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+*usr_04.txt*	For Vim version 7.0aa.  Last change: 2004 Jun 08
+
+		     VIM USER MANUAL - by Bram Moolenaar
+
+			     Making small changes
+
+
+This chapter shows you several ways of making corrections and moving text
+around.  It teaches you the three basic ways to change text: operator-motion,
+Visual mode and text objects.
+
+|04.1|	Operators and motions
+|04.2|	Changing text
+|04.3|	Repeating a change
+|04.4|	Visual mode
+|04.5|	Moving text
+|04.6|	Copying text
+|04.7|	Using the clipboard
+|04.8|	Text objects
+|04.9|	Replace mode
+|04.10|	Conclusion
+
+     Next chapter: |usr_05.txt|  Set your settings
+ Previous chapter: |usr_03.txt|  Moving around
+Table of contents: |usr_toc.txt|
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.1*	Operators and motions
+
+In chapter 2 you learned the "x" command to delete a single character.  And
+using a count: "4x" deletes four characters.
+   The "dw" command deletes a word.  You may recognize the "w" command as the
+move word command.  In fact, the "d" command may be followed by any motion
+command, and it deletes from the current location to the place where the
+cursor winds up.
+   The "4w" command, for example, moves the cursor over four words.  The d4w
+command deletes four words.
+
+	To err is human. To really foul up you need a computer. ~
+			 ------------------>
+				 d4w
+
+	To err is human. you need a computer. ~
+
+Vim only deletes up to the position where the motion takes the cursor.  That's
+because Vim knows that you probably don't want to delete the first character
+of a word.  If you use the "e" command to move to the end of a word, Vim
+guesses that you do want to include that last character:
+
+	To err is human. you need a computer. ~
+			-------->
+			   d2e
+
+	To err is human. a computer. ~
+
+Whether the character under the cursor is included depends on the command you
+used to move to that character.  The reference manual calls this "exclusive"
+when the character isn't included and "inclusive" when it is.
+
+The "$" command moves to the end of a line.  The "d$" command deletes from the
+cursor to the end of the line.  This is an inclusive motion, thus the last
+character of the line is included in the delete operation:
+
+	To err is human. a computer. ~
+		       ------------>
+			    d$
+
+	To err is human ~
+
+There is a pattern here: operator-motion.  You first type an operator command.
+For example, "d" is the delete operator.  Then you type a motion command like
+"4l" or "w".  This way you can operate on any text you can move over.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.2*	Changing text
+
+Another operator is "c", change.  It acts just like the "d" operator, except
+it leaves you in Insert mode.  For example, "cw" changes a word.  Or more
+specifically, it deletes a word and then puts you in Insert mode.
+
+	To err is human ~
+	   ------->
+	     c2wbe<Esc>
+
+	To be human ~
+
+This "c2wbe<Esc>" contains these bits:
+
+	c	the change operator
+	2w	move two words (they are deleted and Insert mode started)
+	be	insert this text
+	<Esc>	back to Normal mode
+
+If you have paid attention, you will have noticed something strange: The space
+before "human" isn't deleted.  There is a saying that for every problem there
+is an answer that is simple, clear, and wrong.  That is the case with the
+example used here for the "cw" command.  The c operator works just like the
+d operator, with one exception: "cw".  It actually works like "ce", change to
+end of word.  Thus the space after the word isn't included.  This is an
+exception that dates back to the old Vi.  Since many people are used to it
+now, the inconsistency has remained in Vim.
+
+
+MORE CHANGES
+
+Like "dd" deletes a whole line, "cc" changes a whole line.  It keeps the
+existing indent (leading white space) though.
+
+Just like "d$" deletes until the end of the line, "c$" changes until the end
+of the line.  It's like doing "d$" to delete the text and then "a" to start
+Insert mode and append new text.
+
+
+SHORTCUTS
+
+Some operator-motion commands are used so often that they have been given a
+single letter command:
+
+	x  stands for  dl  (delete character under the cursor)
+	X  stands for  dh  (delete character left of the cursor)
+	D  stands for  d$  (delete to end of the line)
+	C  stands for  c$  (change to end of the line)
+	s  stands for  cl  (change one character)
+	S  stands for  cc  (change a whole line)
+
+
+WHERE TO PUT THE COUNT
+
+The commands "3dw" and "d3w" delete three words.  If you want to get really
+picky about things, the first command, "3dw", deletes one word three times;
+the command "d3w" deletes three words once.  This is a difference without a
+distinction.  You can actually put in two counts, however.  For example,
+"3d2w" deletes two words, repeated three times, for a total of six words.
