Vim

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Basic Vim

There are two modes - Command mode and Insert mode. Vim starts in command mode; that is, you can type commands. To type text, press i for insert. You can then type as in a normal text editor. To exit insert mode, press esc.

Useful commands

Save/write	:w
Quit	:q
Save and exit	:wq
Search down	/search
Search up	?search
Next search term	n
Search for word under cursor	*
Search/replace	:s/search/replace/
Global search/replace	:%s/search/replace/g
Undo	u
Jump to line number	:linenumber

Copy/paste

1. Press v to enter text-selection mode
2. Arrow to the end of where you want to copy/cut/paste (you can do searches and whatnot here)
3. Press y to copy or c to cut
4. To paste, press p

1. Press yy to copy an entire line
2. p to paste