Vi/Vim

Index of Vi/Vim

• See Vi/Vim master using Vi/Vim
• Tutorials
• Installations
• Usage
  • Command mode (the default mode when you enter Vi/Vim).
  • Lastline mode
  • Input mode
  • Navigation use shortcut key (Moving cursor to wherever you like)

Content of Vi/Vim

• See Vi/Vim master using Vi/Vim

Tutorials

• Vi - write with markdown.
• Daniel Gryniewicz / dang@fprintf.net, Vim Commands Cheat Sheet - this guy had a Hacker Icon at bottom of the webpage too.
• Chinese Tutorials
  • CoolShell's Vim short course
  • Advanced Vi/Vim

Installation Vim

• In Linux, in Ubuntu,excute sudo apt-get install vim
• In Mac OS X, Vim is already in the system, at /usr/share/vim.
  • Configuration Vim
• In Linux, .vimrc is the configuration file of Vim, store at /home/"Yourname"/.vimrc
• In Mac OS X, it's same to Linux, the general configuration file in store in /usr/share/vim/vimrc.
• A configuration in Chinese Mac Vimrc

Usage of Vi/Vim

• Note: "something" I write, it mean what you should input.

• Vi/Vim Modes - Vi/Vim has three main modes

  • Command mode (the default mode when you enter Vi/Vim).
  • Last line mode.
  • Input mode.

• Command mode

  • Copy & Paste cross files - copy from by typing "*yny (n - how many lines you want to copy), paste into another file by typing "*p, and you can check the data currently in register by typing command (press ESC first):register`.
  • Delete
  • Match (), [], {}: "%"

• Last line mode - excute command

  • Delete space: Delete line with spaces: :g/^$/d, delete spaces before the first letter of a line: :%s/^\s*//g, delete spaces after the last letter of a line: :%s/\s*$//g.
  • Excute external command: !
  • Filetype set: :set filetype=c
  • Open and Navigate into n line: vim filename +n.
  • Open and Navigate into first word match pattern: vim filename +/wordname
  • Search - /word, n to next one.
  • Search and Replace - :%s/ori/des/g, example delete "^M" at the end of each line, :%s/ $//g, in order to input ^ you need type Ctrl + v, input M you need type Ctrl + m.
  • Split screen/window by command :split then typing :open 'filename' to edit.
  • Split screen/window vertically by command :split then typing :open 'filename' to edit.

• Input mode - Input text

  • Insert

    Letter - new letter before cursor: i
    Letter - new letter after cursor: a
    Line - new line behind current line: O, Equal to A+ENTER

• Navigation use shortcut key (Moving cursor to wherever you like)

  • Letter

    Letter - Move lef : h
    Letter - Mese right: l
    Letter - Move up: j
    Letter - Move down: k
    Letter - First position of the line: o
    Letter - First Letter of the line: ^(6)
    Letter - Last Letter of the line: $(4)
    Letter - the n'th Letter of the line: n|

  • Word

    Word - Previous word - Beginning: b
    Word - Previous word - Beginning (ignore punctuation): B
    Word - Next word - Beginning: w
    Word - Next word - Beginning (ignore punctuation): W
    Word - Next word - End: e
    Word - Next word - End (ignore punctuation): E

  • Line

    Line - First line of the file: gg (g mean goto, press g twice)
    Line - Last line of the file: G (g mean goto, press g+shift)
    Line - n line: :n (n mean number)

  • Sentence

    Sentence - Previous sentence's head: (
    Sentence - Next sentence's rear: )

  • Paragraph

    Paragraph (Spilt with a blank line)
    Paragraph - Previous paragraph's head: {
    Paragraph - Previous paragraph's rear: }

  • Page-turning

    Page-turning - Full page forward (down): CTRL+f
    Page-turning - Full page back (up): CTRL+b
    Page-turning - Half page forward (down): CTRL+d
    Page-turning - Half page back (up): CTRL+u

  • Screen

    Screen - First line's first non-empty Letter: H
    Screen - Middle line's first non-empty Letter: M
    Screen - Last line's first non-empty Letter: L