+
+
+REPLACING WITH ONE CHARACTER
+
+The "r" command is not an operator.  It waits for you to type a character, and
+will replace the character under the cursor with it.  You could do the same
+with "cl" or with the "s" command, but with "r" you don't have to press <Esc>
+
+	there is somerhing grong here ~
+	rT	     rt    rw
+
+	There is something wrong here ~
+
+Using a count with "r" causes that many characters to be replaced with the
+same character.  Example:
+
+	There is something wrong here ~
+			   5rx
+
+	There is something xxxxx here ~
+
+To replace a character with a line break use "r<Enter>".  This deletes one
+character and inserts a line break.  Using a count here only applies to the
+number of characters deleted: "4r<Enter>" replaces four characters with one
+line break.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.3*	Repeating a change
+
+The "." command is one of the most simple yet powerful commands in Vim.  It
+repeats the last change.  For instance, suppose you are editing an HTML file
+and want to delete all the <B> tags.  You position the cursor on the first <
+and delete the <B> with the command "df>".  You then go to the < of the next
+</B> and kill it using the "." command.  The "." command executes the last
+change command (in this case, "df>").  To delete another tag, position the
+cursor on the < and use the "." command.
+
+			      To <B>generate</B> a table of <B>contents ~
+	f<   find first <     --->
+	df>  delete to >	 -->
+	f<   find next <	   --------->
+	.    repeat df>			    --->
+	f<   find next <		       ------------->
+	.    repeat df>					    -->
+
+The "." command works for all changes you make, except for the "u" (undo),
+CTRL-R (redo) and commands that start with a colon (:).
+
+Another example: You want to change the word "four" to "five".  It appears
+several times in your text.  You can do this quickly with this sequence of
+commands:
+
+	/four<Enter>	find the first string "four"
+	cwfive<Esc>	change the word to "five"
+	n		find the next "four"
+	.		repeat the change to "five'
+	n		find the next "four"
+	.		repeat the change
+			etc.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.4*	Visual mode
+
+To delete simple items the operator-motion changes work quite well.  But often
+it's not so easy to decide which command will move over the text you want to
+change.  Then you can use Visual mode.
+
+You start Visual mode by pressing "v".  You move the cursor over the text you
+want to work on.  While you do this, the text is highlighted.  Finally type
+the operator command.
+   For example, to delete from halfway one word to halfway another word:
+
+		This is an examination sample of visual mode ~
+			       ---------->
+				 velllld
+
+		This is an example of visual mode ~
+
+When doing this you don't really have to count how many times you have to
+press "l" to end up in the right position.  You can immediately see what text
+will be deleted when you press "d".
+
+If at any time you decide you don't want to do anything with the highlighted
+text, just press <Esc> and Visual mode will stop without doing anything.
+
+
+SELECTING LINES
+
+If you want to work on whole lines, use "V" to start Visual mode.  You will
+see right away that the whole line is highlighted, without moving around.
+When you move left or right nothing changes.  When you move up or down the
+selection is extended whole lines at a time.
+   For example, select three lines with "Vjj":
+
+			  +------------------------+
+			  | text more text	   |
+		       >> | more text more text    | |
+	selected lines >> | text text text	   | | Vjj
+		       >> | text more		   | V
+			  | more text more	   |
+			  +------------------------+
+
+
+SELECTING BLOCKS
+
+If you want to work on a rectangular block of characters, use CTRL-V to start
+Visual mode.  This is very useful when working on tables.
+
+		name		Q1	Q2	Q3
+		pierre		123	455	234
+		john		0	90	39
+		steve		392	63	334
+
+To delete the middle "Q2" column, move the cursor to the "Q" of "Q2".  Press
+CTRL-V to start blockwise Visual mode.  Now move the cursor three lines down
+with "3j" and to the next word with "w".  You can see the first character of
+the last column is included.  To exclude it, use "h".  Now press "d" and the
+middle column is gone.
+
+
+GOING TO THE OTHER SIDE
+
+If you have selected some text in Visual mode, and discover that you need to
+change the other end of the selection, use the "o" command (Hint: o for other
+end).  The cursor will go to the other end, and you can move the cursor to
+change where the selection starts.  Pressing "o" again brings you back to the
+other end.
