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title: Basic Usage
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## VIM Basic Usage
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### Open File
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- Run vim or vi and open the given filename.
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### Insert Mode
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- Once opening the page enter I and you will see the text "Insert Mode" at the bottom of your screen. From here you can make any changes you want to the text of your file.
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### Save File
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- :w
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### Save and Exit
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- :x
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- SHIFT ZZ
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- :wq
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### Exit file if no changes made
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- :q
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### Exit file and undo any changes made
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- :q!
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### Display line numbers
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- :set nu
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### Don't display line numbers
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- :set nonu
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### Add syntax color based on prog language used
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- :syntax on
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## About Vim
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Vim is a text editor intended to be used in a CLI (command line interface) environment. It is highly configurable and built with efficiency in mind, without the need of a mouse or a graphical interface. It was built to be an improved version of the UNIX editor 'VI', or VI improved. That being said, VIM also has a GUI (Graphical User Interface) version named GVIM that shares the same core functionality as VIM but allows users additional feature such as additional menu and tool bars.
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