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Learning the vi Editor

Errata for Learning the vi Editor

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page xiii
Line 14, change "indicate" to "indicates".

Anonymous   
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Page 7
line 8, (files checklist/opening.{ch,ap}),

delete the word 'either'.

 Anonymous   
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Page 16
line 6, delete the word 'either'.

Anonymous   
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Page 30
Seven lines from bottom, "ause" has been changed to "use".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 32
2nd paragraph

The 'space' has been changed to 'spacebar.'

Anonymous    Jun 01, 2001
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Page 34

Table 2-4, used to read:

"Append text at beginning of line"

it now reads:

"Append text at end of line"

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 40
"ignores punctuation"

has been changed to:

"includes punctuation as part of word"

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 55
table 4-2

Replace "+file" with "+ file". (The extra space is mandatory).

 Anonymous   
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Page 59
At the top, added appropriate italicization to command and file names.

Anonymous    May 01, 1999
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Page 66
line 11, "and" has been put in italics for emphasis.

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 75
In the example, "skip a change" has been moved down to the next line.

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 86
Eleven lines up, "This commands" has been changed to "This command".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 89
The last line of example 11

"To delete lines that contain whitespace but that aren't empty, ..."

has been changed to:

"To delete lines that contain only whitespace but not lines that are empty,..."

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2001
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Page 89
In item 13, the example and first paragraph have been changed to

:%s/\(.*[^&vis-space;][^&vis-space;]*\)&vis-space;&vis-space;*$/\1/

For each line, use \(.*[^&vis-space;][^&vis-space;]*\) to save
everything up to the final trailing spaces. This regular expression must
explicitly match at least one non-space ([^&vis-space;]) so that the
.* doesn't match everything on the line. Restore the saved text without
the spaces.

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2001
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Page 115
"that" has been deleted in the sixth line from the bottom.

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 117
In line 11, "the" has been inserted before "termcap".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 122
In the footnote at the bottom, "-s" has been changed to courier font

instead of italics, since it's an option.

 Anonymous    May 01, 1999
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Page 126

The third code sample has been changed to read:

.KS@@ .IP "ICON_IMAGE" 2n@@ Sets or gets ... image.@@ .KE
.KS@@ .IP "SERVER_SYNC" 2n@@ Synchronizes with ... mode.@@ .KE
.KS@@ .IP "TTY_ARGV" 2n@@ The ... vector, @@ that ... .@@ .KE
.KS@@ .IP "XV_LABEL" 2n@@ Specifies a ... icon's label.@@ .KE

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2001
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Page 127
add an index entry for "tab (see indentation)".

Anonymous   
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Page 127
9 lines up, "or separately as MKS Vi" has been deleted.

(They apparently don't sell it separately any more.)

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2001
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Page 129
In line 9, "noticable" has been changed to noticeable".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 135
11 lines up, "to either" has been changed to "either to".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 139
In line 3, "from either" has been changed to "either from".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 140
In lines 3 and 5, "repitition" has been changed to "repetition".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 141
In line 9, "or question marks" has been changed to

"or in question marks".

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 143
In the 2nd line, "ex" is now in italics since it is a command name.

Anonymous    May 01, 1999
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Page 146
2 lines up, "completion," has been changed to "completion;".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 153
The url in the second to last paragraph of the page

now reads:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4a.shar

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 162
The URL in the footnote at the bottom is no longer up-to-date

removed footnote.

 Anonymous    May 01, 1999
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Page 162
11 lines up (not counting footnote lines), "or . command"

has been changed to "or the . command".

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 190
last sentence

"...will be distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License (GPL)."

now reads

"...will be distributed under the terms of
perl's Artistic License."

(Please note: "perl's" is in command-style font)

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 1999
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Page 194
Just *before* the -u option, the following entry has been added

-t tag
Start editing at the specified tag.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2001
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Page 214
The end of first line of fifth entry (gq command) of table 11-11

"... no longer that what's set ..."

should be:

"... no longer than what's set ..."

 Anonymous   
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Page 224
line 3, "nd also" has been changed to "and also".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 226
line 5, "laying" has been changed to "lying".

Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 231
line 5, "mode, no" has been changed to "mode. No"

line 8, "mode, no" has been change to "mode. No"

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 255
2nd line of last paragraph, "semi-colon" has been changed to "semicolon"

for consistency with the rest of the book.

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 262

Four lines from the bottom, it read:

``x Move cursor to mark x.

It now reads:

`x Move cursor to mark x.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
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Page 267
3rd entry in table `Address Symbols'

The x and y in

x;y

have been set in Courier Italic.

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 270
Made "next" entry's font consistent with the "edit" entry font

Anonymous    May 01, 1999
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Page 274
Line 9 needs a minor wording fix: added "the".

Anonymous    May 01, 1999
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Page 295
line 16 (files checklist/opening.{ch,ap}),

delete the word 'either'.

 Anonymous   
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Page 299
The vi Lover's Homepage

http://www.thorner.com/thorner/vi/vi.html
is now
http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html

 Anonymous   
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Page 299

The last paragraph used to read:

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html

It now reads:

http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html

<Appendix E> This text has been added to the end of Appendix E:

Sven Guckes (vim) told us a nice quote from the Tigger's Song in
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too:
"The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful chaps
They're loaded with vim and vigor..."
^^^ ^^

 Anonymous    Aug 01, 2000
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Page 300
The vi Pages

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi
is now
http://www.saki.com.au/mirror/vi/index.php3

 Anonymous   
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Page 301
footnote, put a dash into "vice president".

Anonymous   
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Page 301
vi for Java Lovers

The vi Reference mugs can now be found at:

http://www.geekcheat.com/

 Anonymous   
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Page 301
Changed URL to

http://www.vireference.com/vimug.htm

although the old URL is still up and forwards to the new one.

 Anonymous    May 01, 1999