How to use VI to search for lines less than a certain length?
Use /^.\{,25}$/ to find lines shorter than 25 characters.
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Backward search in vi-mode [closed]
You can bind history-incremental-search-backward to any key, for example: bindkey -M vicmd ‘?’ history-incremental-search-backward
Vi/Vim restore opened files
You can map using :mksession and :source to a set of keys for easy saving and restoring. Here’s an example from my .vimrc that uses F2 and F3: map <F2> :mksession! ~/vim_session <cr> ” Quick write session with F2 map <F3> :source ~/vim_session <cr> ” And load session with F3
Getting the current row number?
What do you mean by “output”? You can do: :echo line(“.”) + 1 To display the current line number plus 1. You can bind a keystroke with map, eg: :noremap <F1> :echo line(“.”) + 1<cr> To actually insert the data into the buffer: :noremap <F1> :execute “normal! i” . ( line(“.”) + 1 )<cr>
Is there a short cut for going back to the beginning of a file by vi editor?
After opening a file using vi 1) You can press Shift + g to go the end of the file and 2) Press g twice to go to the beginning of the file NOTE : – g is case-sensitive (Thanks to @Ben for pointing it out)
Delete from the current cursor position to a given line number in vi editor
You could use something like d63G to delete from the current line until line 63.
How can I delete multiple lines in vi?
I find this easier Go VISUAL mode Shift+v Select lines d to delete https://superuser.com/questions/170795/how-can-i-select-and-delete-lines-of-text-in-vi
/etc/apt/sources.list” E212: Can’t open file for writing
Vim has a builtin help system. Running :h E212 inside Vim prints the following: For some reason the file you are writing to cannot be created or overwritten. The reason could be that you do not have permission to write in the directory or the file name is not valid. You might want to edit … Read more