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Chapter 9: The vi, ex, and vim Editors

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Some of the control characters listed in the previous table are set by stty. Your

terminal settings may differ.

Edit Commands

Recall that c, d, and y are the basic editing operators.

Changing and Deleting Text

The following table is not exhaustive, but it illustrates the most common

operations.

Ctrl-W Delete previous word.

Ctrl-Y Insert character found just above cursor. {vim}

Ctrl-[ (Escape) Terminate insert mode.

Command Action

cw Change word.

cc Change line.

c$ Change text from current position to end of line.

C Same as c$.

dd Delete current line.

numdd Delete num lines.

d$ Delete text from current position to end of line.

D Same as d$.

dw Delete a word.

d} Delete up to next paragraph.

d^ Delete back to beginning of line.

d/pat Delete up to first occurrence of pattern.

dn Delete up to next occurrence of pattern.

dfa Delete up to and including a on current line.

dta Delete up to (but not including) a on current line.

dL Delete up to last line on screen.

dG Delete to end of file.

gqap Reformat current paragraph to textwidth. {vim}

g~w Switch case of word. {vim}

guw Change word to lowercase. {vim}

gUw Change word to uppercase. {vim}

p Insert last deleted or yanked text after cursor.

gp Same as p, but leave cursor at end of inserted text. {vim}

]p Same as p, but ...