Edit mode:
  In normal mode, you can delete, copy, and paste files, but you cannot edit the file content! It takes you to press "I, I, o, O, a, A, r, R" and other letters to enter the editing mode. Note! In Linux, when you press these buttons, "INSERT or REPLACE" appears in the lower left corner of the screen before editing. To return to normal mode, you must press the "Esc" button to exit the editing mode.
• Command column command mode:
  In normal mode, enter 『:/? You can move the cursor to the bottom line. In this mode, you can search for information, while reading, saving, replacing a large number of characters, leaving vi, displaying a row number, and so on are achieved in this mode!

Simply put, we can think of the three modes as the icons below:

Vi/vim use the instance vi/vim to enter the normal mode

If you want to use vi to create a file named test.txt, you can do this:

[root@www ~]# vi test.txt

Directly enter the vi file name to enter the General vi Mode. Note that you must add a file name after vi, regardless of whether the file exists or not!

Press I to enter the editing mode and start editing the text

In normal mode, you only need to press the I, o, a and other characters to enter the editing mode!

In the editing mode, you can find that the "-INSERT-" text appears in the status bar in the lower left corner, which means you can enter any characters.

At this time, except for the [Esc] button on the keyboard, other buttons can be regarded as general input buttons, so you can edit any.

Press the [ESC] button to return to normal mode.

Okay. Now that I have edited the style above, how can I exit? Yes! That's right! Just press the [Esc] button for him! Immediately you will find that the INSERT-in the lower left corner of the screen is missing!

In normal mode, press: wq to save and exit vi

OK, we have to archive it. The command for saving and leaving the disk is very simple. Enter ": wq" to save and exit!

OK! In this way, a test.txt file is created successfully. Is it easy.

Vi/vim key description

In addition to the I, [Esc], and: wq of the simple example above, there are many buttons available for vim.

Part 1: Description of buttons available in general mode, move the cursor, copy and paste, and replace search

How to move the cursor
H or the left arrow (←)	Move a character to the left
J or the down arrow (arrow)	Move the cursor down a character
K or the up arrow (arrow)	Move the cursor one character up
L or right arrow (→)	Move the cursor one character to the right
If you place your right hand on the keyboard, you will find that hjkl is arranged together, so you can use these four buttons to move the cursor. If you want to move multiple times, for example, move 30 rows down, you can use a combination of "30j" or "30 Gbit/s", that is, after adding the number of times (number) You want to move, press the action!
[Ctrl] + [f]	The screen moves one Page Down, which is equivalent to a [Page Down] button (commonly used)
[Ctrl] + [B]	The screen moves one Page Up, which is equivalent to a [Page Up] button (commonly used)
[Ctrl] + [d]	Move half of the screen down
[Ctrl] + [u]	Move half of the screen "up"
+	Move the cursor to the next column with a non-space character
-	Move the cursor to the previous column of a non-space character
N <space>	That n represents a number, for example, 20. Press the number and then press the Space key. The cursor will move the n characters in the line to the right. For example, if the value is 20 <space>, the cursor moves the distance of 20 characters to the backend.
0 or function key [Home]	This is the number "0": Move to the top character of this line (commonly used)
$ Or function key [End]	Move to the last character of this line (commonly used)
H	Move the cursor to the first character in the line at the top of the screen
M	Move the cursor to the first character in the middle of the screen
L	Move the cursor to the first character in the row at the bottom of the screen
G	Move to the last line of the file (frequently used)
NG	N is a number. The Nth row of the file. For example, 20 GB will be moved to the 20th rows of this file (can be used with: set nu)
Gg	Moving to the first line of this file is equivalent to 1 GB! (Common)
N <Enter>	N is a number. Move the cursor down n rows (commonly used)
Search and replace
/Word	Search for a string named word under the cursor. For example, to search for the vbird string in the file, enter/vbird! (Common)
? Word	Search for a string named word over the cursor.
N	This n is an English button. Indicates the action that repeats the previous search. For example, if we just run/vbird to search for the vbird string, press n to continue searching for the next string named vbird. If it is execution? Press n to search for a string named vbird!
N	This N is an English button. Opposite to n, This is the previous search action for "reverse. For example, after/vbird, press N to search for vbird "up.
It is very helpful to use/word with n and N! You can repeat to find some keywords you are searching!
: N1, n2s/word1/word2/g	N1 and n2 are numbers. Search for the word1 string between line n1 and line n2 and replace it with word2! For example, if you search for vbird between 100 and 200 and replace it with VBIRD: ": 100,200 s/vbird/VBIRD/g 』. (Common)
: 1, $ s/word1/word2/g	Search for the word1 string from the first row to the last row and replace it with word2! (Common)
: 1, $ s/word1/word2/gc	Search for the word1 string from the first row to the last row and replace it with word2! The prompt characters are displayed before replacement to confirm (confirm) whether to replace! (Common)
Delete, copy, and attach
X, X	In a row, x deletes a character (equivalent to a [del] Key), and X deletes a character (equivalent to a [backspace] or a backspace key) (commonly used)
Nx	N is a number and n characters are deleted consecutively. For example, I want to delete 10 characters in a row, "10x 』.
Dd	Delete the whole row of the cursor (commonly used)
Ndd	N is a number. Delete the n-down column where the cursor is located. For example, 20 dd deletes 20 columns (commonly used)
D1G	Delete all data from the cursor to the first row
DG	Delete all data from the cursor to the last row
D $	Delete the cursor to the last character of the row
D0	That is the number 0, where the cursor is deleted, to the beginning of the row.
Yy	Copy the row of the cursor (commonly used)
Nyy	N is a number. Copy the n-down column where the cursor is located. For example, if 20yy is used, 20 columns are copied (commonly used)
Y1G	Copy all data from the cursor column to the first column
YG	Copy all data from the column where the cursor is located to the last column
Y0	Copy the character of the cursor to all data at the beginning of the row.
Y $	Copy all data from the character with the cursor to the end of the row.
P, P	P: to paste the copied data to the next row of the cursor, P is to paste the row on the cursor! For example, I have already copied 10 rows of data with the cursor in 20th rows. After you press p, the 10 rows of data will be pasted after the original 20 rows, that is, from 21 rows. But what if I press P? Then the original 20th rows will be pushed to 30 rows. (Common)
J	Combine the cursor column with the data in the next column into the same column
C	Multiple data records are deleted repeatedly, for example, 10 rows are deleted down and [10cj]
U	Restore the previous action. (Common)
[Ctrl] + r	Redo the previous action. (Used)
This u and [Ctrl] + r are very common commands! One is restoration, the other is redo once ~ With these two buttons, you can edit them! Happy!
.	Don't doubt! This is the decimal point! It means to repeat the previous action. If you want to repeat the deletion, repeat, and so on, just press the decimal point! (Common)

