topic Re: VI command in Operating System - HP-UX

VI command

j773303 — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:00:20 GMT

Could somebody teach me how to go to the first
line of the file which opened by VI?

Thanks .

Re: VI command

Ashwani Kashyap — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:05:05 GMT

press esc key . Then :1 . Hit enter . YOu are now at the first line .

Re: VI command

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:09:15 GMT

Hi Jeff,

enter the number 1 followed by shift-G.
Shift-G by itself takes you to the end of the file.
A number preceeding shift-G takes you to THAT line number.
You can turn on line numbering by entering : then typing set nu

HTH,
Jeff

Re: VI command

Michael Tully — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:56:03 GMT

Hi,

There are quite a number of commands and tasks that can be achieved in vi. Here is a tutorial which is well worth a look.

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

Cheers
Michael

Re: VI command

Nicolas Portais — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:10:06 GMT

Hi,

you'll find a vi refcards in this URL:
http://www.magma.ca/~raywood/vim/vi-ref.pdf

Regards,
Nicolas

Re: VI command

kish_1 — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:24:30 GMT

see this thread is very usefull
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x6b2aeea29889d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Re: VI command

Oren_3 — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:25:01 GMT

if you would like to go to a certain line number you can press simply esc. and the number of the line, as said before.
another useful command is "se nu" - se(t) nu(mber)
witch states for each line it's number - very good for big files and compilation error with line number.

regards, Oren.