Vim Common commands

Have a certain VIM basis can read this article, can quickly query common commands.

Use VIM to install the following three packages

vim-minimal only provides VI and related commands
vim-enhanced provides VIM commands
vim-x11 offers Gvim

VIM has three modes: command mode, insert mode, ex mode

i→ insert mode, press ESC to return to command mode

Command mode:

X: Delete one character of the current cursor

DD: Delete the current line and save the deleted row to the Clipboard

P: Paste after current position

P: Paste before current position

YY: Copy when moving forward

U: Undo
A: Start insertion after current cursor x position (APPEND)
A: Start insertion at the end of the current line
I: Start inserting at the beginning of the current line
O: Insert above current line
O: Insert below current line
GG: Move to first line of document
G: Move to the last line of the document
R: Replace the character at the cursor
~: Change Case

Ctrl + V: block-based
Ctrl+r Recovery undo

V: Character-based
V: Row-based

Ex mode:

: X or: Wq Save and exit

: q! Exit does not save

: w!sudo Tee% forced save

: Anges/pattern/string/flags

Range can be line number, line number range, search condition (/readme\.txt/),%
The common flag is g (replacing pattern on multiple positions in a row) and I (case-sensitive using the current search)
Eg:%s/\<cat\>/dog/gi

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