vi shortcut keys
Sometimes it is useful to edit a text file with
vi and these keys are the minimum knowledge you require to edit and
save a text file.
X |
Deletes the character at the cursor. |
| Insert |
Press Insert once to start editing the text file. |
:W |
Save the changes to disk. |
:Q or :Q! |
Quite without saving, the exclamation is needed when changes were made and you want to loose all the changes that was made. |
:WQ |
Saves the changes and quite. |
Now vi has a lot of shortcut keys available to
make text editing easy and fast but these are the minimum you need
to know to quickly edit a text file with vi.