Some very useful VIM tricks for the Linux/UNIX user.

VIM is a very useful and versatile editor for Linux. This is how to use it to its full potential. Some great VIM tricks to help for a Linux user or programmer.

To read the output of a command into a text file, use the :r command in the command mode, and then a Linux command.

:r ls -hula

This will print the output of the command into a text file.

To use the sudo command, do it like this.

:r !sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb

This will put the output of the command into the text file.

To read a text file to the existing buffer, use this command in command mode.

:r love.cpp

Then, the text file will be printed in the buffer.

  3 #include <stdio.h>
  4 
  5 int main (void) {
  6 int i;
  7 i = 0;
  8         while (i < 9) {
  9                 printf("Eternal love to Athena.\n");
 10                 i++;
 11         }
 12         return 0;
 13 }

Very nice .vmrc file for the Linux user.

https://securitronlinux.com/uncategorized/my-nice-vimrc-file/.

To open a file at a certain line, start it like this: vim +567 file.txt. This will open the file file.txt on line 567.

Open VIM like this, if you wish to open a text file at the first occurrence of the word “mplayer”

4.4 Wed Jan 22 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ vim macintosh.txt +/mplayer

Very useful infographics and e-books to help learn the VIM editor.

https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/very-useful-vim-tutorial-pdf/.