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Updated on 2025-03-10

Tutorial on using Vim editor in Linux

Vim is a famous powerful and highly customizable text editor similar to Vi. It has improved and added many functions based on Vi. Vim is a free software. Today we will talk about the use of Vim editor.

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vim - Vi IMproved, a program text editor#vi improvements

1. How to move the cursor

Ctrl+f Move the screen down one page
0 (number 0) Move to the beginning of the line
$ Move to the end of the line
G Move to the end
gg Move to the first line
n<Enter> Move the cursor down n lines

2. Find and replace

/word looks for a string named word under the cursor, cooperate with n, search downwards, and search upwards N.

3. Delete, copy and paste

dd delete the line where the cursor is located

yy Copy the line where the cursor is located

u Undo the last operation

ctrl+r  Repeat the previous operation

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