Learning the vi and vim Editors

Notes about new things I learned in the book (only the new things).

Chapter 2: Simple Editing

General Form of vi Commands (p26)

Most vi commands follow this pattern:

(command)[number](text object)

or

[number](command)(text object)

That's why it's so important to learn about "text object"

Lack of consistency for "yank"

• Copy
  • cc - whole line
  • C - from cursor to the end of line
• Delete
  • dd - whole line
  • D - from cursor to the end of line
• Yank
  • yy - whole line
  • Y - whole line
  • y$ - from cursor to the end of line