Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction to vi
• Basic Concepts and Terminology
• Starting and Ending a Session
• Cursor and Display Control
• Text Scrolling Commands
• Positioning Cursor Line in Display Window
• Searching for Text
• Searching one character in line
• Word Commands
• Sentence - Paragraph - Section
• Recovering Mistakes or Deleted Text
• Adding and Moving Text
  • Command Mnemonics
• Insert ASCII Control Characters in Text
• Deleting Characters, Lines and Words
• Deleting Sentence, Paragraph and Section
• Deleting to a Text Location in Line or File
• Replace and Change Text
• Repeating a Text Change Operation
• Shifting Lines Horizontally Left or Right
• Automatic Indenting
• Using Buffers
• Execute a Buffer
• Using Markers
• Global/Limited Search/Replace
• Editing Multiple Files
• Merging files
• Write Command
• Escaping to UNIX Shell
• Tag Files for Multiple Programs
  • Example of Fortran tag File
  • Example of C tag File
• Most Frequently Used Commands
• Editing with ex
  • Abbreviations as Typing Aids - ex
  • Append or Change Line of Text - ex
  • Insert text - ex
  • Join Lines on Single Line - ex
  • Yank Text for Copy Operation - ex
  • Map a Macro to a Key - ex
  • Move or Copy Lines to a New Location - ex
  • Delete Lines - ex
  • Edit Different File - ex
  • Print Lines Numbers - ex
  • Restore Yanked/Deleted Line Back in File - ex
  • Set/List Editor Option - ex
  • Input ex Command from File - ex
  • Undo Changes - ex
  • Editor Version Number - ex
• Configuring vi/ex Editor
  • Option Descriptions
• Regular Expressions
  • BOL and EOL in Regular Expression
  • Arbitrary Characters
  • Metacharacters Summary
• Shell Commands Used in Editing
• Advanced Editing and eve Comparison
  • Basic vi Commands
  • Advanced vi Applications
• APPENDIX: Quick reference.
• APPENDIX: Abbreviations used in the report
• Bibliography
• Contents