Questions tagged [vi]

Question 1

I have a script read.sh: read -ei "hello world" eval $REPLY Upon executing chmod +x read.sh and then running ./read.sh, I notice that pressing Esc followed by b or w jumps between the ...

Question 2

I am a long time ksh user, and use bash under duress - both in 'vi' editing mode. One thing that has always niggled - after searching back through history for a command (.e.g <Esc>/needle), how ...

Question 3

I recently hardened my RHEL system, and after that, sudo vi stopped working. When I try to run: sudo vi test.sh I get the following error: /bin/vi: line 23: /usr/libexec/vi: Permission denied /bin/vi: ...

Question 4

I ran into an issue: I have folders with usually 50-150 text files, which I need to modify. sed is not an option, since the changes cannot be automated (sometimes "ss" need to be changed, ...

Question 5

i need to replace some strings and due to some reason, vi or vim is my only options. but the problem is i need this to be done in a shell script, is it possible to use vi/vim in cli mode like sed? e.g....

Question 6

I'm using vim on macOS, I did different tests. Backspace doesn't work in vim with my ~/.vimrc. I saw that when I remove my ~/.vimrc file everything is ok, but whatever I write in it (any writable ...

Question 7

I'm trying to bind C-h to move to the window on the left. Here is my tmux.conf set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color" bind -n S-down new-window bind -n C-l next bind -n C-h prev bind q ...

Question 8

I use Colemak + Bash Vi mode, and have remapped h j k l to h n e i in .inputrc. The original N n keys for repeating search seem to be bound to the same command: $ # Run in command mode $ bind -p | ...

Question 9

For better or worse, I am using rcs to track changes to HTML and JSON files exported from chatGPT. Some of these contain chats with embedded $keyword$'s. These get expanded on ci check in. How do I ...

Question 10

I'm using yamlfix with ale in vim. I followed these steps because I wanted to remove the automatic "---" adding on top of the file every time I save my work (and some others default ...

Question 11

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41901319/how-to-search-for-multiple-strings-in-a-log-file-using-less-command-in-unix I found this. awk '/pattern1/ && /pattern2/ && /pattern3/' file....

Question 12

I use old servers so I've to use vi editor. Problem is that I need to copy logs frequently and it's totally painful to do so. I've to convert that to a file, do SCP then only be able to get the logs. ...

Question 13

For example, I get the manpage for a command using 'K': docker run +------------ cursor is on d # if I press 'ESC-SHIFT-K', I'll get a manpage for docker Now, if I want to get the manpage for docker ...

Question 14

In the default mode of gdb, pressing ctrl+x a turns on and off the UI, and ctrl+x 2 cycles through different split views. There are a number of similar useful shortcuts. I can turn on vi emulation ...

Question 15

By random, I mean neither from top, nor from middle, nor from bootom. The search should return randomly ordered results. eg: I am searching for "failed" in vi editor. I want randomly ordered ...

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Questions tagged [vi]

Make `set -o vi` vim cursor reflect editing mode when in `read`

bash or ksh 'vi' mode - How to jump to end of history (most recent command)?

sudo vi fails with "Permission denied" after hardening RHEL

editing files in batches from a huge amount of data

how to use `vi`/`vim` in cli mode like `sed` [duplicate]

Backspace on vim doesn't work after I create a ~/.vimrc file

Bind C-h in tmux copy mode

How to remap "vi-search-again" in .inputrc?

Disable $keyword$ expansion by RCS ci check in?

yamlfix not using configuration + (neo)vim usage

Highlight for two strings simultaneously in vi or less editor?

Why am I unable to copy to clipboard from vi editor?

How do I get the man page for a sub command using vim?

quick-swap TUI mode while using vi keybindings in GDB

How to do a random search in vi editor?

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