Quick vi Editor Cheat Sheet, Cheat Sheet of Operating Systems

Download Quick vi Editor Cheat Sheet and more Cheat Sheet Operating Systems in PDF only on Docsity! VI “Cheat” Sheet ACNS Bulletin ED–03 February 1995 File management commands :w name Write edit buffer to file name :wq Write to file and quit :q! Quit without saving changes ZZ Same as :wq :sh Execute shell commands (<ctrl>d) Window motions <ctrl>d Scroll down (half a screen) <ctrl>u Scroll up (half a screen) <ctrl>f Page forward <ctrl>b Page backward /string Search forward ?string Search backward <ctrl>l Redraw screen <ctrl>g Display current line number and file information n Repeat search N Repeat search reverse G Go to last line nG Go to line n :n Go to line n z<CR> Reposition window: cursor at top z. Reposition window: cursor in middle z- Reposition window: cursor at bottom Cursor motions H Upper left corner (home) M Middle line L Lower left corner h Back a character j Down a line k Up a line ^ Beginning of line $ End of line l Forward a character w One word forward b Back one word fc Find c ; Repeat find (find next c) Command mode versus input mode Vi starts in command mode. The positioning commands operate only while vi is in command mode. You switch vi to input mode by entering any one of several vi input com- mands. (See next section.) Once in input mode, any charac- ter you type is taken to be text and is added to the file. You cannot execute any commands until you exit input mode. To exit input mode, press the escape (Esc) key. Input commands (end with Esc) a Append after cursor i Insert before cursor o Open line below O Open line above :r file Insert file after current line Any of these commands leaves vi in input mode until you press Esc. Pressing the RETURN key will not take you out of input mode. Change commands (Input mode) cw Change word (Esc) cc Change line (Esc) - blanks line c$ Change to end of line rc Replace character with c R Replace (Esc) - typeover s Substitute (Esc) - 1 char with string S Substitute (Esc) - Rest of line with text . Repeat last change Changes during insert mode <ctrl>h Back one character <ctrl>w Back one word <ctrl>u Back to beginning of insert vi Editor “Cheat Sheet” Invoking vi: vi filename Format of vi commands: [count][command] (count repeats the effect of the command)