By Walter Alan This tutorial series

The Vi/Ex Editor

By Walter Alan Zintz.

[Editor's Note: This tutorial series is a 'work in progress' and

will evolve over time.  We'll announce each new addition and

expand this table of contents.]

Part 1: Vi Editor Fundamentals

 Why Vi?

 A Heartwarming Edit

 The Plan Of This Ongoing Tutorial

 The Editor's Basic Concepts

 Search Patterns

 Searching From Where You Are Now

 The Find-Them-All Search

 Simple Search Patterns

 Metacharacters

 Table Of Search Pattern Metacharacters

 Character Classes.

Part 2: Line-Mode Addresses

 Line-Mode Addressing

 Addressing a Section of Text

 Now You Try It

Part 3: The Global Command

 The Details of Global Operations

 A Few More Uses for Global Commands

 Now You Give It A Try

Part 4: The Substitute Command

 Making Changes Within Lines

 A Few More Metacharacters

 Replacement-Pattern Metacharacters

 Other Uses for Substitution

 A Start on Script Writing

 Don't Lose Your Files

 Reader Feedback

Part 5: Take Control of Your Editing Environment

 The 'set' Command

 'set' Command Variables that Control How to Paint the Screen

 Playing 'tag'

 Making Your Environment Setup Automatic

Part 6: Addresses and Columns

 Screen-Mode Addresses

 A Few Address Principles

 Useful Addresses

 Editing in Columns

 Single-Character Columns

 Multi-Character Columns

Part 7: The Replacement Commands

 There's more to 'R' than to 'r'

 Quoting in Characters

 Readers Ask

 Tommy Spratlin

 Thai-Nghia Dinh

Part 8: Indent, Like a Typewriter

 Automatic Indentation

 Backing off Indentation

 Juggling a few ':set' options

 An Exercise for You

 Hard Tabs

 Enable and Disable 'autoindent'

 Next Time

Part 9: Take Charge with Macros

 Text-Insertion Macros

 What These Tools Do

 Working Principles

 Time for another exercise

 Command-Submode Macros

 ':map ' Macros

 Buffer Macros

 ':source' Macros

 Another Exercise

 Write and Read Macros

 In The Next Installment of this Tutorial

 SIDEBAR: The 'timeout' Function

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