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Date: 31 January 1992 Document Version: 3.2.4C Chapter 1 Introduction 1 About'this guide .................................................................................................................. 1 Documentation conventions ............................................................................................. 2 Locating manual pages ....................................................................................................... 4 Using online manual pages ...................................................................................... 4 The keyboard ........................................................................................................................ 6 Chapter 2 Creating, editing, and printing files 7 A vi tutorial ........................................................................................................................... 8 Entering the editor ...................................................................................................... 8 Inserting text ................................................................................................................ 9 Repeating a command ............................................................................................. 10 Undoing a command ............................................................................................... 10 Moving the cursor .................................................................................................... 11 Deleting text .............................................................................................................. 12 Searching for a pattern ............................................................................................ 14 Searching and replacing .......................................................................................... 16 Leaving vi ....................................................... ~ ........................................................... 17 Adding text from another file ................................................................................ 17 Leaving vi temporarily ............................................................................................ 18 Changing your display ............................................................................................ 18 Canceling an editing session .................................................................................. 19 Editing tasks ....................................................................................................................... 20 How to enter the editor ........................................................................................... 20 Moving the cursor .................................................................................... ;............... 20 Moving around in a file ........................................................................................... 23 Inserting text before the cursor .............................................................................. 23 Correcting typing mistakes .................................................................................... 24 Opening a new line .................................................................................................. 24 Repeating the last insertion .................................................................................... 24 Inserting text from other files ................................................................................ 24 Inserting control characters into text ................................................................... 28 Joining and breaking lines ...................................................................................... 28 Deleting a character ................................................................................................. 28 Deleting a word ........................................................................................................ 28 Table of contents v Deleting a line ............................................................................................................ 29 Deleting an entire insertion .................................................................................... 29 Deleting and replacing text .................................................................................... 30 Moving text ................................................................................................................ 32 Searching for patterns .............................................................................................. 35 Searching and replacing .......................................................................................... 36 Pattern matching ...................................................................................................... 38 Undoing a command ............................................................................................... 40 Repeating a command ............................................................................................. 41 Leaving the editor .................................................................................................... 41 Editing a series of files ............................................................................................. 42 Editing a new file without leaving the editor ..................................................... 44 Leaving the editor temporarily .............................................................................. 44 Performing a series of line-oriented commands ................................................ 45 Finding out what file you are editing ................................................................... 45 Finding out what line you are on .......................................................................... 46 Solving common problems ............................................................................................. 46 Setting up your vi environment ..................................................................................... 47 Setting the terminal type ......................................................................................... 48 Setting options with the set command ................................................................ 48 Displaying tabs and end-of-line ............................................................................ 49 Ignoring case in search commands ....................................................................... 50 Displaying line numbers ......................................................................................... 50 Printing the number of lines changed .................................................................. 50 Changing the terminal type ................................................................................... 50 Shortening error messages ..................................................................................... 50 Turning offwamings ................................................................................................ 51 Permitting special characters in searches ............................................................ 51 Limiting searches ...................................................................................................... 51 Turning on messages ............................................................................................... 51 Mapping keys ............................................................................................................ 52 Abbreviating strings 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