vi to delete from the beginning of the line till the cursor
Try d0. 0 denotes the beginning of the line.
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Package(Plugin) Management for Vim
I am now using VimPlug for my own Vim setup, and I definitely recommend it. Installation is very simple, and it is fast, pretty and effective! I used to recommend Vundle in this answer. But Vundle is no longer maintained, and there are better alternatives.
How to include forward slash in vi search & replace
Here are two ways: escape the / which is the default substitute separator: :s/usrbin/\/usr\/bin use another substitute separator, e.g., using the hash # character: :s#usrbin#/usr/bin. Note that there are characters that you can’t use as a separator: “, \, | You can review this in the help subsystem using :h pattern-delimiter
Auto-indent spaces with C in vim?
These two commands should do it: :set autoindent :set cindent For bonus points put them in a file named .vimrc located in your home directory on linux
Vim – yank into search register
After pressing / to enter a search string, you can then use Ctrl-R and then type the letter representing the register that you want to use. eg. First, “Ayw to yank a word into register A Then, / ^R A to put the contents of register A into the search string.
How do you open a file from within Vim?
:e <filename> or :Ex <directory> lets you browse for the file from the given directory. :Ex on its own will open the pwd. :enew will create an empty buffer.
How can I insert text in the middle of the line to multiple lines in Vim?
Go to the first foo, press Ctrl–v to enter visual block mode and press down until all the lines with foo are marked. Then press Shift–i to insert at the beginning (of the block). When you are finished and press Esc, the inserted characters will be added to each line at the left of the … Read more
Vim yanking range of lines
Yank lines 81-91 :81,91y<enter> If your fingers don’t like to find the : and , keys, this would work as well (go to line 81, yank 11 lines) 81gg11yy My only use of g is 5gg. To go to the 5th line. 22gg: 22nd line. As jimbo said, it’s really only a modifier for some … Read more
Find and Replace within selection in `vi`
Select the text in visual mode (I assume that’s what you’re doing), then press : to start typing a command, you’ll see something like this appear in the command line: :'<,’> That means that the command will apply to the selection. Then type s/search/replace/ and hit enter. (Add a g after the third slash if … Read more
Hide all (not)matching lines in Vim
Do you know about the :global command? Does this do what you want? :g/ERROR and for the opposite: :g!/Error or equivalently: :v/Error