LearningtheviandVimEditors_TextProcessin.epub

Learning the vi and Vim Editors Arnold Robbins Elbert Hannah Linda Lamb Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo To my wife, Miriam, for your love, patience, and support. — Arnold Robbins, Sixth and Seventh Editions Special Upgrade Offer If you purchased this ebook directly from oreilly.com , you have the following benefits: DRM-free ebooks — use your ebooks across devices without restrictions or limitations Multiple formats — use on your laptop, tablet, or phone Lifetime access, with free updates Dropbox syncing — your files, anywhere If you purchased this ebook from another retailer, you can upgrade your ebook to take advantage of all these benefits for just $4.99. Click here to access your ebook upgrade. Please note that upgrade offers are not available from sample content. Preface Text editing is one of the most common tasks on any computer system, and vi is one of the most useful standard text editors on a system. With vi you can create new files or edit any existing text-only file. vi , like many of the classic utilities developed during the early years of Unix, has a reputation for being hard to navigate.......