A Look at the VI Editor - Cursor motion/movements (
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To move your cursors in VI use the following commands (a long list!).
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h |
Move left |
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j |
Move down |
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k |
Move up |
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l |
Move right |
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w |
Move to next word |
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W |
Move to next blank delimited word |
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b |
Move to the beginning of the word |
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B |
Move to the beginning of blank delimited word |
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^ |
Moves to the first non-blank character in the current line |
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+ |
Moves to the first character in the next line |
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- |
Moves to the first non-blank character in the previous line |
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e |
Move to the end of the word |
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E |
Move to the end of blank delimited word |
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( |
Move a sentence back |
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) |
Move a sentence forward |
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{ |
Move a paragraph back |
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} |
Move a paragraph forward |
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0 or | |
Move to the beginning of the line |
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$ |
Move to the end of the line |
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:n |
Move to nth line of the file |
For jumping to the beginning of the document use [[, and use ]] to jump to the end of the document.
Deleting texts: To delete content use d and x. Use x for deleting character to the right of the cursor. Use d with the above operands (motion/movement operands) for deleting. To delete a word use dw (next word). Delete is basically cut, i.e. you can paste the deleted contents. The following are some other delete commands.
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x |
Delete character to the right of cursor |
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nx |
Deletes n characters starting with the current one; omitting n deletes current character only |
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X |
Deletes the character to the left of cursor |
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nX |
Deletes the previous n characters; omitting n deletes the previous character only |
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D |
Delete to the end of the line |
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D$ |
Deletes from the cursor to the end of the line |
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dd or :d |
Deletes the current line |
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ndw |
Deletes the next n words starting with the current word |
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ndb |
Deletes the previous n words starting with the current word |
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ndd |
Deletes n lines beginning with the current line |
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:n,md |
Deletes lines n through m |
Tips: You can edit multiple lines better if you know the line numbers. To show line numbers use the following command.
:set nu
For example, to go to line number 5 use :5
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