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Basic Commands

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There are over 100 commands in Neovim, and thankfully, you don't need to know all of them to use the text editor—just a few basic commands are enough.

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Copy and Paste in Neovim

Instead of using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V, Neovim uses y and p for copying and pasting lines:

yy - Copies an entire line in normal mode
y3 - Copies 3 lines in normal mode
y - Copies selected text in visual mode

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Deleting Lines

dd - Deletes a single line in normal mode
d3 - Deletes 3 lines in normal mode
d - Deletes selected text in visual mode

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Undo and Redo

u - Undo the last change
Ctrl + r - Redo the undone change

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Saving and Quitting

:w - Save the current file
:wq or ZZ - Save and quit
:q - Quit (only if no unsaved changes)
:q! or ZQ - Quit without saving changes

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Searching

/Linux - Search for 'Linux' (case-sensitive)
n - Go to the next found 'Linux'
N - Go to the previous 'Linux'

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