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Quittin

Exit, saving changes

Exit as long as there have been no changes

ZZ Exit and save changes if any have been made

:q! Exit and ignore any changes

Insertino Text

Insert before cursor

Insert before line

Append after cursor

Append after line

Open a new line after current line

Open a new line before current line

Replace one character

R IReplace many characters

Deleting Text

Almost all deletion commands are performed by

ing d followed by a motion,

dw Delete word

Delete character to the right of cursor

Delete character to the left of cursor

Delete to the end of the line

dd Delete current line

Delete current line

Yanking Text

Almost all yank commands are performed by typing

followed bv a motion.

y$IYank to the end of the line

yy Yank the current line

:y Yank the current line

Changing text

The change command is a deletion command that

leaves the editor in insert mode,

is performed by

Ping c followed by a motion.

cw Change word

Change to the end of the line

cc Change the whole line

PuUi no text

Put after the position or after the line

Put before the position or before the line

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{

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Ctrl+u

Ctrl+d

fstring

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Motion

Move left

Move down

Move up

Move right

Move to next word

Move to next blank delim ited word

Move to the beginning of the word

Move to the beginning of blank delimited word

Move to the end of the word

Move to the end of blank delimited word

Move a sentence back

Move a sentence forward

Move a paragraph back

Move a paragraph forward

Move to the beginning of the line

Move to the end of the line

Move to the first line of the file

Move to the last line of the file

Move to nth line of the file

Move forward to c

Move back to c

Move to top of screen

Move to middle of screen

Move to button of screen

Page up

Page down

Move to associated ( ), { }, [

Search for strinas

Search forward for string

?string Search back for string

Search for next instance of string

Search for previous instance of string

Other

TOggle capital and lower-case

Join lines

Repeat last text-changing command

Undo last change

Undo all changes to line

Based on

Buffers

Named buffers may be specified before any deletion, change, yank or put

command, The general prefix has the form "c where c is any lowercase

character. for example, "adw deletes a word into buffer a, It may

thereafter be put back into text with an appropriate "ap.

Markers

Named markers may be set on any line in a file. Any lower case leiter

be a marker name. Markers ma also be used as limits for ran

Set marker c on this line

Go to beginning of marker cline.

Go to first non-blank character of marker clin

es.

Replace

The search and replace function is accomplished with the :s command. It

is commonl used in combination with ran es or the: command below.

:sfpatternfstring/flags Replace pattern with string according to flags.

Flag - Replace all occurrences of pattern

Flag - Confirm replaces.

Repeat last :s command

Counts

Nearly every command may be preceded by a number that specifies how

many times it is to be performed. For example, 5dw will delete

words

Ranges

Ranges may precede most "colon" commands and cause them to be

executed on a line or IinesJ'or example :3,7d would delete lines 3-7.

:n,m

:'c

:g/pattern/

:wfile

:r file

file

!!program

Range Lines n-m

Range - Current line

Range - Last line

Range - Marker c

Range - All lines in file

Range - All lines that contain pattern

Files

Write to file

Read file in after line

Go to next file

Go to previous file

Edit file

Replace line with output from program

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