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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), see VimHowto for a "introduction" style

!!!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 character
;V: Visually select by line
;m''x'': Save cursor position into register ''x''
;`''x'': Goto character position in register ''x''
;' ''x'': Goto line in register ''x''
;"''x'': Use buffer ''x'' for next yank/delete/paste operation
;q''x...''q: Begin recording commands (''...'') into register ''x''
;@''x'': Playback commands in register ''x''
;@@: Playback previous playback
;.: Repeat command


!!!Useful examples:
;ct": Change everything until the next "
:g!/foo/d
;: __g__lobally, for every line __!__ not containing the regex "__foo__", __d__elete that line

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Last edited on Monday, October 22, 2007 6:32:28 pm by BenStaz

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