How To Use The Vim Editor - Avid Technology FastServe Live Edit Setup Manual

How To Use the vim Editor

For the purpose of this manual, we are going to use vim to edit files.These are the most common vim
operations:
• Use the keyboard arrows to find the required position in the file.
• Press Insert to enable the Editing mode.
• Press Esc to disable the Editing mode.
• To search for phrases in the file, exit the editing mode by pressing Esc, type the / key followed
by the word you are looking for. Once found, you can press the n key to go directly to the next
occurrence of the word.
• Type G to go to the bottom of the file.
• Type gg to move to the top of the file.
• Type :wq! to save and exit the file.
• Type :q! to exit without saving.
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