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# Why vi Rocks (WIP)
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A collection of commands, command sequences in [vi(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/vi.1)/[ex(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/ex.1) or with 3rd party unitilities.<br />
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These all work with at least [nvi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi) 1.79 and 2.1.3 (unicode).
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#### Yank / delete an arbitrary number of lines
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1) mark the first line: mk
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2) move to last line
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3a) yank: y'k
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3b) delete: d'k
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4) move to new line
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5) paste with P or p
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#### Apply regex to an arbitrary number of lines
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1) mark the first line: mk
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2) mark the last line: ml
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:'k,'ls/regex/power/g
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#### Write file as root
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:w !doas tee %
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#### Diff the file on disk with the file in cache
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:w !diff -u % -
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#### Make a backup of the file on disk
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:!cp % %.bak
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#### Sort all lines
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:%!sort
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#### Sort paragraph
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!}sort
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#### Uniq all lines
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:%!uniq
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#### Uniq paragraph
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!}uniq
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#### Join all lines
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:%j
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#### Select a column (3rd) from formated text seperated by ':'
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:%!awk -F':' '{print $3}'
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