Re: VI Tricks

[Jamon Terrell <JamonTerrell@charter.net>]

(In reference to Kara's /foo comment)

If you're just wanting to find a command you typed a long time ago you could use ctrl+R at any bash 
prompt. Some other neat console 'tricks' are alt+. (try hitting it multiple times also) alt+right arrow 
and left arrow,  and shift pageup/pagedown.  Give them a try :)

--Jamon Terrell

4/16/2002 12:11:16 PM, Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, James L. Burke wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:48:07AM -0500, Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA wrote:
>> > 
>> > It's been my experience that vi rocks and that everyone that uses it seems to know at least one 
trick that I do not know that is really useful and cool.  So, if you use vi, please share some useful 
commands that I might not know.
>
>One of my "tricks" that I used while learning vi was that when I found 
>that I was using a single command repeatedly, chances are using the 
>capitalized version of that command did what I wanted better (e.g. dw v/s 
>D, y v/s Y, etc)
>
>Just something to play with while you're learning.
>
>Oh, and in bash, at the command prompt, set -o vi will make your current 
>xterm run in vi mode. You can /foo to search for commands you entered with 
>'foo' from your history, jklm through your history file (and words) and 
>use standard operators (c, d, etc) on the command line. Very useful when 
>you set some environment variable a few hundred commands ago and don't 
>want to up arrow lookin for it :-)
>
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