Dr. Tom V. Mathew
February 7, 2013
Vim is very good and professional text editor. We need editors to create source for c/c++/fortran programming. Use the links at the section 3 to learm VI/VIM.
home/user> vimtutor |
at the linux command line to get tutor file |
:help |
inside vim to get general help |
:help set |
get help on the command set |
vim file.txt |
open the file with file.txt |
i |
start insert text mode command |
my text |
type some test |
Esc |
escape from the insert mode |
:wq |
write to the file and quit |
| command | description |
yy |
copy one line |
4yy |
copy 4 line |
dd |
delete one line |
4dd |
delete 4 line |
p |
paste after the current cursor location |
P |
paste before the current cursor location |
g* |
keep the cursor in a word and them issue this command to search for that word forward |
g# |
keep the cursor in a word and them issue this command to search for that word backward |
gq} |
keep the cursor at the beginning of a paragraph and issue the command to format that paragraph |
gq) |
keep the cursor at the beginning of a line and issue the command to format that line |
. |
repeat the previous command |
| command | description |
/car |
To search for word car |
n |
Repeat the previous search forward |
N |
Repeat the previous search backwar |
:%s/xx/yy/c |
search for the word xx and replace with yy. It ask a confirmation every time |
:%s/xx/yy/g |
search for the word xx and replace with yy. It is gloable replacement with out confirmation |
:g/xx |
list all the lines that contains the word xx |
| command | description |
:77 |
cursor goes to the line 77 |
:$ |
cursor goes to the last line |
:r file.txt |
read the contents of file.txt to the current file |
:split |
split the file into two |
:edit f1.c |
open f1.c for editing |
:next |
show the next file it it is opened |
:next |
show the previous file it it is opened |
:vsplit |
split vertically |
:vsplit f2.c |
split vertically v2.c |
: |
| command | description |
| [ctrl+] y | copy from the above line |
| [ctrl+] e | copy from the below line |
| [ctrl+] w w | switch to next window |
| [ctrl+] w + | increase the size of the window |
| [ctrl+] w = | set the size equal to all the windows |
| command | description |
| vim f1.c f2.c | open f1.c and f2.c |
| :next | show the next file |
| :n | show the next file |
| :previous | show the previous file |
| :pre | show the previous file |
| vim -o f1.c f2.c | open f1.c and f2.c in each window |
"a3yy |
copy three lines to buffer a |
"ap |
paste buffer a (We can have maximum 26 buffers) |
"A3yy |
append three lines to buffer a/A |
:g/\ <mon\> |
list all the lines that contains the word mon, but does not show monday and summon. That is full word only. |
:set ignorecase |
Ignore case in search |
/xx\|yy |
To search for word xx OR yy in a line |
/.*xx\&.*yy |
To search for word xx AND yy in a line |
/xx.*yy |
To search for all characters from xx till yy |
:10,+5 s/xx/yy/g |
search for the word xx from lines 10 to 15 and replace with yy |
:1,. s/xx/yy/g |
search for the word xx from lines 1 to the current line and replace with yy |
:.,$ s/xx/yy/g |
search for the word xx from lines from the current line till end of file and replace with yy |
vim -s sfile file.tex |
open file.tex and execute the script in sfile The script file coule be any file that contains vim commands. |
:s/apple/orange/g :wq |
This could be the content of a script file. This can be save in file named say sfile |
vim *.txt qq :%s/orange/apple/g :wnext q @q 99@ |
To search in multiple file (say all txt files) and do the changes |
> |
Indent the code |
:set ai |
Set auto indent while coding |
% |
issue this at { or ( and this command will find the closing match |
* |
issue this at a word and this command will search similar words |