Last tip: as you already have been told "D" in command mode deletes from the cursor position to the end of line. To effectively put the cursor to the correct position you can use the "w" command, which moves you to the start character of the next word or "W" to put you to the start character of the next word separated by blanks. The difference is that some characters (i.e. ":", "-", etc.) are also recognized as word boundaries and in a line like this:
if you are at the first character, entering "w" consecutively will put you over the "+", the "d", the ":", the "g" etc.. Entering "W" instead will put you on the "j" first and the "p" next.
You can also use multipliers for these commands, so "4w" on the first character of the line will put you on the "g" immediately.
Hi,
How do you delete from where ever you are to the bottom of the page. I'm pretty sure it was a simple command but can't pull it out of memory.
Thanks,
mgb (4 Replies)
Hi,
I knw its a silly question, but am a newbie to 'vi' editor. I'm forced to use this, hence kindly help me with this question.
How can i paste a chunk 'copied from' a different editor(gedit) in 'vi editor'?
As i see, p & P options does work only within 'vi'. (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I am running a script , working very fine on cmd prompt. The problem is that when I open do crontab -e even after setting editor to vi by
set EDITOR=vi it does not open a vi editor , rather it do as below.....
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$ set... (6 Replies)
Folks;
I know this may sound stupid, but when i use vi to edit in SUSE, i see the file has a lot of underlines, how can i get rid of underline permanently so when i open any file to edit, i don't see any underlines?
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
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Over the past few days I have installed FreeBSD 7.1 (which i'm new at)
to an external Hard Drive.
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/
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I have created a dummy file -demo.txt
On my machine-A (oslevel-5300-08) I can display the file content in HEX format through VI editor using :%!xxd but on other machine-B (oslevel - 5300-06) , I get error as "sh: xxd: not found."
machine-A:
$ cat demo.txt
Hello World !
I can display... (7 Replies)
This is an vi editor question. I do not know is this a right place to ask this question or not?
I have a file with the following contents,
10 11
20 21
30 31
I want to copy first column that is 10,20,30 after second column, so that output will look like the following,
10 11 10
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file::inplace
File::Inplace(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation File::Inplace(3pm)NAME
File::Inplace - Perl module for in-place editing of files
SYNOPSIS
use File::Inplace;
my $editor = new File::Inplace(file => "file.txt");
while (my ($line) = $editor->next_line) {
$editor->replace_line(reverse $line);
}
$editor->commit;
DESCRIPTION
File::Inplace is a perl module intended to ease the common task of editing a file in-place. Inspired by variations of perl's -i option,
this module is intended for somewhat more structured and reusable editing than command line perl typically allows. File::Inplace endeavors
to guarantee file integrity; that is, either all of the changes made will be saved to the file, or none will. It also offers functionality
such as backup creation, automatic field splitting per-line, automatic chomping/unchomping, and aborting edits partially through without
affecting the original file.
CONSTRUCTOR
File::Inplace offers one constructor that accepts a number of parameters, one of which is required.
File::Inplace->new(file => "filename", ...)
file
The one required parameter. This is the name of the file to edit.
suffix
The suffix for backup files. If not specified, no backups are made.
chomp
If set to zero, then automatic chomping will not be performed. Newlines (actually, the contents of $/) will remain in strings
returned from "next_line". Additionally, the contents of $/ will not be appended when replacing lines.
regex
If specified, then each line will be split by this parameter when using "next_line_split" method. If unspecified, then this
defaults to s+.
separator
The default character used to join each line when replace_line is invoked with a list instead of a single value. Defaults to a
single space.
INSTANCE METHODS
$editor->next_line ()
In scalar context, it returns the next line of the input file, or undef if there is no line. In an array context, it returns a single
value of the line, or an empty list if there is no line.
$editor->replace_line (value)
Replaces the current line in the output file with the specified value. If passed a list, then each valie is joined by the "separator"
specified at construction time.
$editor->next_line_split ()
Line "next_line", except splits based on the "regex" specified in the constructor.
$editor->has_lines ()
Returns true if the file contains any further lines.
$editor->all_lines ()
Returns an array of all lines in the file being edited.
$editor->replace_all_lines (@lines)
Replaces all remaining lines in the file with the specified @lines.
$editor->commit ()
Completes the edit operation and saves the changes to the edited file.
$editor->rollback ()
Aborts the edit process.
$editor->commit_to_backup ()
Saves edits to the backup file instead of the original file.
AUTHOR
Chip Turner, <chipt@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2005 by Chip Turner
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.0 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-06 File::Inplace(3pm)