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vi Editor Pocket Reference

By
Arnold Robbins
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
January 1999
Pages:
80

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Please consider the latest edition.

  1. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition - July 2008
  2. vi Editor Pocket Reference - January 1999
  3. Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition - November 1998
  4. Learning the vi Editor, Fifth Edition - October 1990 (out of print)
Description
The vi Editor Pocket Reference is a companion volume to O'Reilly's updated sixth edition of Learning the vi Editor, presenting movement and editing commands, the command-line options, and other elements of the vi editor in an easy-to-use tabular format.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 vi Editor Pocket Reference

    1. Introduction

    2. Conventions

    3. Command-Line Options

    4. vi Commands

    5. Input Mode Shortcuts

    6. Substitution and Regular Expressions

    7. ex Commands

    8. Initialization and Recovery

    9. vi Options

    10. Enhanced Tags and Tag Stacks

    11. nvi—New vi

    12. elvis

    13. vim—vi Improved

    14. vile—vi Like Emacs

    15. Clone Source and Contact Information

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    Product Details
    Title:
    vi Editor Pocket Reference
    By:
    Arnold Robbins
    Publisher:
    O'Reilly Media
    Formats:
    • Print
    • Ebook
    • Safari Books Online
    Print Release:
    January 1999
    Ebook Release:
    February 2009
    Pages:
    80
    Print ISBN:
    978-1-56592-497-0
    | ISBN 10:
    1-56592-497-5
    Ebook ISBN:
    978-0-596-10372-9
    | ISBN 10:
    0-596-10372-7
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    About the Author

    1. Arnold Robbins

      Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has worked with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. He has been a heavy AWK user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of AWK. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for AWK. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He is also coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor. Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel.

      View Arnold Robbins's full profile page.

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