(Greeklish) General things to know about vi

There are two modes on vi

• Escape mode (pou eimaste mesa otan anoigei o vi kai prin patisoyme otidipote)
• Insert mode (patame esc kai eimaste mesa sto keimeno opou mporoume kai na grafoume afou patisoume i or insert

Oles oi entoles tou vi ginontai sto escape mode kai sto insert mode mporoume mono na grafoume

editor commands

• vi filename - anoigoume to arxeio

• esc dd - delete 1 line
• esc d3d - delete 3 lines
• esc x - delete 1 character

• esc 3x - delete 3 characters

• shift+j - anevazw grammi afou prota exw valei ton kersora sti grammi prooris mou
• esc $ - end of line
• esc :$ - last line of text
• esc 0 - start of line
• esc :0 - first line
• w (word) - move a word forward ex 10w - move 10 words forward
• b - move a word back e.x. 10b - move 10 words back
• esc o - add a line below
• esc O - add a line above
• esc u - undo tin teleutaia kinisi (ws teleutaia kinisi orozetai to teleutaio escape)

• esc U - undo all

• esc /keyword - search e.x. esc/test - psaxnw ti leksi test mesa sto keimeno
• n - next search

An kanw lathos pataw esc kai pame pali apo tin arxi!

• ctrl+l - refresh tin othoni

• yy - copy 1 line
• y10y - copy 10 lines
• p - paste (ekei pou tha valw ton kersora to paste tha ginei stin apo katw grammi)
• yw - copy a word
• dw - delete a word
• esc A - Append ksekiname na grafoume sto telos tis grammis
• esc dG - svise apo ton kersora ews to telos tou arxeiou

escape commands :

• :wq - save and quit
• :wq! - save and quit oti kai na exei apo katw!!!
• :number of line - se paei sti grammi pou tou eipes e.x. esc:3 - se paei sti grammi 3
• :$ - last line of text
• :0 - first line
• :w - save
• :w! - save kai min mas ta prizeis - overwrite
• :w filename - save as
• :e filename - edit to arxeio
• :r filename - sou episinaptei to arxeio sto simeio pou eixes ton kersora
• :start,end s/pattern/replace/ - search and replace e.x. :1,$ s/joint/splif/g (an thelw to replacement na ginei globally diladi se olo to keimeno)