Reasons to Use Vim over Vi
This page goes over some of the advantages of vim over vi.
To list some useful features:
Multi-level History
- Undo – n u (n is the number of levels)
- Redo – n ctrl-r
Windowing
- horiz split – :new file
- vert split – :vs file
- next window – ctrl-w ctrl-w
- prev window – ctrl-w ctrl-p
Visual mode
- start – v
- finish and…
- move – h,j,k,l
- change – c
- delete – d
- yank – y
- alter case – ~,U,u
Command Completion – tab
Insert Completion
- match dictionary – ctrl-x ctrl-k
- match from includes – ctrl-x ctrl-i
- match line – ctrl-x ctrl-l
- current file
- next match – ctrl-n
- prev match – ctrl-p