VI (Linux Terminal) Help Sheet
Geoff Wagstaff / May 3, 2010
We’re really pleased to bring you another Help Sheet. Introducing the VI Help Sheet for all you Linux loving developers out there.
It’s been a while since we released our set of web development Help Sheets for PHP, HTML and CSS, so we thought it was time to release another. This one should keep a lot of developers happily coding away into the early hours of the morning.
So what are you waiting for? Download it. Print it. Stick it on the wall and get commanding.
As always, if you find any errors or typos or anything like that, please drop us a note in the comments.
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Get the PDF (553KB)
Update: Many thanks to Adit Gupta of www.what-a-geek.com for suggesting some more useful commands and for Joe on Smashing Magazine for making a correction to one of the search commands. Thanks also to Oliver in the comments below for informing us of a few other corrections.
Olivier Monachon said,
May 4, 2010 at 09:45 ()
the command ":r appears thrice on the sheet, once under the "inserting text" section, what it does, and twice under "deleting text".
now the good news : very nice sheet, visually and conceptually !
James Gill said,
May 4, 2010 at 14:42 ()
Hi Oliver - woops! Thanks for spotting that, I think we looked at it for so long we must have glossed over that glaring mistake. We'll update the files shortly.
Heinz said,
May 4, 2010 at 16:05 ()
Hey,
this is cool, have you ever thought about setting this up as a wallpaper (1280x1024 etc.)? So no one has to fiddle around with the paper on the desk and the cheat sheet is always available...
James Gill said,
May 4, 2010 at 17:23 ()
Hi Heinz, we haven't made a wallpaper (yet), but if that's something a lot of people would be interested in then I'm sure we could put it together.
Thanks for your feedback!
Don said,
May 7, 2010 at 15:37 ()
Guys,
Sheet looks great, tried to download it and kept getting an adobe acrobat error: "Cannot extract the embedded font 'CCLTNC+MyriadPro-Semibold'. Some characters may not display or print correctly."
Google yielded no results on this message, anyone have any ideas?
James Gill said,
May 7, 2010 at 15:43 ()
Hi Don, thanks for stopping by - glad to hear you like the Help Sheet :D
I believe that error is showing because you don't have Myriad Pro Semibold installed on your machine. This is odd, though, because I compressed text for correct display. I can upload another version in Helvetica if you would like?
ben said,
May 9, 2010 at 22:00 ()
I think you should bring back "panic over" in the title but vary your preposition to make it more interesting.
James Gill said,
May 9, 2010 at 22:08 ()
Hi Ben, I like that idea! Not sure why we didn't use "Panic Over" in the title, but we'll make sure it's in there next time. Thanks :D
Don said,
May 10, 2010 at 16:01 ()
James,
I do not have Myriad Semibold loaded on my machine.
Please do upload the helvetica variant.
Cheers,
Don
James Gill said,
May 10, 2010 at 21:40 ()
Hi Don,
Sure thing, we'll upload shortly.
Thanks.
James Gill said,
May 11, 2010 at 01:47 ()
I've changed the export settings for the PDF. If it's still playing up for anyone without Myriad Pro installed then I sincerely apologise.
James Gill said,
June 3, 2010 at 01:10 ()
VI, CSS2 and CSS3 Help Sheets have now been updated so that all text is outlined - the sheets should be readable on all devices regardless of what fonts are installed now.
Thanks for your patience!
alsemany said,
October 9, 2011 at 11:42 ()
hi
it’s very great information
I love Linux and it’s very great to make it easier
i found this videos which explain how to use VI Editor
http://www.worldwebinar.org/operating-systems/linux/20-how-to-use-the-vi-editor.html
thanks for This information
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