Learn Vim Editor tricks

 

:10,20y  - copy contents from line 10 to 20

:%y+     -  copy all content of a file on system clipboard
or
:%y

Press w to move one word at a time, that can be quite useful
Press b to move back one word at a time

dd   - delete a line

5dd  - delete or cut 5 line

y$   -  copy or yank the whole file or end of line

p   -  paste the yanked line after cursor

P   -  paste the yanked line before cursor

1,$d - delete the whole text in a file

shift + d
or
D            -  delete that to end of line

Ctrl + r - redo
u - undo
U - restore (undo) last changed line


:set number   - display number in file
:se nu        - short form of set number
or set the above line to ~/.vimrc file
cat ~/.vimrc
set number

:noh    -  Remove highlighting 

:%s/old_text/new_text/g   - Replace the old_text with new_text in the file

:%s/old_text/new_text/gc   - Replace the old_text with new_text in the file with confirmation

5gg      -   go to line line 5

How to escape forward or backward slash in VIM editor:

It is same as you use typically in linux.

search for all <br/> and replace with <cr\>

:%s/<br\/>/<cr\\>

Even you can use different delimiter @ OR #

:%s@<br/>@<cr\\>@
:%s#<br/>#<cr\\>#

Go to line number 50:

:50

Replace  /usr/local/bin with /user/home:

:%s/\/usr\/local\/bin/\/user\/home/g

Replace  "https://hello.com@#" with hello:

:%s/https:\/\/hello.com@#/hello/g

To search forward a pattern:

/pattern_name      : to search forward
press n to see next occurrence 

Open file with Line Number:

vim +"set number" file-name.txt

Add the following line in ~/.vimrc file to autoindent in yaml file

autocmd FileType yaml setlocal et ts=2 ai sw=2 nu sts=0
syntax on

I will keep adding to this blog. stay tuned!!