Jan 12, 2013 · Does vi have any significant advantage over vim? Edit: I think that my question is being misinterpreted. I know that vim is, for the most part, significantly more powerful and feature-complete then vi is. What I want to know is if there are any possible cases where vi has an advantage over vim, such as less memory use, prevalence on *nix ...

Jan 25, 2024 · In vi editor how do I go to a particular line? For example if I open a file named file.py is there an option for open the file at a particular line, or can I open my file and then go to line with keyboard shortcut?

Jan 9, 2020 · I know I've probably looked over this a million times in all the vi documents I've read, but I can't seem to find the delete from cursor to end of line command.

Oct 16, 2014 · In vi I use :%d where : tells vi to go in command mode % means all the lines d : delete On the command line, > test.txt will do also. What is the problem with dd? dd if=/dev/null of=test.txt where /dev/null is a special 0 byte file if is the input file of is the ouput file

Apr 17, 2015 · When I open the file in Vim, I see strange ^M characters. Unfortunately, the world's favorite search engine does not do well with special characters in queries, so I'm asking here: What is this ^M

Is it possible to view two files side-by-side in Vim? If so, how can I set up my editor to do this, and is there a way to diff between the two files within Vim? I am aware of the :next and :prev

Oct 21, 2011 · How can I check what version of the vi editor I have? What's the best way to upgrade it or install vim on Solaris?

I would like to set up system-wide vi settings. I know i can setup preferences for vim editor in /etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc but I don't think my vi on CentOS7 is reading anything from the vimrc files or

This sometimes happens to me: accidentally freezing Vim, in a xfce4-terminal (it's actually the terminal that is frozen). Various xon-xoff solutions (Ctrl-Q ...) had no effect. Although no keyboard shortcut was evident, I noticed that from the terminal menu that the terminal had become set to "Read-Only." Unchecking that restored terminal responsiveness.

Apr 6, 2024 · I opened a file in readonly mode; is there a way to get out of readonly mode? It's an inconvenience to remembering to put an exclamation mark after w every time I want to save.