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Apple Training Series: Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1
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Apple Training Series: Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1

by Schoun Regan, - Ed.
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
18h 43m
English
Peachpit Press
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Appendix A. vi Reference

This is a quick reference to the command-line editor, vi. It is not required that you use vi; you can use any way possible to edit flat text file, such as one of the two other command-line editors that come with Mac OS X, emacs, or pico. The goal when editing command-line files is to not have a file extension on the end. GUI applications such as BBEdit and SubEthaEdit will also permit you to save files without an extension.

vi Editor

The vi editor has two modes:

• Command mode, which is used for entering commands

• Edit mode, which is used to type text

The a, A, i, I, o, O, c, C, and R commands put vi into edit mode. To return to command mode from edit mode, press Escape. When you are in edit mode, you will see the word ...

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