Be Productive Using Vim - Learn These 101 Hacks

I have always been an avid Vi enthusiast. And I have tried to keep abreast of the new features in Vi. Did you know Vi has a powerful adversary ? Yes you guessed it right, it is Emacs. But that has not stopped Vi from gaining faithful followers for itself. Myself being one of the staunch supporters of Vi.

Vim is the modern avataar of Vi and is created and maintained by Bram Moolenaar. Vim is choke full of features which would put any other text editor (except perhaps Emacs) to shame.
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Vim - The powerful simple editor

You select any Linux/Unix OS distribution; from the spartan linux which fits on a floppy to the industry heavy weights like redhat and suse; you are guaranteed to find the vi editor. So it is really worth ones time to learn how to use this powerful but simple editor. Vim is the modern version of the vi editor. Learning to use vim (vi) contains an initial learning curve. But the power it gives the user to accomplish complex text manipulation with just a few keystrokes makes the trouble taken to learn worth it.

Here I will explain a few commonly used commands in Vim. Vim (vi) is an editor with modes of operation. There are three modes of operation in vim. They are as follows :
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