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vi (aka vim) tutorial, tips, tricks and useful commands





Where grep came from (RE being Regular Expression):


:

g

/RE/

p




Delete lines 10 to 20 inclusive:


:

10

,

20

d


or with marks a and b:


:

'a

,

'b

d



Delete lines that contain pattern:


:

g

/pattern/

d




Delete all empty lines:


:

g

/^$/

d




Delete lines in range that contain pattern:


:

20

,

30

/pattern/

d



or with marks a and b:


:

'a

,

'b

/pattern/

d




Substitute all lines for first occurance of pattern:


:

%

s

/

pattern

/

new

/


:

1

,

$

s

/

pattern

/

new

/




Substitute all lines for pattern globally (more than once on the line):


:

%

s

/

pattern

/

new

/

g


:

1

,

$

s

/

pattern

/

new

/

g




Find all lines containing pattern and then append -new to the end of each line:



:%s

/

\(

.*pattern.*

\)/\1

-new

/g




Substitute range:


:

20

,

30

s/pattern/

new

/

g



with marks a and b:


:

'a

,

'b

s/pattern/

new

/

g




Swap two patterns on a line:



:s

/

\(

pattern1

\)\(

pattern2

\)

/

\2\1

/




Capitalize the first lowercase character on a line:



:s

/

\(

[a-z]

\)

/

\u

\1

/



more concisely:



:s

/

[a-z]

/

\u&

/




Capitalize all lowercase characters on a line:



:s

/

\(

[a-z]

\)

/

\u

\1

/

g



more concisely:



:s

/

[a-z]

/

\u&

/

g




Capitalize all characters on a line:



:s

/

\(

.*

\)

/

\U

\1

\E

/




Capitalize the first character of all words on a line:



:s

/

\<[a-z]

/

\u&

/

g




Uncapitalize the first character of all words on a line:



:s

/

\<[A-Z]

/

\l&

/

g




Change case of character under cursor:


~



Change case of all characters on line:



g

~~



Change case of remaining word from cursor:



g

~

w




Increment the number under the cursor:



<

Ctrl

-

A

>




Decrement the number under the cursor:



<

Ctrl

-

X

>




redraw:



<

Ctrl

-

L

>




Turn on line numbering:


:

set

 

nu



Turn it off:


:

set

 nonu



Number lines (filter the file through a unix command and replace with output):


:%!cat 

-

n




Sort lines:


:%!sort



Sort and uniq:


:%!sort 

-

u




Read output of command into buffer:


:

r

 !

ls

 

-

l




Refresh file from version on disk:


:

e

!



Open a new window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

n




Open a new window with the same file (split):



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

s



Split window vertically:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

v




Close current window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

c


:

q




Make current window the only window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

o




Cycle to next window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

w




Move to window below current window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

j




Move to window above current window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

k




Move to window left of current window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

h




Move to window right of current window:



<

Ctrl

-

W

>

l




Set textwidth for automatic line-wrapping as you type:


:

set

 textwidth

=

80




Turn on syntax highlighting


:

syn

 

on



Turn it off:


:

syn

 

off




Force the filetype for syntax highlighting:


:

set

 

filetype

=

python


:

set

 

filetype

=

c


:

set

 

filetype

=

php



Use lighter coloring scheme for a dark background:


:

set

 background

=

dark




Htmlize a file using the current syntax highlighting:


:

so

 

$VIMRUNTIME

/

syntax

/

2

html

.

vim



Or, htmlize from a command prompt:



in 2html.sh put:



#!/bin/

sh


vim 

-

n

 

-

c

 

':so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/2html.vim'

 

-

c

 

':wqa'

 $

1

 

>

 /dev/null 

2

>

 /dev/null



Now just run:  shell> 2html.sh foo.py




Document originally from http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~luca/tricks.vim.html



updated and maintained by Greg Lawler

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