Vi Tips

Vi ("vee-eye") is an older text editor that's popular with some Unix users. Here are a few vi tips to make you more productive. (Please note that you must be in vi's command mode before you type these commands. Typing ESC twice will make sure that you are in command mode.)

• To delete all blank lines:

  :g/^$/d

• To jump to line number 78:

  78G

• To replace every instance of apples with oranges:

  % s/apples/oranges/g