Joel D. Kinard CISSP, CIAM, EIT
205 Airport Road
Monroe , NC 28110
Email address: jdkinard@gmail.com

Credit goes to:

University of Colorado Boulder
© The Regents of the University of Colorado

vi Commands

Window motions: <CTRL>d -- Scroll down (half a screen); <CTRL> -- Scroll up (half a screen); <CTRL>f -- Page forward; <CTRL>b -- Page backward; /string -- Search forward; ?string -- Search backward; n -- Repeat search; N -- Repeat search reverse; G -- Go to last line; nG -- Go to line n :n -- Go to line n; <CTRL>l -- Redraw screen; <CTRL>g -- File information

Cursor motions

H -- Upper left corner (home); M -- Middle line; L -- Lower left corner; h -- Back a character; j -- Down a line; k -- Up a line; ^ -- Beginning of line; $ -- End of line; l -- Forward a character; w -- Forward one word; b -- Back one word; fc -- Find c; ; -- Repeat find (find next c)
Input commands (end with ESC): a -- Append after cursor; i -- Insert before cursor; o -- Open line below; O -- Open line above; :r file -- Insert file after current line

<CTRL>h -- Back one character

<CTRL>w -- Back one word

<CRTL>u -- Back to beginning of insert

Move text from file old to file new: vi old "a10yy -- Yank 10 lines to buffer a; :w -- Write work buffer; :enew -- Edit new file; "ap -- Put text from a after cursor

Deletion commands: dd -- Delete line; ndd -- Delete n lines to general buffer; dw -- Delete word to general buffer; ndw -- Delete n words; d) -- Delete to end of sentence; db -- Delete previous word; D -- Delete to end of line; x -- Delete character

Recovering deletions: p -- Put general buffer after cursor; P -- Put general buffer before cursor

Change commands: s -- Substitute (ESC) - 1 char with string; cw -- Change word (ESC); cc -- Change line (ESC) - blanks line; c$ -- Change to end of line; rc -- Replace character with c; R -- Replace (ESC) - typeover; . -- Repeat last change

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Rearrangement commands

yy or Y -- Yank (copy) line to general buffer

"z6yy -- Yank 6 lines to buffer z

yw -- Yank word to general buffer

"a9dd -- Delete 9 lines to buffer a

"A9dd -- Delete 9 lines; append to buffer a

"ap -- Put text from buffer a after cursor

p -- Put general buffer after cursor

P -- Put general buffer before cursor

J -- Join lines

File management commands: :w name -- Write edit buffer to file name; :wq -- Write to file and quit; :q! -- Quit without saving changes; ZZ -- Same as :wq; :sh -- Execute shell commands (<CTRL>d)

Parameters: :set list -- Show invisible characters; :set nolist -- Don't show invisible characters; :set number -- Show line numbers; :set nonumber -- Don't show line numbers

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