Introducing the vi Text Editor
A text editor enables you to create and modify text documents that contain just the letters and characters that you can type on your keyboard. A word processor, on the other hand, not only allows text editing but also accommodates changing the presentation of that text by selecting the font size and style. Simple text files are extremely important under UNIX. With few exceptions, all UNIX system administration is ultimately done by editing text files that customize the system and control how it operates. Shell scripts and C programs are keyed in as text files by a programmer. Even Internet Web pages are simple text files with fonts, colors, and graphics indicated as textual directives to the Web browser.
vi is the ...
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