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copied!<p>There are plenty of nice and interesting tutorials. One example is</p> <p><a href="http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html</a></p> <p>But the broad structure that most of them would give you is</p> <ol> <li>There are two main modes for editing - Command mode and insert mode. You can move from insert mode to command mode using the key.</li> <li>You can execute commands in the command mode by typing a single key or a sequence of keys.</li> <li><p>Commands can help you achieve a wide variety of things deletion of lines - dd yanking (copying of lines ) - yy pasting lines below the current line - p pasting lines above the current line - P ( and so on)</p> <p>Most commands in the command mode can be pre-fixed by a "count" to indicate the number of times the command has to be executed. For example, 3dd would delete three lines.</p> <p>One set of commands in the command mode lets you move to the insert mode. That is explained below. </p></li> <li><p>There are different ways of entering the insert mode from the command mode. Prominent among them are (i-insert at cursor, I-insert at beginning of line, o-insert a line below, O-insert a line above, a-append, A-append at end of line. </p></li> </ol> <p>The quick reference at </p> <p><a href="http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/vim/vim.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/vim/vim.pdf</a></p> <p>Will help you understand the relevance of "count"</p>

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