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Mastering vi: A Beginner's Guide to Efficient Text Editing

Learn the basics of vi text editor, its modes, commands, and key bindings to enhance your text editing skills. This guide covers vi's functionality such as file navigation, editing, and saving. Improve your efficiency with vi through hands-on practice exercises.

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Mastering vi: A Beginner's Guide to Efficient Text Editing

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  1. C151 Multi-User Operating Systems Editors

  2. Text Editors • Pico • Emacs • Xemacs – a GUI-based version of Emacs. • vi – a mostly terminal-based text editor, very reliable. • vim – (vi improved) – a GUI-based version of vi.

  3. vi • A text editor, written by Bill Joy in 1976. Short for Visual Interface. • It enables fast, simple, and effective text editing mostly based on simple key bindings. • It provides fast and convenient moving around files and between files. • One must learn a good number of commands to be proficient in vi.

  4. vi modes • vi works in two modes: insert mode and command mode. • Command mode: allows you to do global operations like saving the file, searching for a string and replacing it. • Insert mode: Everything you type in the text. • Vi is started with command mode • Switching modes • ifrom command mode to insert mode • Escfrom insert mode to command mode

  5. Vi Commands • Open a file (new or exitsting one) vi file_name • Save a file :w<Return> • Exit vi (without saving the file) :q!<Return> • Exit vi (and save the file) :wq<Return> :x<Return>

  6. Reading Assignment • Chapter 6

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