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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 "Corrected".

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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page xiii
Line 14, change "indicate" to "indicates".

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

delete the word 'either'.

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

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

Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed Page 32
2nd paragraph

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

Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed 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 2000
Printed Page 40
"ignores punctuation"

has been changed to:

"includes punctuation as part of word"

 Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed Page 55
table 4-2

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

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

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

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

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

Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed Page 87
In example 2, the following parenthetical remark has been added

(The delimiter colons and the ex command colon are separate entities.)

 Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed 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 2001
Printed 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 2001
Printed Page 115
"that" has been deleted in the sixth line from the bottom.

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

Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed 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 1999
Printed 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 2001
Printed Page 127
add an index entry for "tab (see indentation)".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"or in question marks".

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

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

Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed 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 2000
Printed Page 162
The URL in the footnote at the bottom is no longer up-to-date

removed footnote.

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

has been changed to "or the . command".

 Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed 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 1999
Printed Page 194
Just *before* the -u option, the following entry has been added

-t tag
Start editing at the specified tag.

 Anonymous  Jan 2001
Printed 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 
Printed Page 224
line 3, "nd also" has been changed to "and also".

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

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

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

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

for consistency with the rest of the book.

 Anonymous  Aug 2000
Printed 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 2000
Printed Page 267
3rd entry in table `Address Symbols'

The x and y in

x;y

have been set in Courier Italic.

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

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

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

delete the word 'either'.

 Anonymous 
Printed 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 
Printed 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 2000
Printed 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 
Printed Page 301
footnote, put a dash into "vice president".

Anonymous 
Printed Page 301
vi for Java Lovers

The vi Reference mugs can now be found at:

http://www.geekcheat.com/

 Anonymous 
Printed 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 1999