- running
vimtutor
in the terminal that has some UNIX kernel will open up a tutorial on how to use the VI/VIM text editor - It's basically a text editor but on the terminal. Believe me that it's way way faster than just manually going through File Explorer or Finder
vimtutor
- There is a version on NeoVIM that will NOT be covered in CS 3377 Systems Programming in UNIX systems that can be accessed (assuming you have neoVIM)
nvim +Tutor
- Remember that if VIM somehow doesn't work, VI might work because VIM is an improved version of VI.
- The pipe operator,
|
, can work with VIM as well, opening, for example, file trees (assuming you have a recent Ubuntu installation, it should exist by default).- The UTD cs1 server does have access to the
tree
command - To look inside of a directory with
tree
, you need ONLYr
or4
permissions because you are displaying information about a directory. If you don't have permissions, it will give you an error message after the last field.
- The UTD cs1 server does have access to the
tree | vim -
- within
tree
, lowercasen
will shift you forward - within
tree
, uppercaseN
will shift you backward
/
means search in vim text editor, so it works like CTRL + F