User:Coffnix/VIM Tips

Here are some uses within the text editor via the command line, VI:

Deletes multiple lines that start with certain characters:

:g/^ads/d

Delete determined no. of characters:

:g/^.\{44}/s///

Insert a character at the beginning of the line:

:%s/^/text/

or

:g/^/s//<insert>/g

Insert a character at the end of the line:

:%s/$/text/

or

:g/$/s//<insert>/g

Wrap the line based on a given separator:

:g/separator/s//^v^m/g

Insert the contents of the file at this point:

:r <file>

Replaces the first occurrence of characters in the file:

:g/<change>/s//<changed>

Replaces all characters in the file:

:g/<change>/s//<changed>/g

Replace (999 with (NULL:

:s/([0-9][0-9][0-9]/(NULL/g

After selecting the information block, to indent with two spaces:

:s/^/

After selecting the information block, to indent with two spaces less:

:s/^ //

Delete all characters before the word "Typer" from the file:

:%s/.*\(Typer\)/\1

Delete all characters before the word "Typer" from a line:

:s/.*\(Typer\)/\1

Removes automatic line wrapping from VI:

:set nowrap

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