The visual editor on the Unix.
- a very powerful
- Command mode
- Input mode
Error Correction
- CTRL-h Delete a letter
- CTRL-w Delete a word
- CTRL-
- u Delete a line
- d Deletes current character
- dw Deletes to the end of the word
- dd Deletes the current line
- u Undo. “Undoes” the last operation that user performed
- :q <enter> is to exit, if you have not made any changes to the file
- :q! <enter> is the forced quit, it will discard the changes and quit
- :wq <enter> is for save and Exit
- :x <enter> is same as above command
- ZZ is for save and Exit
- The ! Character forces over writes, etc. :wq!
- h - for left
- l - for right
- j - for down
- k - for up
- w - to move one word forward
- b - to move one word backward
- $ - takes you to the end of line
- <enter> takes the cursor the the beginning of next line
- h - for left
- l - for right
- j - for down
- k - for up
- w - to move one word forward
- b - to move one word backward
- $ - takes you to the end of line
- <enter> takes the cursor the the beginning of next line
- Control-d scrolls the screen down (half screen)
- Control-u scrolls the screen up (half screen)
- Control-f scrolls the screen forward (full screen)
- Control-b scrolls the screen backward (full screen).
- yy - (yank) copy current line to buffer
- nyy - Where n is number of lines
- p - Paste the yanked lines from buffer to the line below
- Pico is an easy-to-use editor that resembles Pine.
- simplified version of emacs.
- Although it lacks most of emacs' sophisticated functions.
- Unlike emacs, pico is a shell or terminal-based editor only.
- There are no added benefits of running pico under X window.
- There is no toolbar, but pico always displays a list of commands at the bottom of the screen.
- - Pico does not have as extensive of a tutorial as EMACS, but it does offer a built in help screen. To access it type ctrl-g.
- ^G - Display help.
- ^X - Exit pico, saving buffer.
- ^O - Saves the current buffer to a file.
- ^^ - Mark cursor position as beginning of selected text.
- ^K - Cut selected text. Note: The selected text's boundary on the cursor side ends at the left edge of the cursor.
- ^U - Paste last cut text at the current position.
- ^W - Search for text.
- ^T - Invoke the spelling checker.
- ^L - Refresh the display.
- ^J - Format (justify) the current paragraph.
- ^V - Move forward a page of text.
- ^Y - Move backward a page of text.
- ^F - Move forward a character.
- ^B - Move backward a character.
- ^P - Move to the previous line.
- ^N - Move to the next line.
- ^A - Move to the beginning of the current line.
- ^E - Move to the end of the current line.
- ^C - Report current cursor position.
- ^D - Delete the character at the cursor.
- ^I - Insert a tab at the cursor.
- ^R - Insert an external file at the cursor.
- pico hello.pl
- ./hello.pl
