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