{"id":1333,"date":"2010-05-03T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:57:52","slug":"vi-linux-terminal-help-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/vi-linux-terminal-help-sheet","title":{"rendered":"VI (Linux Terminal) Help Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.gosquared.com\/help_sheets\/10\/VI-Help-Sheet-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/10_05_03_vihelpsheet_790x400.jpg\" alt=\"VI Editor Help Sheet from GoSquared - UNIX terminal commands reference\" title=\"VI Help Sheet by GoSquared\" width=\"790\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re really pleased to bring you another Help Sheet. Introducing the <b>VI Help Sheet<\/b> for all you Linux loving developers out there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we released our set of web development <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/archives\/501\">Help Sheets for PHP, HTML and CSS<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>So what are you waiting for? Download it. Print it. Stick it on the wall and get commanding.<\/p>\n<p>As always, if you find any errors or typos or anything like that, please drop us a note in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>New to GoSquared?<\/h3>\n<p>For those of you new to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/\">GoSquared<\/a> &#8211; we design and engineer web applications for site owners to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/livestats\/\">monitor their traffic<\/a> and earn more money from their Site. We run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/\">Liquidicity<\/a>, the blog on design &#038; technology to share our thoughts and content with wonderful people like you in the hope that one day you&#8217;ll use our products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.gosquared.com\/help_sheets\/10\/VI%20Help%20Sheet%20outlined.pdf\" title=\"Download the VI Help Sheet PDF\" onClick=\"javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('\/images\/help_sheets_vi'); \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/doc_pdf_48.png\" alt=\"VI Help Sheet PDF\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" \/> Get the PDF (553KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.gosquared.com\/help_sheets\/10\/VI-Help-Sheet-large.jpg\" title=\"VI Help Sheet full sized preview image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads.gosquared.com\/help_sheets\/10\/VI-Help-Sheet.jpg\" alt=\"VI Help Sheet Full Preview\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aditgupta\">Adit Gupta<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.what-a-geek.com\">www.what-a-geek.com<\/a> for suggesting some more useful commands and for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2010\/05\/03\/vi-editor-linux-terminal-cheat-sheet-pdf\/\">Joe on Smashing Magazine<\/a> for making a correction to one of the search commands. 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