Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xiii Line 14, change "indicate" to "indicates". |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 7 line 8, (files checklist/opening.{ch,ap}), |
delete the word 'either'. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 16 line 6, delete the word 'either'. |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 30 Seven lines from bottom, "ause" has been changed to "use". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 32 2nd paragraph |
The 'space' has been changed to 'spacebar.' |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 34 |
Table 2-4, used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 40 "ignores punctuation" |
has been changed to: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 55 table 4-2 |
Replace "+file" with "+ file". (The extra space is mandatory). |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 59 At the top, added appropriate italicization to command and file names. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 66 line 11, "and" has been put in italics for emphasis. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 75 In the example, "skip a change" has been moved down to the next line. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 86 Eleven lines up, "This commands" has been changed to "This command". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 89 The last line of example 11 |
"To delete lines that contain whitespace but that aren't empty, ..." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 89 In item 13, the example and first paragraph have been changed to |
:%s/\(.*[^&vis-space;][^&vis-space;]*\)&vis-space;&vis-space;*$/\1/ |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 115 "that" has been deleted in the sixth line from the bottom. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 117 In line 11, "the" has been inserted before "termcap". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 122 In the footnote at the bottom, "-s" has been changed to courier font |
instead of italics, since it's an option. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 126 |
The third code sample has been changed to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 127 add an index entry for "tab (see indentation)". |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 127 9 lines up, "or separately as MKS Vi" has been deleted. |
(They apparently don't sell it separately any more.) |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 129 In line 9, "noticable" has been changed to noticeable". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 135 11 lines up, "to either" has been changed to "either to". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 139 In line 3, "from either" has been changed to "either from". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 140 In lines 3 and 5, "repitition" has been changed to "repetition". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 141 In line 9, "or question marks" has been changed to |
"or in question marks". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 143 In the 2nd line, "ex" is now in italics since it is a command name. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 146 2 lines up, "completion," has been changed to "completion;". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 153 The url in the second to last paragraph of the page |
now reads: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 162 The URL in the footnote at the bottom is no longer up-to-date |
removed footnote. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 162 11 lines up (not counting footnote lines), "or . command" |
has been changed to "or the . command". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 190 last sentence |
"...will be distributed under the terms of the |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 194 Just *before* the -u option, the following entry has been added |
-t tag |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 214 The end of first line of fifth entry (gq command) of table 11-11 |
"... no longer that what's set ..." |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 224 line 3, "nd also" has been changed to "and also". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 226 line 5, "laying" has been changed to "lying". |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 231 line 5, "mode, no" has been changed to "mode. No" |
line 8, "mode, no" has been change to "mode. No" |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 255 2nd line of last paragraph, "semi-colon" has been changed to "semicolon" |
for consistency with the rest of the book. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 262 |
Four lines from the bottom, it read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 267 3rd entry in table `Address Symbols' |
The x and y in |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 270 Made "next" entry's font consistent with the "edit" entry font |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 274 Line 9 needs a minor wording fix: added "the". |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 295 line 16 (files checklist/opening.{ch,ap}), |
delete the word 'either'. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 299 The vi Lover's Homepage |
http://www.thorner.com/thorner/vi/vi.html |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 299 |
The last paragraph used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 300 The vi Pages |
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 301 footnote, put a dash into "vice president". |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 301 vi for Java Lovers |
The vi Reference mugs can now be found at: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 301 Changed URL to |
http://www.vireference.com/vimug.htm |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 |