The VI nano-HOWTO for the NewbieDoc Project

Romain Lerallut

  rom1@catsrule.garfield.com
        


Copyright © 2001 NewbieDoc project. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be found at the Free Software Foundation.

Revision History
Revision v0.0511 January 2002Revised by: rml
Applies D-Man's patch for typos and some vim stuff.
Revision v0.0430 May 2001Revised by: rml
Changes in the title page.
Revision v0.0324 May 2001Revised by: RL
One more tip, and the FDL License. VI Rules ever more!!
Revision v0.0223 February 2001Revised by: RL
Application of Tom Huckstep's patch and slight modifs. VI Rules even more!!
Revision v0.0111 January 2001Revised by: RL
First draft of the SGML-based version. VI Rules!!

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Credits
3. Starting VI
4. Quitting VI
5. The Command and Insert Modes
5.1. Cursor motions
5.2. Repeating commands
5.3. Inserting Text
5.4. Deleting Text
5.5. Yanking and Pasting
6. Global commands
6.1. Searching and Replacing
7. Miscellaneous Stuff