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Basic Vim editing for beginners

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Vim is a Powerful console-based text editor. It is full of features. But in this tutorial we will only see the basic editing with the vi/vim editor. After going through this you will be able to do most of the essential tasks with vim without spending a lot of time for learning all of vim. Read more »

Vim Commands Cheat Sheet

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Vim has been a Unix/Linux programmer's friend since decades, once you get a strong grip on its commands you can do things much faster in a few keystrokes, for example : you need not even use arrow keys to move the cursor instead use ' position by character ' commands which is given in 1st table Here is a list of useful vim commands arranged in groups, helpful for quick reference. Read more »

Show Asterisks for Password input in Linux/Mac terminal

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Whenever you are prompt to enter your password in your linux/mac terminal you cannot see the number of characters typed i.e. you don't get any visual feedback so you may sometimes mess up your password. with the simple steps below you can view asterisks (*) for your entered password. Read more »