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How do you select a single line in VIM, when your cursor as at some random point along that line?
I know you can do (v, $) to get to the end of the line, or (v, ^) to get to the start, but when you do (v,$,^) it logically doesn't select the whole line, it selects from cursor, until end, then switches it to cursor until beginning... So this approach fails of course.
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To copy to clipboard, do " + y and [movement]. So, g g " + y G will copy the whole file.
Use ggVG To Select All First, we will press the ESC key to change normal mode. Then we will move to the start of the file by using the gg keys. Then enable the visual mode with the V key and the last step is pressing G which will select from the start of the file to the end of the file.
Press v to begin character-based visual selection, or V to select whole lines, or Ctrl-v or Ctrl-q to select a block. Move the cursor to the end of the text to be cut/copied. While selecting text, you can perform searches and other advanced movement. Press d (delete) to cut, or y (yank) to copy.
5.1. We can select and delete specific texts using the Shift + V keys and then using the dd command. Let's delete the line Welcome to Linux! – Line 4. First, we'll need to open a vi session and press v to be in the VISUAL LINE mode.
Capital V selects the current line in one key stroke; two, if you include the "shift" in shift+v.
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