Vim Help

visually copy text

hit v and move the cursor to highlight text. After text selection, hit d to delete, y to yank or else...

mark a line

hit ma to set a mark and save it in buffer a. To get back at the mark in buffer a, hit 'a.

indent/outdent lines

To indent the entire file go to the begining of the file and type =G in command mode
:2,10> indents lines 2 through 10 towards right.
:2> indents line 2 towards right.
:%> indents all lines towards right.
In order to indent towards right use instead of >

case sensitive search

:set ignorecase or :set ic in order to ignore case. :set noic in order to make search case sensitive

searching whole word

surround the word by \< and \>

bash shell in vi mode

set -o vi

tcsh shell in vi mode

bindkey -v