Vim
Getting started with Vim
Vimtutor.
Run vimtutor from your Ubuntu shell in WSL. This excellent tutorial walks you through a series of DIY-style examples getting you to grips with the basic commands and motions used in Vim. Takes about 30 minutes.
.vimrc
Set up your vimrc properly. The out-of-the-box Vim setup is likely sub-optimal. Set up syntax highlighting, tabs as spaces, live search, line numbers etc.
Useful commands
Search and replace
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
:#,#s/old/new/g | where #,# are the line numbers of the range of lines where the substitution is to be done. |
:%s/old/new/g | to change every occurrence in the whole file. |
:%s/old/new/gc | to find every occurrence in the whole file, with a prompt whether to substitute or not. |