+
+When using blockwise selection, you have four corners.  "o" only takes you to
+one of the other corners, diagonally.  Use "O" to move to the other corner in
+the same line.
+
+Note that "o" and "O" in Visual mode work very different from Normal mode,
+where they open a new line below or above the cursor.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.5*	Moving text
+
+When you delete something with the "d", "x", or another command, the text is
+saved.  You can paste it back by using the p command. (The Vim name for
+this is put).
+   Take a look at how this works.  First you will delete an entire line, by
+putting the cursor on the line you want to delete and typing "dd".  Now you
+move the cursor to where you want to put the line and use the "p" (put)
+command.  The line is inserted on the line below the cursor.
+
+	a line		a line	      a line
+	line 2	  dd	line 3	  p   line 3
+	line 3			      line 2
+
+Because you deleted an entire line, the "p" command placed the text line below
+the cursor.  If you delete part of a line (a word, for instance), the "p"
+command puts it just after the cursor.
+
+	Some more boring try text to out commands. ~
+			 ---->
+			  dw
+
+	Some more boring text to out commands. ~
+			 ------->
+			    welp
+
+	Some more boring text to try out commands. ~
+
+
+MORE ON PUTTING
+
+The "P" command puts text like "p", but before the cursor.  When you deleted a
+whole line with "dd", "P" will put it back above the cursor.  When you deleted
+a word with "dw", "P" will put it back just before the cursor.
+
+You can repeat putting as many times as you like.  The same text will be used.
+
+You can use a count with "p" and "P".  The text will be repeated as many times
+as specified with the count.  Thus "dd" and then "3p" puts three copies of the
+same deleted line.
+
+
+SWAPPING TWO CHARACTERS
+
+Frequently when you are typing, your fingers get ahead of your brain (or the
+other way around?).  The result is a typo such as "teh" for "the".  Vim
+makes it easy to correct such problems.  Just put the cursor on the e of "teh"
+and execute the command "xp".  This works as follows: "x" deletes the
+character e and places it in a register.  "p" puts the text after the cursor,
+which is after the h.
+
+	teh     th     the ~
+	 x       p
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.6*	Copying text
+
+To copy text from one place to another, you could delete it, use "u" to undo
+the deletion and then "p" to put it somewhere else.  There is an easier way:
+yanking.  The "y" operator copies text into a register.  Then a "p" command
+can be used to put it.
+   Yanking is just a Vim name for copying.  The "c" letter was already used
+for the change operator, and "y" was still available.  Calling this
+operator "yank" made it easier to remember to use the "y" key.
+
+Since "y" is an operator, you use "yw" to yank a word.  A count is possible as
+usual.  To yank two words use "y2w".  Example:
+
+	let sqr = LongVariable * ~
+		 -------------->
+		       y2w
+
+	let sqr = LongVariable * ~
+			       p
+
+	let sqr = LongVariable * LongVariable ~
+
+Notice that "yw" includes the white space after a word.  If you don't want
+this, use "ye".
+
+The "yy" command yanks a whole line, just like "dd" deletes a whole line.
+Unexpectedly, while "D" deletes from the cursor to the end of the line, "Y"
+works like "yy", it yanks the whole line.  Watch out for this inconsistency!
+Use "y$" to yank to the end of the line.
+
+	a text line   yy	a text line	       a text line
+	line 2			line 2		p      line 2
+	last line		last line	       a text line
+						       last line
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.7*	Using the clipboard
+
+If you are using the GUI version of Vim (gvim), you can find the "Copy" item
+in the "Edit" menu.  First select some text with Visual mode, then use the
+Edit/Copy menu.  The selected text is now copied to the clipboard.  You can
+paste the text in other programs.  In Vim itself too.
+
+If you have copied text to the clipboard in another application, you can paste
+it in Vim with the Edit/Paste menu.  This works in Normal mode and Insert
+mode.  In Visual mode the selected text is replaced with the pasted text.
+
+The "Cut" menu item deletes the text before it's put on the clipboard.  The
+"Copy", "Cut" and "Paste" items are also available in the popup menu (only
+when there is a popup menu, of course).  If your Vim has a toolbar, you can
+also find these items there.
