Most of the time I am using vim editor when I need to edit and modify files. In the beginning it looks strange for the people working on Windows since classical Notepad application is much more simple and the graphical user interface provides more simplicity. Having several modes in vim it is making things a little difficult to understand but the strength of the editor stays behinds these modes. Of course we will touch to the cursor highlighting in vim a little later. What we usually start to learn from using vim is to open a file then press i to enable INSERT mode, make some changes, and ESC to enable escape mode and type :wq to save and exit or :q! to quit without saving. As we all know this is the most basic thing we can perform with vim. Of course within the ESCAPE mode, there are many more things that can be done such as replacing strings, adding line numbers, define number of spaces of an indent ...
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