Book description
For many users, working in the UNIX environment means using vi, a full-screen text editor available on most UNIX systems. Even those who know vi often make use of only a small number of its features.The vi Editor Pocket Reference is a companion volume to O'Reilly's updated sixth edition of Learning the vi Editor, a complete guide to text editing with vi. New topics in Learning the vi Editor include multi-screen editing and coverage of four vi clones: vim,elvis, nvi, and vile.This small book is a handy reference guide to the information in the larger volume, presenting movement and editing commands, the command-line options, and other elements of the vi editor in an easy-to-use tabular format.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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1. vi Editor Pocket Reference
- Introduction
- Conventions
- 1.1. Command-Line Options
- 1.2. vi Commands
- 1.3. Input Mode Shortcuts
- 1.4. Substitution and Regular Expressions
- 1.5. ex Commands
- 1.6. Initialization and Recovery
- 1.7. vi Options
- 1.8. Enhanced Tags and Tag Stacks
- 1.9. nvi—New vi
- 1.10. elvis
- 1.11. vim—vi Improved
- 1.12. vile—vi Like Emacs
- 1.13. Clone Source and Contact Information
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: vi Editor Pocket Reference
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 1999
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781565924970
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