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This page is kinda intended as a quick way of listing the various nifty commands in vi(1) and vim(1).

!!!Movement Commands
;h,j,k,l: left, down, up, right
;f''x'': Move to next charactor ''x''.
;F''x'': Move to previous charactor ''x''
;t''x'': Move to before next charactor ''x''
;T''x'': Move to after previous charactor ''x''
;%: Goto matching charactor

!!!Action(?) Commands
;c: Change, delete text and go into insert mode
;C: Change line
;y: Yank (copy)
;Y: Yank Line
;d: Delete (cut)
;D: Delete Line
;p: Paste after
;P: Paste before

!!!Misc commands
;v: Visually select by charactor
;V: Visually select by line
;m''x'': Save cursor position into register ''x''
;`''x'': Goto charactor position in register ''x''
;' ''x'': Goto line in register ''x''


!!!Useful examples:
;ct": Change everything until the next "

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