The VI editor modes is the most popular and classic text editor in Linux. VI editor has three modes of operations
- Insert mode
- Ex Mode (Extended Command Mode)
- Command Mode
Insert Mode
- I – Insert the text at the current cursor position
- a – Adds the text after the current cursor position
- A – Adds the text at the end of the line
- o – Insert the text one line below the current cursor position
- O – Insert the text one line above current cursor position
Ex Mode
- :q – Quit without saving text
- :q! – Quite forcefully without saving text
- :w – Write input text
- :wq – Write and quite
- :wq! – Write and quite forcefully
- :5 – Cursor goes to line 5
- :se nu – show line numbers
- :se nonu – Remove line numbers
Command Mode
- dd – Delete a line
- sdd – Delete ‘s’ line
- yy – Copy a line
- syy – Copy ‘s’ line
- p – Put (our text)
- u – Undo Changes
- G – Moves the cursor to the last line of the file
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