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+These all work with at least [nvi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi) 1.79 and 2.1.3 (unicode). + +#### Yank / delete an arbitrary number of lines. + + 1) mark the first line: mk + 2) move to last line + 3a) yank: y'k + 3b) delete: d'k + 4) move to new line + 5) paste with P or p + +#### Join all lines in a file + + :%j + +#### When you need root permissions to write the file + + :w !doas tee % + +#### Diff the file on disk with the file in cache + + :w !diff -u % - + +#### Make a backup of the file on disk + + :! cp % %.bak + +#### Sort lines + + :%!sort + +#### Dedup lines + + :%!uniq + + blob - /dev/null blob + ff8d06f0d1a8711230f2917cc0b452174f7410e2 (mode 644) Binary files /dev/null and vi.jpg differ