Vim Text Editor Basics - How to Use Vim on Linux / Ubuntu (Beginners Guide)

Learn how to use Vim Text Editor Basics on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Linux). Learn the basics including navigate, edit, save, and exit a file using Vim. This Vim Text Editor Basics Tutorial is intended for beginners learning about Vim. Vim Text Editor Basics - How to Use Vim is a great place to start learning commands for Linux.

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Useful Commands from Video:

vim /path/to/file - opens up a current file vim somefilename - this creates a new file called somefilename

j k h l / arrow keys - to navigate through the file using vim i - lets you insert text wherever the cursor currently is o - creates a new line under where your cursor and allows to insert text :q! - quits out and disregards all changes to the file :x - saves and exits out of a file :/sometext - vim will try to find sometext inside the file n - will go to the next occurance of sometext N - will go to the previous occurance of sometext :5 - this will go to line 5 in the file dd - will delete the current line where cursor is located 5dd - will delete 5 lines after and including the line where the cursor is u - this will undo the last change made shift+g - takes you to the bottom of a file gg - will take you to the top of a file

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