More information about vi
There are hundreds of Web pages
describing the use of vi. Here are some
pages that IT staff have found useful.
Mastering the vi editor
Originally published at the University of Hawaii at Manoa,
College of Engineering
This tutorial is a good next step. It
contains a fairly complete list of
features and instructions on how to
An Introduction to Display Editing
Bill Joy (with Mark Horton)
This document is the classic written
by Bill Joy, the author of vi, and
his colleague Mark Horton. Even
though it is quite complete, it is
still accessible to beginners.
Includes a good conceptual overview,
Graphical vi-vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial
viEmu's site recommended by IT staff to UD researchers.
- Linux vi and vim editor: Tutorial and advanced features
YoLinux.com describes their site as follows: "This vi tutorial is intended for those who wish to master and advance their skills beyond the basic features of the basic editor. It covers buffers, "vi" command line instructions, interfacing with UNIX commands, and ctags. The vim editor is an enhanced version of vi."
Maarten Letmaath and James Hu
This web site is a reference site,
not a tutorial one. It lists command
and insert mode key commands,
command-line (ex) commands, and
Lovers Home Page
Thomer M. Gil
This Web site contains a collection
of links to more information about
vi, its lore, and its variants.
SourceForge project maintained by Dan
This Web site consists of a
comprehensive collection of
documentation on Vim, the version of
vi ported to Microsoft Windows. Vim
works well on a Windows system. Since
Vim is an enhanced version of vi,
much of the documentation is still
useful to vi users.