+
+If you are not using the GUI, or if you don't like using a menu, you have to
+use another way.  You use the normal "y" (yank) and "p" (put) commands, but
+prepend "* (double-quote star) before it.  To copy a line to the clipboard: >
+
+	"*yy
+
+To put text from the clipboard back into the text: >
+
+	"*p
+
+This only works on versions of Vim that include clipboard support.  More about
+the clipboard in section |09.3| and here: |clipboard|.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.8*	Text objects
+
+If the cursor is in the middle of a word and want to delete that word, you
+need to move back to its start before you can do "dw".  There is a simpler way
+to do this: "daw".
+
+	this is some example text. ~
+		       daw
+
+	this is some text. ~
+
+The "d" of "daw" is the delete operator.  "aw" is a text object.  Hint: "aw"
+stands for "A Word".  Thus "daw" is "Delete A Word".  To be precise, the white
+space after the word is also deleted (the white space before the word at the
+end of the line).
+
+Using text objects is the third way to make changes in Vim.  We already had
+operator-motion and Visual mode.  Now we add operator-text object.
+   It is very similar to operator-motion, but instead of operating on the text
+between the cursor position before and after a movement command, the text
+object is used as a whole.  It doesn't matter where in the object the cursor
+was.
+
+To change a whole sentence use "cis".  Take this text:
+
+	Hello there.  This ~
+	is an example.  Just ~
+	some text. ~
+
+Move to the start of the second line, on "is an".  Now use "cis":
+
+	Hello there.    Just ~
+	some text. ~
+
+The cursor is in between the blanks in the first line.  Now you type the new
+sentence "Another line.":
+
+	Hello there.  Another line.  Just ~
+	some text. ~
+
+"cis" consists of the "c" (change) operator and the "is" text object.  This
+stands for "Inner Sentence".  There is also the "as" (a sentence) object.  The
+difference is that "as" includes the white space after the sentence and "is"
+doesn't.  If you would delete a sentence, you want to delete the white space
+at the same time, thus use "das".  If you want to type new text the white
+space can remain, thus you use "cis".
+
+You can also use text objects in Visual mode.  It will include the text object
+in the Visual selection.  Visual mode continues, thus you can do this several
+times.  For example, start Visual mode with "v" and select a sentence with
+"as".  Now you can repeat "as" to include more sentences.  Finally you use an
+operator to do something with the selected sentences.
+
+You can find a long list of text objects here: |text-objects|.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.9*	Replace mode
+
+The "R" command causes Vim to enter replace mode.  In this mode, each
+character you type replaces the one under the cursor.  This continues until
+you type <Esc>.
+   In this example you start Replace mode on the first "t" of "text":
+
+	This is text. ~
+		Rinteresting.<Esc>
+
+	This is interesting. ~
+
+You may have noticed that this command replaced 5 characters in the line with
+twelve others. The "R" command automatically extends the line if it runs out
+of characters to replace.  It will not continue on the next line.
+
+You can switch between Insert mode and Replace mode with the <Insert> key.
+
+When you use <BS> (backspace) to make correction, you will notice that the
+old text is put back.  Thus it works like an undo command for the last typed
+character.
+
+==============================================================================
+*04.10*	Conclusion
+
+The operators, movement commands and text objects give you the possibility to
+make lots of combinations.  Now that you know how it works, you can use N
+operators with M movement commands to make N * M commands!
+
+You can find a list of operators here: |operator|
+
+For example, there are many other ways to delete pieces of text.  Here are a
+few often used ones:
+
+x	delete character under the cursor (short for "dl")
+X	delete character before the cursor (short for "dh")
+D	delete from cursor to end of line (short for "d$")
+dw	delete from cursor to next start of word
+db	delete from cursor to previous start of word
+diw	delete word under the cursor (excluding white space)
+daw	delete word under the cursor (including white space)
+dG	delete until the end of the file
+dgg	delete until the start of the file
+
+If you use "c" instead of "d" they become change commands.  And with "y" you
+yank the text.  And so forth.
+
+
+There are a few often used commands to make changes that didn't fit somewhere
+else:
+
+	~	change case of the character under the cursor, and move the
+		cursor to the next character.  This is not an operator (unless
+		'tildeop' is set), thus you can't use it with a motion
+		command.  It does works in Visual mode and changes case for
+		all the selected text then.
+
+	I	Start Insert mode after moving the cursor to the first
+		non-blank in the line.
+
+	A	Start Insert mode after moving the cursor to the end of the
+		line.
+
+==============================================================================
+
+Next chapter: |usr_05.txt|  Set your settings
+
+Copyright: see |manual-copyright|  vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: