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- When you invoke Vim with an argument starting

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with plus sign Vim will interpret this

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argument as a command to execute.

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A common case is to start Vim in a specific line.

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So we do Vim hello.go + 8.

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And Vim will start at line number 8.

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This is like opening hello.go and then entering colon 8.

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Let's quit, colon Q, enter.

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However, commands are not limited to just line numbers.

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Say you're reading Sherlock Homes story

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and you'd like to resume, you remember that you stop

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when Count Kramm first came to visit Sherlock.

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What we can do is, let's clear the screen,

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vim sherlock.txt and then +.

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And then we're looking for Kramm

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and it will jump to the first occurrence

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when Kramm is in the text.

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You can specify several commands to

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automate some text processing with Vim.

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Let's quit this one and clear and have a look

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at a file called conway.txt.

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We see we have two empty lines at the beginning.

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So we can do Vim + 1, 2, which is the range from

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line 1 to line 2 and d, the action to delete.

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And then another command which is write and quit

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and then conway.txt.

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And now when we look at conway.txt again

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we see that the first two empty lines are gone.

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Using press commands you can automate a lot

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of text processing tasks with Vim.