A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
You can format/indent an entire file using the vim editor and the gg=G command. gg – Goto the beginning of the file = – apply indentation G – till end of file If you decide not to indent your file, just press u to undo the last operation.
My colleagues don’t like all the bell/beep sounds I make when I’m working in a xterm through my putty ssh client. To please them I’ve added this line to /etc/inputrc to disable bell on tab-completion. set bell-style none
Put this line in your ~/.vimrc set esckeys Another alternative is to install vim aptitude install vim And do the necessary changes on the settings file /etc/vim/vimrc
Different ways of replacing text etc. Replace every occurrence of pattern1 (pat1) with pat2 :g/pat1/s//pat2/g Replace every occurence of pattern1 (pat1) with a newline :g/pat1/s//\r/g In practice this inserts a newline after every occurence of pat1.
This command have to be performed in the vim editor: :%s/hardware ethernet 0:/hardware ethernet 00:/