Vi Text Editor: Tutorial

 This tutorial was written as part of Marian Delp's thesis for Industrial Engineering.

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE VI EDITOR

    

2. ENTERING OR CALLING VI
   • Calling VI
   • Editing A New File
   • Editing An Existing File
   • Saving or Storing A File

    

3. EXITING VI
   • Exiting the Editor--Retaining Changes
   • Exiting the Editor--Discarding Changes
   • Exiting the Editor--Keeping Changes & Original Text

    

4. ORGANIZATION OF VI
   • Command Mode
   • Text Input Mode

    

5. POSITIONING TEXT ON THE SCREEN
   • Scrolling The Screen
   • Using The GOTO Command
   • Moving By Searching

    

6. POSITIONING THE CURSOR
   • Major Screen Movements
   • Minor Screen Movements
   • Moving Within A Line

    

7. TEXT INSERTION
   • Append Command (a,A)
   • Insert Command (i,I)
   • Open Command (o,O)
   • Read Command (:r)

    

8. CORRECTING TEXT
   • Delete Text (d,D)
   • Change Text (c,C)
   • Replace Text (r,R)
   • Erase Text (x,X)
   • Transposition Command (xp)
   • Undo Command (u,U)
   • Removing all ^M
   • Global search and replace

    

9. REARRANGING AND DUPLICATING TEXT
   • Copying Text And Moving The Copy
   • Deleting Text And Moving It
   • Named Buffers

    

10. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
    • Creating Line Numbers Copy
    • Lines And Sentences In VI
    • Joining Lines
    • Redrawing The Screen
    • Accessing The EX Editor
    • Repeating A Command
    • Temporarily Interrupting VI
    • Editing Multiple Files Using VI
    • Printing from VI

     

11. OPERATORS AND SCOPES

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