Lab7: vim visual mode


1. given the following text:

	one two three four five
	six seven @ eight nine
	123 456 789 123 456 789

	Your cursor is on the '@' character. use visual mode to:
	(you are encouraged to give multiple answers)

	a) delete eight and nine
	b) change three into tee
	c) replace both 789's with ###
	d) change four into upper case
	e) swap seven and eight
	f) delete the last 2 lines
	g) delete all 3 lines
	h) change one and six into XXX
	i) change the '@' and the characters above and below it into *
	j) delete the stars created in the previous exercise, including all characters to the right of them
	k) add a dash '-' and a space ' ' on the column between one and two

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1. I will provide some examples for each question

	a)	
		w v ee d
		w v ee x
		w v 2e d
		w v 2e x
		w v $ d
		w v $ x
		w v <end> d
		w v <end> x
		w ctrl-v shift-D
		w ctrl-v shift-X

	b)
		k v h d
		k v h x
		<up> v <left> d
		<up> v <left> x

	c)
		<down> v b r #
		<down> v iw r #
		<down> v b c ###
		j v b r #
		
		combine one of the above with any one of

		3w .
		3W .
		$ b .           (you can drop the b if first part contained "iw")
		3 shift-<right>
		3w v e r #
		3w v iw r #
		$ v b r #
		$ v iw r #

	d)
		k w v e U
		k w v e ~
		k w v iw U
		<up> shift-<right> v e U
		<up> w v e c FOUR

	e)
		b v e d ww v e p bb h P
		b v iw x 2w P l v e x 2b <left> P
		w v e d 2b v e p 3 <right> p

	f)
		shift-V <down> d
		shift-V <down> x
		v <down> shift-D
		v <down> shift-X

	g)
		shift-V <up> o <down> d
		v <up> o <down> shift-D
		v ip d                     (both v and d with or without shift)
		{j shift-V }k d
		{ <down> shift-V 2<down> x

	h)
		0w ctrl-v e k rX
		<up> 3b ctrl-v iw j rX
		- v iw c XXX <esc> + .

	i)
		<up> ctrl-v 2<down> r*
		ctrl-v koj r*
		j ctrl-v kk c* <esc>

	j)
		<up> ctrl-v 2<down> shift-D
		j ctrl-v kk $d
		ctrl-v koj 3e x

	k)
		b ctrl-v <up> o <down> shift-I - <space> <esc>
		2bek ctrl-v 2j shift-A <space> - ctrl-[
		Fxj ctrl-v kk shift-A <space> - <esc>