Some hints and tips for vi/vim.

• Go to line NNN

:NNN

• Cut NNN lines

NNNdd

• Copy NNN lines

NNNyy

• Paste

p

• Undo

u

• Redo

CTRL+r

• Repeat last modification

.

• replace a word :

cw

• Search/Replace : the following line replace string1 to string2 between linges start and end (1,$ modify all the doc)

start,end s/string1/string2/g 

• save

:w

• save & quit

:x
:wq

• quit without saving

:q!

• Disable auto indentation (useful when pasting text block) :

:set noai
:set noautoindent

• File conversion

:set ff=unix
:set encoding=utf-8
:set fileencoding=utf-8

• http://www.eisti.fr/~bp/doc/viavance.html