… and if you don’t like that horrible subversion of what a vi-user might expect to be the search feature*, there’s also Meta-G, which is slightly more similar to vi’s usage.
You can also nano +L[,C] filename on the command line replacing L and C with respective line and column number, which I believe is a feature borrowed from vi.
*The search feature is Ctrl-W for “where is”. Firefox users use this in the wrong window at their peril (it closes the current window). Find and replace is on Ctrl-\, which is even more of a subversion.
Firefox users use this in the wrong window at their peril (it closes the current window)
Not just firefox. Also chrome, and a lot of other programs that implement tabs like file managers and things like that. It’s one of those almost universal shortcuts, like Ctrl+F or Ctrl+L
If someone sits down to properly learn all of vim, They become this uber powerful wizard of editing on any Linux distro that exists.
The problem is, I’ve only ever met a few people who are capable of using all of vim, I’ve been using it for 15 years and I still feel like I’m not quite worthy.
Nano
Micro
How do I jump down to a particular line?
I prefer vim
Ctrl-
/
… and if you don’t like that horrible subversion of what a
vi
-user might expect to be the search feature*, there’s also Meta-G
, which is slightly more similar tovi
’s usage.You can also
nano +L[,C] filename
on the command line replacingL
andC
with respective line and column number, which I believe is a feature borrowed fromvi
.*The search feature is Ctrl-
W
for “where is”. Firefox users use this in the wrong window at their peril (it closes the current window). Find and replace is on Ctrl-\
, which is even more of a subversion.I can use
vi
, but still prefernano
.Not just firefox. Also chrome, and a lot of other programs that implement tabs like file managers and things like that. It’s one of those almost universal shortcuts, like Ctrl+F or Ctrl+L
If someone sits down to properly learn all of vim, They become this uber powerful wizard of editing on any Linux distro that exists.
The problem is, I’ve only ever met a few people who are capable of using all of vim, I’ve been using it for 15 years and I still feel like I’m not quite worthy.
Excuse me sir,
:wq
doesn’t work here.:x
echo "text file content goes here" >> myfile.txt
Honestly, yes. Vim scary.
“:wq :q! :0 i esc…”
“Stop it Patrick, you’re scaring him”
Emacs