Illustrated Unix System V/Bsd

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Appendix G
vi QUICK REFERENCE

This appendix provides quick reference information on how to use the vi editor.

Substitutions

Substitutions are handled by the ex portion of the vi editor. Refer to Module 43 for further discussion about ex and substituting.

Tags

Tags are discussed in Module 43, which discusses the ex editor.

vi Command Table

This table provides a quick reference to the motion and four most used operators combined with the motions .

Unit of Text	Delete	Change	Copy/(yank)	Filter	Indent
Character
Current	x	r	yl	NA	NA
Previous	X	hr	yh	NA	NA
Next	lx	lr	lyl	NA	NA
Word
Beginning next	dw	cw	yw	NA	NA
End current	de	ce	ye	NA	NA
Beginning previous	db	cb	yb	NA	NA
Up to next ip\(dg	dW	cW	yW	NA	NA
Previous ip	dB	cB	yB	NA	NA
Line
Current	dd	cc or S	yy or Y	!!	>>
Beginning of	d0	c0	y0	NA	NA
End of	d$ or D	c$ or C	y$	NA	NA
Previous	dk	ck	yk	!k	>k
Next	dj	cj	yj	!j	>j
Forward to c	df c	cf c	yf c	NA	NA
Back to c	dF c	cF c	yF c	NA	NA
Sen/Para/Sec
Previous sentence	d(	c(	y(	!(	>(
Next sentence	d)	c)	y)	)!	>)
Previous paragraph	d{	c{	y{	!{	>{
Next paragraph	d}	c}	y}	!}	>}
Previous section	d[[	c[[	y[[	![[	>[[
Next section	d]]	c]]	y]]	!]]	>]]
Screen
Beginning of	dH	cH	yH	!H	>H
Middle of	dM	cM	yM	!M	>M
End of	dL	cL	yL	!L	>L
Searches
Previous pat	d? pat	c? pat	y? pat	!? pat	>? pat
Next pat	d/ pat	c/ pat	y/ pat	!/ pat	>/ pat
Marks
Line marked m	d m	c m	y m	! m > m
Character marked m	d ˜ m	c ˜ m	y ˜ m	! ˜ m	> ˜ m
Buffer
Beginning of	d1G	c1G	y1G	!1G	>1G
End of	dG	cG	yG	!G	>G
Line number x	d x G	c x G	y x G	! x G	> x G

Customizing Options

The ex / vi editor has many options that you can set to customize how the editor functions. Please refer to Module 43 for a discription of all supported options.

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