ICS 54: Brief Notes on Chapter 10: Text Editing with vi

Selected References

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/44doc/usd/12.vi/paper.html

Bill Joy's An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi
The original tutorial. Hard to say that this isn't still the best.

http://ecn.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/

VI Tutorial from Purdue -- Neither too little nor much too much.

http://www.oac.uci.edu/help/manuals/uci.unix.guide/the_vi_editor.html

The vi portion of the UCI UNIX User Guide.

http://www.rru.com/~meo/useful/vi/vi.rm.html

A (too?) short reference manual.

http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/vi.html

A (too?) long reference manual.

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~totten/vi/

A (maybe just right) mid-size, mid-depth reference manual.

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/

The VI Page -- More than you ever need.

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

vi lovers home page -- Only slightly less encyclopaedic

Some Useful (Combinations of) Commands

3dd

Delete 3 lines

d3w

Delete 3 Words

d3}

Delete the rest of this paragraph and the next 2.

.

Repeat last command.

u

Undo last command. Note: uu leaves file unchanged.

yyp

Duplicate this line.

ddp

Transpose this line and the next.

xp

Transpose this letter and the next.

:g/^Hello/d

Delete any line beginning with Hello.

:v/^Hello/d

Delete any line not beginning with Hello.

:g/^Hello/s//HELLO/

Replace any Hello at the start of a line by HELLO

:.,.+4s=/=\=g

Replace all / by \ on this line and the next 4.

:g+^/+s+$+##+

Put ## at the end of any line which begins with /

:.!date

Replace this line by (the output of) the date command.

:.,$!spell

Replace the rest of this file by the words in it which spell says are not spelled correctly.

:w

Save all changes made thus far.

:wq

Exit saving changes.

:q!

Exit without saving changes.