Computer Science - Linux - Discussion

x delete single character under the cursor.
Nx delete N characters, starting with character under cursor
dw delete the single word beginning with a character under the cursor
dNw delete N words beginning with character under cursor;

e.g., d5w deletes 5 words
D delete the remainder of the line, starting with current cursor position
* dd delete entire current line
Ndd or dNd delete N lines, beginning with the current line;
e.g., 5dd deletes 5 lines

vim latest version and vi show all contain. importance of line does not matter accordingly.

vim views us all heading in colourful words it means importance heading where we need to know everything.

vi command is used to open and create a file.

on the command prompt, by typing vi filename.c we can either create a file or open.

vi editor is one of editor in linux environment. vim is its newer virsion. so we can use vi or vim as an editor.

vi is the text editor, its a screen editor which shows how much of the file as it can fit on the screen.

Anyone tell me that why we can use X for a single vi editor character?

Please someone can tell me how to use the vi or vim editor command?

Just type vi file_name to create the file and vi is the editor.

Please, can anyone tell me, hot to use this command?

Why X is used? Can anyone justify this please?