Questions tagged [ex-mode]
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To disable "Entering Ex mode" in Vim
I get the following 10X times a day by accident.
Entering Ex mode. Type "visual" to go to Normal mode.
How can you disable the combo which causes it in Vim?
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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Vim - ex mode command - is there any way to move the cursor position?
In a one line Vim ex command:
I am trying to do a command and then move to another location and execute the same command.
is there any way to move the cursor position (need both left/right and up/down)?
Trevor Boyd Smith
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Where is the vim semi colon mode for Atom text editor?
I have vim-mode-plus installed on atom, however I can't execute commands like ":w" or ":wq" etc.
I believe the mode is called "ex mode". However I thought "semi colon mode" may translate better for some beginning vimmers (vimmers == vim users).
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How to jump to a string in vim ex mode using a bash script
I want to move to the word "internal" in a text file "file1" and delete everything from there to the end of file from within a bash script. This is my vim command sequence :
/internal
execute "normal !dG"
w
When I save this in a text file and pass…
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