Hello guys,

In VI, I stumbled upon a command which display a quick reference of
navigation, etc, which I found pretty handy. But I can't remember what
keys I typed in VI command mode to get into that, does anyone know?

Regards,
Ben

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:15:34 -0700, Benson.Hoi wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> In VI, I stumbled upon a command which display a quick reference of
> navigation, etc, which I found pretty handy. But I can't remember what
> keys I typed in VI command mode to get into that, does anyone know?
>
> Regards,
> Ben

Normal vi does not have such a thing.

"vim" has a lot of . To get navigation you can type

: navigation

and it will tell you about the keys used.

On Jul 23, 7:15 am, Benson....@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> In VI, I stumbled upon a command which display a quick reference of
> navigation, etc, which I found pretty handy. But I can't remember what
> keys I typed in VI command mode to get into that, does anyone know?
>
> Regards,
> Ben

Not all OS's have vim,,,,

Ok A few of the basic vm commands:
Esc - The esc key puts you back in command mode.
o - open a line,
A - append to the end the line,
i - insert text at cursor,
yy - yank a line, copy it to a buffer,
p - paste the line from the yy buffer,

Command mode ( press esc )
j - go down, good to know these in case your arrows are not working.
k - go up ,
h - go left,
l - go right,
/ - search down,
? - search up,

: - ed commands, press sec to get to the command mode 1st, then :
:w write the file
:q quit vi
:w! write it any way, if you have an error message
:q! quit with force,
:w myfile.txt - write to a file named myfile.txt
control-g - status line on bottom of the screen,
:set nu - show the file with line numbers,
:set nonu - turn off silly line numbers,
set list - see all the non-printing chars in the file, tabs, cr lr, so
on handy ...
:wq write and quit, risk of missing messages if file not saved,
shift-ZZ - Like :wq, short cut, risk of missing messages,

Basic search and replace:
:s%/foo/bar/g - change the foo to bar, global ( % ) , and fully left
to right, ( g )
:3,6s/foo/bar/g - like above, just for lines 3 to 6.
:s/foo/bar/ - sub the first foo on the line to bar,

Just 2 cents:

JB

<Benson.Hoi@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1185200134.339617.155930@n2g2000hse.googlegro ups.com...
> Hello guys,
>
> In VI, I stumbled upon a command which display a quick reference of
> navigation, etc, which I found pretty handy. But I can't remember what
> keys I typed in VI command mode to get into that, does anyone know?
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>

Some vi versions have ":viusage" and ":exusage". With the other
suggestions already given, I worked a vi in the eons past that would
accept a ":h" for . I have one now that ":" returns the
messages to use viusage or exusage.

Old Man

<Benson.Hoi@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1185200134.339617.155930@n2g2000hse.googlegro ups.com...
> Hello guys,
>
> In VI, I stumbled upon a command which display a quick reference of
> navigation, etc, which I found pretty handy. But I can't remember what
> keys I typed in VI command mode to get into that, does anyone know?
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>

Some vi versions have ":viusage" and ":exusage". With the other
suggestions already given, I worked a vi in the eons past that would
accept a ":h" for . I have one now that ":" returns the
messages to use viusage or exusage.

Old Man

On Jul 24, 9:04 pm, "Old Man" <reply2fo...@newgroup.com> wrote:
> <Benson....@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1185200134.339617.155930@n2g2000hse.googlegro ups.com...
>
> > Hello guys,
>
> > In VI, I stumbled upon a command which display a quick reference of
> > navigation, etc, which I found pretty handy. But I can't remember what
> > keys I typed in VI command mode to get into that, does anyone know?
>
> > Regards,
> > Ben
>
> Some vi versions have ":viusage" and ":exusage". With the other
> suggestions already given, I worked a vi in the eons past that would
> accept a ":h" for . I have one now that ":" returns the
> messages to use viusage or exusage.
>
> Old Man

Try using ' nav' It is showing the cursor options