Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Learn all the basics you need to start editing text in vi or vim.

0:00 - Introduction
0:53 - edit a file in vim (vim filename.txt || vi filename.txt)
1:12 - how to quit vim (:q)
1:50 - saving files in vim, and other ways of exiting
2:12 - what are vim modes (ESC/i)
3:14 - how to delete a single line with vim (dd)
3:30 - how to delete multiple lines with vim (#dd, e.g. 5dd)
3:47 - how to undo changes in vim (u)
4:06 - how to 'redo' changes (ctrl-r)
4:32 - searching text in vim ( /yourtext + ENTER)
5:52 - how to find and replace text in vim ( :%s/yourtext/replacetext/g (+c))
7:23 - Conclusion


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