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Vi EDITOR:
CUSTOMISE SESSION	INPUT CMDs	MOVEMENT	DELETING TEXT
COPY AND PASTE	BRINGING IN TEXT	MODIFYING	SAVING AND QUIT
EDITING

THE PROJECT To document my commonly used "vi" commands.

CUSTOMISE SESSION
:set showmode	;see what mode you are in
:set noshowmode	;turns this off
:set nu	;show line numbers
:set nonu	;turns this off
:set ic	;ignore case on search
:set list	;display invisible chars
:set nolist	;hide invisible chars
:set	;display all variable set
:set all	;displays all possible vi variables and their current settings
.exrc	;create in home dir, one cmd per line without the :

INPUT CMDs
a	;append after cursor
A	;append at line end
i	;insert before cursor
I	;insert at beginning of the line
o	;opens a new line below cursor
O	;opens a new line above cursor

MOVEMENT
h	;left one char
l	;right one char
j	;down one line
k	;up one line
w	;forward one word
b	;backward one word
e	;end of current word
0 or ^	;moves beginning of line
^	;goto line start
$	;goto line end
G	;goto last line
1G	;goto first line
:21	;goto line 21
21G	;goto line 21
^F	;forward one screen
^B	;backward one screen
^D	;down half a screen
^U	;up half a screen
^L	;refreshes screen

DELETING TEXT
x	;deletes one char
dw	;deletes one word
dd	;deletes one line
D	;deletes to end of line
4dd	;deletes four lines
:5,10d	;deletes lines 5 through 10

COPY AND PASTE
5yy	;yank a copy of 5 lines
p	;put below cursor
P	;put above cursor
:1,3 co 5	;copies lines 1 through 3 and put on line 5
:4,6 m 8	;moves lines 4 through 6 to line 8

BRINGING IN TEXT
:r file	; insert file at line after cursor
:!cmd	;execute command

MODIFYING
cw	;change word
3cw	;change 3 words
c3w	;as above
C	;change line
R	;replace word
r	;replace char
u	;undo previous cmd
U	;undo all changes to the line
J	;join current line and line below
xp	;transposes chars
~	;change case of letter
:/fred	;search forward for the string fred
n	;next occurrence
:?fred	;search backwards for the string fred
N	;previous occurrence

SAVING AND QUIT
:w	;save
:w file	;save to new file
:wq	;save and quit
:x	;save and quit
ZZ	;save and quit
:q!	;quit without saving
:wq!	;save, quit and override read only

EDITING
:.,+20s/^/aaa	;from current line, for next 20 lines, at beginning of the line insert aaa
:%s/old/new/g	;searches and replaces globally