GEDIT COMMAND LIST HOW TO

Now that you know how to move around in VIM you’re probably wondering, “how do I type in VIM?” To begin typing mode you’ll need to enter “insert mode”. The zz command in normal mode will center the line that the cursor is on. In normal mode you can move to the top of the window with “H”, move to the middle of the screen with “M”, and move to the bottom of the screen with “L”. You can also move right to the top of the document with VIM with gg and move to the bottom of the document with G.

8w will move you forward one word whereas 4b will move you back 4 words. Like h, j, k, and l you can use w and b with counts. You can also add “counts” to these movements. The keys move you around the file as follows: To start Navigating in VIM you’ll use the h, j, k, and l keys. You can also run several commands on the file that is open. This isn’t a mode where you can type in the file but you can yank (copy), paste, move around text, and navigate a file. When you start up VIM, whether with a file open or not, you’ll be in “normal mode”. This theme may look a little old school but VIM does have a lot of different themes. Here is VIM opened with a markdown file (of VIM themes 🙂 ): VIM with markdown file open This will then open a file called “file-name.txt”. You can also start VIM right up in a file with the command: vim file-name.txt To open VIM you’ll type the following command in the command line: vimĪfter pressing enter you’ll be taken to the welcome screen for VIM ( opened up in the Terminator terminal): VIM Welcome Screen When you open up VIM you’ll typically be opening it in a terminal. For an experienced VIM user editing can be more efficient, however there is nothing that can hold you back from advanced programming in Gedit. VIM also has a lot of key combinations that speed up the editing process for the experienced user whereas Gedit uses more of the standard keybindings.

VIM and Gedit are text editors so what’s the difference? One of the key difference is that VIM is typically run in the terminal and Gedit is a GUI (graphical user interface) text editor.

Gedit command list