Part 2: Description of available buttons for switching from normal mode to edit mode

Enter the insert or replace edit mode
I, I	Insert mode ): I is "insert from the current cursor", I is "insert from the first non-space character in the current row 』. (Common)
A,	Insert mode ): A is "insert from the next character of the current cursor", and A is "insert from the last character of the row where the cursor is located 』. (Common)
O, O	Insert mode ): This is the case of the English letter o. O is to insert a new row in the next row where the current cursor is located. O is to insert a new row in the previous row where the current cursor is located! (Common)
R, R	Enter Replace mode ): R will replace the character where the cursor is located only once; R will replace the text where the cursor is located until ESC is pressed; (commonly used)
In the buttons above, the words "-- INSERT --" or "-- REPLACE --" will appear in the lower left corner of the vi image. Let's know the action by name !! Note that we have mentioned above that when you want to input characters in the file, you must see INSERT or REPLACE in the lower left corner before entering the characters!
[Esc]	Exit edit mode and return to normal mode (commonly used)

Part 3: Description of the buttons available for switching from general mode to command column Mode

Commands for storing and removing command Columns
: W	Write edited data to Hard Disk Files (frequently used)
: W!	If the file attribute is "read-only", the file is forcibly written. However, whether the file can be written is related to the permission on the file!
: Q	Exit vi (commonly used)
: Q!	If you have modified an archive and do not want to store it, use it! To force exit without storing files.
Note that the exclamation point (!) In vi, it often means "forced ~
: Wq	Save and exit. If it is: wq! It is forced to save and leave (commonly used)
ZZ	This is an uppercase Z! If the file is not changed, it will not be stored and left. If the file has been changed, it will be stored and left!
: W [filename]	Save edited data to another file (similar to storing new files)
: R [filename]	Read the data of another archive in the edited data. Add the file "filename" to the end of the row where the cursor is located.
: N1, n2 w [filename]	Store content from n1 to n2 as filename.
:! Command	The result of Executing command in command column mode is displayed when vi is temporarily removed! For example 『:! Ls/home> to view the ls output file information under/home in vi!
Vim Environment Change
: Set nu	Displays the row number. After the row is set, the row number is displayed in the prefix of each row.
: Set nonu	Opposite to set nu, the row number is canceled!

Note that in vi/vim, numbers are meaningful! A number usually indicates repeated times! It may also mean what to go.

For example, to delete 50 rows, use "50dd", right! Before the action, what if I want to move 20 rows down? That is, "20j" or "20 Jun.

For more Vim tutorials, see the following:

Build Vim into a simple and practical IDE

Vim Learning Guide

Quick learn Vi Editor

Powerful Vim Editor

Build a Vim Development Environment on CentOS 6.2

Install the highlighted Vim editing tool in CentOS 5.4

Vim tips: C language settings

Set the Vim row number in Ubuntu

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