| Tip 27 | Meet Vim’s Command Line |
Command-Line mode prompts us to enter an Ex command, a search pattern, or an expression. In this tip, we’ll meet a selection of Ex commands that operate on the text in a buffer, and we’ll learn about some of the special key mappings that can be used in this mode.
- Command
- Effect
- :[range]delete [x]
Delete specified lines [into register x]
- :[range]yank [x]
Yank specified lines [into register x]
- :[line]put [x]
Put the text from register x after the specified line
- :[range]copy {address}
Copy the specified lines to below the line specified by {address}
- :[range]move {address}
Move the specified lines to below the line specified by {address}
- :[range]join
Join the specified lines ...
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