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How To Use Vi Editor?

vi is a very powerful text editor where most of the Linux distributions provide. vim is an improved version of the vi editor with more features. Most of the intersecting features comply with vim. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use vi from start. Open File We will start by opening a text file by providing the … Read more

Vim Editor Commands Cheat-sheet

vim or vi is very powerful text editor used in Linux systems. As they provide a lot of features and used from command line they have a lot of commands and shortcuts. In this page we will list these commands as a cheat-sheet. We will look most used command and shortcuts in this tutorial which makes this … Read more

Vim Undo and Redo Operations

While editing text files with vim we can make some little mistakes or want to revert to the previous states. In Microsoft Word there is features rich undo and revert functions. The similar undo and revert functionalities provided by vim too. List Changes In order to revert back we can list changes and related information. … Read more

Linux Vi and Vim Command-Line Text Editor Tutorial

Linux Vi and Vim Command-Line Text Editor Tutorial

Linux provides a lot of useful tools from the command line. Vi or Vim is one of the very popular text editor used in Linux, Unix, and BSD operating systems. In this tutorial, we will look at different usage examples of the Vim. From up to now we will call Vim which is an improved … Read more

How To Move End of File and Line In Vi or Vim?

Vim and its predecessor Vi are popular command-line based text editors. There is a lot of functionality that the text editor provides. In this post, we will look at how to move cursor end of line and end of the line. One-Shot End Of Line We can move the cursor to the end of the … Read more

Vi/Vim Show Line Numbers

Vi is a popular text editor for Linux and BSD environments. It gives a lot of features to the user. But its learning curve is a bit complex. Actually learning vim is complex but after learning, it is very comfortable to work with text files. Vi is used by the system administrators, users, developers. Developers … Read more

Vim Syntax Highlighting How To Turn On , Off

Vim is old and popular text editor. Vim roots goes to the vi. Vim is improved version of vi. Vim has a lot of features that makes users life better. One of the most loved vim feature is syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting makes text or code easily readable by coloring statements. For this tutorial we … Read more