OT: vim commands...., Already googled it... Options

[bd1308]

I googled it and came up with information, but none of it could prove to be useful.

if i write something long, like a story or something and I want to edit a word in the middle, is there any way to skip line by line through the wrapped "line" in vim? or do I just have to use the right arrow key for ten days to go through each letter until i get the right one?

[Gint]

Look at the man page and other reference material for vi. vim uses similar commands.

Use "/" and then enter your search term or string. Then use "n" to go to the next of your search terms throughout the file. Then you can use standard vi like replace commands.

Roger came very cose. ":1" will take you to line 1, a different number will take you to that line. "Cntrl-g" will show you what line your actually on of how many lines in the file BTW. Use ":" to enter command mode if not already there. Then, %s/wordtoreplace/newword vim doesn't seem to require the "g" and the end to make the change global as vi does. So if you only want to change one word, you'll have to use the first method I listed (or one of many other's) or otherwise figure that out on your own.

Jeff's advice is good also. I always use manual line breaks with vi in a long file. It's only a text editor. It wasn't intended for desktop publishing.

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