Note: The tricks are tested on UNIX and may not work on other O/S. This page has RegEx on left side and simple tricks on right side. For new users, suggested approach is to review our introduction page first and then try examples listed on this page. Basic Editing Scroll Page Down, Alt+PageDown, scrollPageDown Scroll Page Up, Alt+PageUp, scrollPageUp Fold (collapse) region, Ctrl+Shift+, editor.fold. This editor is very popular for its robustness to do complex tasks without customized programs. GVIM Regular expression tricks are discussed on this page.

Move down to the word great, press the c and w key, type cool, and then. Lets discuss one GVIM command line expression below. The vi text editor separates operations into insert mode and command mode. This is area where you type further commands to continue execution of expression. Whenever you type : on your keyboard a section is opened at bottom of the file. These short-cuts are usaully invoked with : operator. Its a text editor with several built-in short-cuts to simplify day to day operations of file editing. To view jump list execute following command −įollowing command are based on jump list − Sr.GVIM or Vim or VI - Regular expressions and short- cuts to do complex tasks. The jump list keeps tracks of all the places you’ve been to by tracking file name, line number and column number. You can go backward and forward through that list. You can remember the 'f' by thinking 'forward'. The Vim page down keystroke is Control f. Vim keeps track of your navigation using a jump list. You can remember the 'b' by thinking 'back'. Move cursor to the beginning of the previous word Move cursor to the end of the current word Move cursor to the beginning of the next word We can use following commands for word navigation − Sr.No Move cursor to the beginning of current lineīelow command can be used to navigate to specific line − Sr.No In addition to this, below commands also perform some useful navigation. You can use numbers with remaining commands as well. For instance to navigate cursor 10 line below from current line, execute following command −

To perform multi-position navigation use number with these commands.

Move cursor to downward direction by one line Once you have edited in Vim, make sure to save the file before you exit. Move cursor to upward direction by one line After you have selected the wanted text you can press: y to yank (copy) the content. Below commands can be used for this − Sr.No In basic navigation we can navigate to left, right, up and down by position. In this chapter, we’ll discuss some of the popular navigation techniques which help to improve productivity. Vim has great support for advanced navigation.

Vim page down shortcut