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vi Editor Commands to Remember by Heart

The VI editor is a screen-based editor used by many Unix users. The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers, but many beginning users avoid using VI because the different features overwhelm them. The best way to learn is to remember these commands by heart, and print out this post and get a free shell account online to practice these and other Linux commands… There’s no better way than to experience things yourself.

Starting the VI Editor

The VI editor lets a user create new files or edit existing files. The command to start the VI editor is vi, followed by the filename. For example to edit a file called temporary, you would type

vi temporary

and then return. You can start VI without a filename, but when you want to save your work, you will have to tell VI which filename to save it into later. Read the rest of this entry