Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

vi Web Sites

There are two primary vi-related web sites, the vi Lover’s Home Page, by Thomer M. Gil, and the Vi Pages, by Sven Guckes. Each contains a large number of links to interesting vi-related items.

The vi Lover’s Home Page

The vi Lover’s Home Page can be found at http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html. This site contains the following items:

• A table of all known vi clones, with links to the source code or binary distributions

• Links to other vi sites, including the Vi Pages, by Sven Guckes

• A large number of links to vi documentation, manuals, help, and tutorials, at a number of different levels

• vi macros for writing HTML documents and solving the Towers of Hanoi, and FTP sites for other macro sets

• Miscellaneous vi links: poems, a story about the “real history” of vi, vi versus Emacs discussions, and vi coffee mugs (see the section vi for Java Lovers)

There are other things there, too; this makes a great starting point.

The Vi Pages

The Vi Pages can be found at http://www.vi-editor.org.^[77] This site contains the following items:

• A detailed comparison of options and features among different vi clones

• Screenshots of different versions of vi

• A table listing many vi clones, as well as a list with contact information (name, address, URL) for the clones

• Pointers to several FAQ files

• Some cute quotes about vi, such as the one that opened this chapter

• Other links, including a link to the vi coffee mugs

The vi Lover’s Home Page refers to this web site as “the only Vi site on this planet better than the ...