vim - Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor

To create a file
$ vim filename

To go Insert Mode
press i

Once the editor is in insert mode, start writing the content in the file.

To Save the file and exit from the editor
[Esc] + :wq
or
[Esc] + :x

To save the file but do not exit.
Esc + :w

To quit from the file without saving
Esc + :q!

h- move the cursor to the left
l- move the cursor to the right
k- move the cursor to up one line
j- moves the cursor to the down of one line
H- moves the cursor to the beginning of the screen
L- moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen
M- moves the cursor to the middle of the screen
G- moves the cursor to the end of the file
gg- moves the cursor to the start of the file



regards,
T.Dhanasekar