January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
94 pages
1h 52m
English
Content preview from vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
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Internet Resources for vi
There are many resources and items of interest on the Internet related to vi and its clones. This section provides a brief overview of some of them:
- http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html
Thomer M. Gil’s vi Lover’s Home page. This is one of two main sites for vi, with links to many resources and other sites.
- http://www.vi-editor.org
Sven Guckes’s VI Pages. This is the second of the main vi sites.
- http://www.darryl.com/vi.shtml
A “This site is vi powered” logo, as shown in Figure 1-2.
- http://www.cafepress.com/geekcheat/366808
Concise vi command references, printed on coffee mugs, t-shirts, and more!
- http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/009/009.html
A nine-part tutorial on vi by Walter Zintz, originally published in Unix World magazine.
- http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000106
This is the start of the “vigor” story line in the User Friendly comic strip, which was the inspiration for the next item in this list.
- http://vigor.sourceforge.net
The source code for vigor.
Figure 1-2. vi powered!
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