Vim

Write file opened as ‘readonly’

:w !sudo tee "%"

Visual editing can be used to delete any number of lines

Shift+V from point of cursor and press D key to delete

Search and replace

:%s/search/replace/g

Disable search highlight

:noh

Prepend multiple lines with a character

• Shift+V from point of cursor to enter Visual Block mode
• Move up/down to select multiple lines
• : to enter commands
• s/^/#/g to replace first character on the lines with a #

The prompt will look something like when all done: :'<,'>s/^/#/g

Format to certain column width

• Set text width to desired width: :set textwidth=80
• Move to start of file: gg
• Format text from start to the end: gqG
  • Use visual mode the selectively format (don’t move to start of the file in that case)