UNIX Hints & Hacks

Chapter 8. Editors

• 8.1 The Anatomy of ed & vi

• 8.2 The Six Steps to ed

• 8.3 Six Simple Steps to vi

• 8.4 Configuring vi Parameters

• 8.5 Abbreviating vi Commands

• 8.6 Creating Macros

• 8.7 Search and Replace

• 8.8 Other Places to Use vi

• 8.9 Editing Multiple Files

• 8.10 Edit, Run, and Edit Again

• 8.11 Reading STDOUT into vi

• 8.12 Using vi when tmp Is Full

This chapter does not provide an in-depth discussion of the ed and vi editors. There are already books specific to that subject, and there's information in every introductory UNIX book on the market. This chapter concentrates on telling you why you should use these editors and how you can best use them as an administrator to take full advantage of their capabilities to make your job a little ...