in reply to Learn vi/vim in 50 lines and 15 minutes
You forgot a number of very important commands and distinctions:
- vi's regex language is very different than Perl's. It's much more akin to the shell command grep's. Specifically, there is no + and you only have back-references.
- Aliases:
- Colon Mode:
- :x is :wq
- :NN moves you to the NNth line. :$ moves you to the bottom of the file.
- :!asdf executes asdf in the shell.
- :map X asdfasdf will map the key X to the key sequence asdfasdf. These are macros, to be used in Nav Mode. My favorites are:
- v - :!perl -wc %^V^M (That's Ctrl-V, Ctrl-M.) - compile the current file in Perl.
- V - :!%^V^M - Execute the current file.
- q - :e #^V^M - Switch you to the last buffer. (Read up if you want to know what these are.)
- Nav Mode
- 0 is ^
- z-z moves the screen to center on your line. z-Enter moves the screen so that your line is on the top. (There's on that does it for the bottom, but I never remember it.)
- o inserts a new line below where you are and puts you in Insert Mode at the beginning of it. O does it for above.
- w goes the beginning of the next word. b to the prior. e to the end of the current word.
- J takes the next line and puts it at the end of the current line.
- Colon Mode:
The reason to use vi is that, once you understand it, it's is extremely efficient to edit in. I found that my productivity in sheer editing is almost as fast as I think. (Which, granted, isn't that fast, but still!)
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Re: Re: Learn vi/vim in 50 lines and 15 minutes
by thelenm (Vicar) on Mar 04, 2004 at 01:31 UTC | |
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Mar 04, 2004 at 02:00 UTC | |
Re: Re: Learn vi/vim in 50 lines and 15 minutes
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Mar 04, 2004 at 02:28 UTC |
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