vimEditorNote.md

Notes on how to work with vim (Basics)

Opening vim files type: vim or vi and the files name. eg vim file.txt or vi file.c

Editing Files

After opening the file press escape key esc and press colon : then i to go into insert mode, here you can type all you want.

After typing all you need you press esc and then press w to write it to file, and the press q to exit.

You can also use wq to write and save the file all together.

And you can use capital ZZ to write and save the file without typing colon.

To delete a previously typed character press lowercase s.

To undo you press Capital C and to redo press lowercase u.

And to delete and entire line or sentence press uppercase S.

Navigation

To move to the end of a line you press the dolar sign $ and to move to the start press o.

On Your keyboard keys use the Home to go to start of the line, use your End

To copy press double yy and to paste press p

To go the first line of your document use double gg.

To move to paticular number line press colon then number :10.

Line Numbers

setting line Numbers in a document press esc and then colon : and then setnumber like so :setnumber

To deactivate line numbers :setnonumber.