Vi tutorial - part 2

Veröffentlicht am: 30 Dezember 2022
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Essentials of Vi editor - part 2

Part 1 video - • Vi tutorial - part 1

Search and Replace
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/text - searches the text.
?text - searches backward
n - repeats the previous search
N - repeats the previous search in backward direction

. matches any single character e.g - /a.c matches both abc, adc etc. Doesn't match 'ac'
\ has special meaning. e.g - /a\.c matches a.c exactly
e.g - /a\\c matches a\c, /a\/c matches a/c
^ - matches line beginning. e.g - /^abc matches lines beginning with abc
$ - matches line ending e.g - /xyz$ matches lines ending with xyz
[] - matches single character in a set. e.g - /x[abc]y matches xay, xby and xcy
e.g - /x[a-z]y matches xzy, xay etc
e.g - /x[a-zA-Z]y matches xay, xAy etc
e.g - /x[/a-z]y // matches x followed by anything other than a lowercase letter followed by y. Therefore 'xay' doesn't match, but xBy matches.
- zero or more matches. e.g - xy*z matches xyz, xyyyyz and also xz
 - e.g - /$xy$*z matches xyz, xyxyx, xyxyxyz etc
/<:.*> - matches any character in between < and >
/<[^>]*> - matches anything in between <>

:s/old/new/ - replaces the first occurrences of old to new on current line
:: - replaces all in the current line

:%s/old/new/ - replaces the first occurrences of old to new of every line in the document
:%s/old/new/g - globally replace all occurrences in the document

You may use any special character other than / for delimitation. For example you may use | or ;

Few special examples.
:%s/test/(&)/g - Here the replacement string is (&), Here the & says the current match. Therefore whatever test words in the document will be put into parenthesis as in (test)

Undoing
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u - undoing the last change in command mode
Ctrl + r - Redo the last change
U - undo all the changes in the current line
. (period) - Repeats last change in your cursor locations

yy - yanks (copy) a line (Similar to dd like delete equivalents) - the yanked texts goes to vi's buffer not to the OS clip-board
yw - yanks a word (just like dw deletes a word)
p - pastes the yanked text after the cursor
P - pastes the yanked text before the cursor

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