Learning the vi Editor
Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition By Linda Lamb, Arnold Robbins
November 1998
Pages: 348

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Table of Contents

  1. Basic and Advanced vi

    1. Chapter 1 The vi Text Editor

      1. Opening and Closing Files
      2. Quitting Without Saving Edits

    2. Chapter 2 Simple Editing

      1. vi Commands
      2. Moving the Cursor
      3. Simple Edits
      4. More Ways to Insert Text
      5. Joining Two Lines with J
      6. Review of Basic vi Commands

    3. Chapter 3 Moving Around in a Hurry

      1. Movement by Screens
      2. Movement by Text Blocks
      3. Movement by Searches
      4. Movement by Line Number
      5. Review of vi Motion Commands

    4. Chapter 4 Beyond the Basics

      1. More Command Combinations
      2. Options When Starting vi
      3. Making Use of Buffers
      4. Marking Your Place
      5. Other Advanced Edits
      6. Review of vi Buffer and Marking Commands

    5. Chapter 5 Introducing the ex Editor

      1. ex Commands
      2. Editing with ex
      3. Saving and Exiting Files
      4. Copying a File into Another File
      5. Editing Multiple Files

    6. Chapter 6 Global Replacement

      1. Confirming Substitutions
      2. Context-Sensitive Replacement
      3. Pattern-Matching Rules
      4. Pattern-Matching Examples
      5. A Final Look at Pattern Matching

    7. Chapter 7 Advanced Editing

      1. Customizing vi
      2. Executing UNIX Commands
      3. Saving Commands
      4. Using ex Scripts
      5. Editing Program Source Code

  2. Extensions and Clones

    1. Chapter 8 vi Clones Feature Summary

      1. And These Are My Brothers, Darrell, Darrell, and Darrell
      2. Multiwindow Editing
      3. GUI Interfaces
      4. Extended Regular Expressions
      5. Enhanced Tags
      6. Improved Facilities
      7. Programming Assistance
      8. Editor Comparison Summary
      9. A Look Ahead

    2. Chapter 9 nvi—New vi

      1. Author and History
      2. Important Command-Line Arguments
      3. Online Help and Other Documentation
      4. Initialization
      5. Multiwindow Editing
      6. GUI Interfaces
      7. Extended Regular Expressions
      8. Improvements for Editing
      9. Programming Assistance
      10. Interesting Features
      11. Sources and Supported Operating Systems

    3. Chapter 10 elvis

      1. Author and History
      2. Important Command-Line Arguments
      3. Online Help and Other Documentation
      4. Initialization
      5. Multiwindow Editing
      6. GUI Interfaces
      7. Extended Regular Expressions
      8. Improved Editing Facilities
      9. Programming Assistance
      10. Interesting Features
      11. elvis Futures
      12. Sources and Supported Operating Systems

    4. Chapter 11 vim—vi Improved

      1. Author and History
      2. Important Command-Line Arguments
      3. Online Help and Other Documentation
      4. Initialization
      5. Multiwindow Editing
      6. GUI Interfaces
      7. Extended Regular Expressions
      8. Improved Editing Facilities
      9. Programming Assistance
      10. Interesting Features
      11. Sources and Supported Operating Systems

    5. Chapter 12 vile—vi Like Emacs

      1. Authors and History
      2. Important Command-Line Arguments
      3. Online Help and Other Documentation
      4. Initialization
      5. Multiwindow Editing
      6. GUI Interfaces
      7. Extended Regular Expressions
      8. Improved Editing Facilities
      9. Programming Assistance
      10. Interesting Features
      11. Sources and Supported Operating Systems

  3. Appendixes

    1. Appendix A Quick Reference

    2. Appendix B ex Commands

      1. Command Syntax
      2. Alphabetical List of Commands

    3. Appendix C Setting Options

      1. Solaris 2.6 vi Options
      2. nvi 1.79 Options
      3. elvis 2.0 Options
      4. vim 5.1 Options
      5. vile 8.0 Options

    4. Appendix D Problem Checklists

      1. Problems Opening Files
      2. Problems Saving Files
      3. Problems Getting to Visual Mode
      4. Problems with vi Commands
      5. Problems with Deletions

    5. Appendix E vi and the Internet

      1. vi Web Sites
      2. Amaze Your Friends!
      3. Tastes Great, Less Filling
      4. vi Quotes

  1. Colophon

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