Preface; Scope of This Book; How the Material Is Presented; What You Need to Know Before Starting; Comments and Questions; Safari® Books Online; About the Previous Editions; Preface to the Seventh Edition;Basic and Advanced vi; Chapter 1: The vi Text Editor; 1.1 A Brief Historical Perspective; 1.2 Opening and Closing Files; 1.3 Quitting Without Saving Edits; Chapter 2: Simple Editing; 2.1 vi Commands; 2.2 Moving the Cursor; 2.3 Simple Edits; 2.4 More Ways to Insert Text; 2.

5 Joining Two Lines with J; 2.6 Review of Basic vi Commands; Chapter 3: Moving Around in a Hurry; 3.1 Movement by Screens; 3.2 Movement by Text Blocks; 3.3 Movement by Searches; 3.4 Movement by Line Number; 3.5 Review of vi Motion Commands; Chapter 4: Beyond the Basics; 4.1 More Command Combinations; 4.

2 Options When Starting vi; 4.3 Making Use of Buffers; 4.4 Marking Your Place; 4.5 Other Advanced Edits; 4.6 Review of vi Buffer and Marking Commands; Chapter 5: Introducing the ex Editor; 5.1 ex Commands; 5.2 Editing with ex; 5.3 Saving and Exiting Files; 5.

4 Copying a File into Another File; 5.5 Editing Multiple Files; Chapter 6: Global Replacement; 6.1 Confirming Substitutions; 6.2 Context-Sensitive Replacement; 6.3 Pattern-Matching Rules; 6.4 Pattern-Matching Examples; 6.5 A Final Look at Pattern Matching; Chapter 7: Advanced Editing; 7.1 Customizing vi; 7.

2 Executing Unix Commands; 7.3 Saving Commands; 7.4 Using ex Scripts; 7.5 Editing Program Source Code; Chapter 8: Introduction to the vi Clones; 8.1 And These Are My Brothers, Darrell, Darrell, and Darrell; 8.2 Multiwindow Editing; 8.3 GUI Interfaces; 8.4 Extended Regular Expressions; 8.

5 Enhanced Tags; 8.6 Improved Facilities; 8.7 Programming Assistance; 8.8 Editor Comparison Summary; 8.9 Nothing Like the Original; 8.10 A Look Ahead;Vim; Chapter 9: Vim (vi Improved): An Introduction; 9.1 Overview; 9.2 Where to Get Vim; 9.

3 Getting Vim for Unix and GNU/Linux; 9.4 Getting Vim for Windows Environments; 9.5 Getting Vim for the Macintosh Environment; 9.6 Other Operating Systems; 9.7 Aids and Easy Modes for New Users; 9.8 Summary; Chapter 10: Major Vim Improvements over vi; 10.1 Built-in Help; 10.2 Startup and Initialization Options; 10.

3 New Motion Commands; 10.4 Extended Regular Expressions; 10.5 Customizing the Executable; Chapter 11: Multiple Windows in Vim; 11.1 Initiating Multiwindow Editing; 11.2 Opening Windows; 11.3 Moving Around Windows (Getting Your Cursor from Here to There); 11.4 Moving Windows Around; 11.5 Resizing Windows; 11.

6 Buffers and Their Interaction with Windows; 11.7 Playing Tag with Windows; 11.8 Tabbed Editing; 11.9 Closing and Quitting Windows; 11.10 Summary; Chapter 12: Vim Scripts; 12.1 What''s Your Favorite Color (Scheme)?; 12.2 Dynamic File Type Configuration Through Scripting; 12.3 Some Additional Thoughts About Vim Scripting; 12.

4 Resources; Chapter 13: Graphical Vim (gvim); 13.1 General Introduction to gvim; 13.2 Customizing Scrollbars, Menus, and Toolbars; 13.3 gvim in Microsoft Windows; 13.4 gvim in the X Window System; 13.5 GUI Options and Command Synopsis; Chapter 14: Vim Enhancements for Programmers; 14.1 Folding and Outlining (Outline Mode); 14.2 Auto and Smart Indenting; 14.

3 Keyword and Dictionary Word Completion; 14.4 Tag Stacking; 14.5 Syntax Highlighting; 14.6 Compiling and Checking Errors with Vim; 14.7 Some Final Thoughts on Vim for Writing Programs; Chapter 15: Other Cool Stuff in Vim; 15.1 Editing Binary Files; 15.2 Digraphs: Non-ASCII Characters; 15.3 Editing Files in Other Places; 15.

4 Navigating and Changing Directories; 15.5 Backups with Vim; 15.6 HTML Your Text; 15.7 What''s the Difference?; 15.8 Undoing Undos; 15.9 Now, Where Was I?; 15.10 What''s My Line (Size)?; 15.11 Abbreviations of Vim Commands and Options; 15.

12 A Few Quickies (Not Necessarily Vim-Specific); 15.13 More Resources;Other vi Clones; Chapter 16: nvi: New vi; 16.1 Author and History; 16.2 Important Command-Line Arguments; 16.3 Online Help and Other Documentation; 16.4 Initialization; 16.5 Multiwindow Editing; 16.6 GUI Interfaces; 16.

7 Extended Regular Expressions; 16.8 Improvements for Editing; 16.9 Programming Assistance; 16.10 Interesting Features; 16.11 Sources and Supported Operating Systems; Chapter 17: Elvis; 17.1 Author and History; 17.2 Important Command-Line Arguments; 17.3 Online Help and Other Documentation; 17.

4 Initialization; 17.5 Multiwindow Editing; 17.6 GUI Interfaces; 17.7 Extended Regular Expressions; 17.8 Improved Editing Facilities; 17.9 Programming Assistance; 17.10 Interesting Features; 17.11 elvis Futures; 17.

12 Sources and Supported Operating Systems; Chapter 18: vile: vi Like Emacs; 18.1 Authors and History; 18.2 Important Command-Line Arguments; 18.3 Online Help and Other Documentation; 18.4 Initialization; 18.5 Multiwindow Editing; 18.6 GUI Interfaces; 18.7 Extended Regular Expressions; 18.

8 Improved Editing Facilities; 18.9 Programming Assistance; 18.10 Interesting Features; 18.11 Sources and Supported Operating Systems;Appendixes; The vi, ex, and Vim Editors; Command-Line Syntax; Review of vi Operations; vi Commands; vi Configuration; ex Basics; Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands; Setting Options; Solaris vi Options; nvi 1.79 Options; elvis 2.2 Options; Vim 7.1 Options; vile 9.6 Options; Problem Checklists; Problems Opening Files; Problems Saving Files; Problems Getting to Visual Mode; Problems with vi Commands; Problems with Deletions; vi and the Internet; Where to Start; vi Web Sites; A Different vi Clone; Amaze Your Friends!; Tastes Great, Less Filling; vi Quotes;Colophon;.