Skip to content

Counts ​

Some Vi commands which do not accept a count now accept one

p ​

P ​

Given counts, text will be yanked (in Vi’s sense) that many times. Thus 3 p is the same as p p p.

o ​

O ​

Given counts, that many copies of text will be inserted. Thus o a b c ESC will insert 3 lines of ‘abc’ below the current line.

/ ​

? ​

Given a count n, n-th occurrence will be searched.