You missed two commands I use A LOT: C (whack off the line and insert)
and ^G (WTF am I?)
When is page two coming out which shows the : commands, like search &
replace, block copy, block move, etc?
Then you need the Palm Pilot note version. I have one that was very
popular at the last Unix shop I was at.
Here's my Palm version:
vi Tips
- Search and replace:
:<startline>,<endline>s/<search text>/<repl text>/g
:s/this/that/g
- Moving text:
:<startline>,<endline>m<new location>
:1,2m5
- Copying text:
:<startline>,<endline>co<new location>
:1,2co5
- Delete line that contains "string"
:<startline>,<endline>g/string/d
- Delete line that does not contain "string"
:<startline>,<endline>v/string/d
Ranges:
$ = last line
. = current line
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Cursor Movement
G = end of file
$ = end of line
Interact with Unix
- Execute the command "pwd" on unix and return to vi
:!pwd
- Execute the command "pwd" on unix and capture the output into the file
being edited
!!pwd
- Exit out of the file being edited into unix temporarily
:sh
Read / Write from another file
- Write lines 1 through 10 from the current file to outfile
:1,10 w outfile
- Write lines 1 through 10 from the current file to outfile forcefully
:1,10 w! outfile
- Append lines 1 through 10 from the current file to outfile
:1,10 w >> outfile
- Read from infile to the current file below current line
:r infile
- Read from infile to the current file below line 23 of current file
:23r infile
Misc
- Set line numbers to visible
:set num
George
William Lindley wrote:
>
> I put this together for vi --
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> http://www.wlindley.com/gnu/vi.htm
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