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Asked: 2026-05-13T10:21:32+00:00

I’m a C# developer who has just recently decided to expand my knowledge of

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I’m a C# developer who has just recently decided to expand my knowledge of the tools available to me. The first tool I’ve decided to learn is Vi/Vim. Everything has been going well so far, but there are a couple of questions I can’t seem to find the answer to:

  1. Lets say I wanted to yank a range of lines. I know there are many ways of doing so, but I would like to do it by line number. I figured it would be similar to how the substitute commands work, something like 81,91y. Is there a way to do this?

  2. I’m a little confused about the g command in normal mode. It seems to do a myriad of things and I can’t really determine what the g command does at its core. I’m confused on whether or not it’s a motion command or a kind of “catch all” for other commands ran through normal mode. Can someone please explain this or point me to a reference that gives a good explanation of the g command?

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    Yank lines 81-91

    :81,91y<enter>

    If your fingers don’t like to find the : and , keys, this would work as well (go to line 81, yank 11 lines)

    81gg11yy

    My only use of g is 5gg. To go to the 5th line. 22gg: 22nd line. As jimbo said, it’s really only a modifier for some other commands.

    For completeness, (http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Power_of_g) explains a lot of how g works in command mode.

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