Learning the vi Editor

This book aims to teach you how to use the vi
editor, common to many Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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The above text is a little example of how the vi editor's screen looks.

Contents

• Getting acquainted
• Basic tasks
• Making your work easier
• Advanced tasks
• Details
• Vi clones
  • Vim
    • Basic navigation
    • Modes
    • Tips and Tricks
    • Useful things for programmers to know
    • Enhancing Vim
    • External Scripts
    • Vim on Windows
    • VimL Script language
  • vile
  • BusyBox vi
• vi Reference

Other sources of information:

• http://www.texteditors.org
• http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html
• An introduction to the vi editor
• Functions of VI editor

Acknowledgements