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		endur on March 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Know Your Tools – Terminal and Bash Until you want to undo something! Nano is definitely more user-friendly though. Some of the engineers I work with still don't know basic vim shortcuts, like 'w' and 'b'

_lce0 on March 13, 2015 [–]

I use a lot of "yw", "d4w", or "dd" ..

are there others life-saving useful as these?

mryan on March 13, 2015 | [–]

How about find and replace?

:%s/foo/bar/gc

The "gc" will apply the find and replace globally, and ask for confirmation before changing an occurrence of "foo".

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