2/3     I'm that fresh out of college sysadmin who uses pico. I posted last
        week regarding my manager's comment on newbie sysadmin+pico. I'd like
        to learn vi to prove them that I'm a good sysadmin, pico or not. Where
        can I find a good vi reference guide and tutorial? Thanks.
        \_ The vi book from O'reilly is very good. --sly
        \_ If I recall correctly, vi was the very 1st interactive text editor
           ever (I don't consider ed to be fully interactive) and, like all
           great things, come from Berkeley.
             2 modes of operation
        \_ The vi book from O'reilly is very good. it'll help you from
             - Typing Mode
           light fu to advanced fu. --sly
             - Special Mode (default)
           \_Ugh, don't by an entire book just for that. In a nut shell
             2 modes of operation       [ plus some obscure ones ]
             ====================
             - Typing Mode              [ == "Insert Mode" ]
               \_ and hit esc to get back out of typing mode.
             - Special Mode (default)   [ == "Command Mode" ]
               i        insert and enter typing mode
               a        add and enter typing mode
               x        del char
               dd       del line
               ndd      del n lines
               nG       go to line n
               G        go to end of file
               o        add line ahead and enter typing mode
               O        add line before and enter typing mode
               yy       yank line
               nyy      yank n lines
               p        paste line(s) after dd or yy operation
               w        skip forward by words
               b        skup back by words
               :w       write file (use ! to overide)
               :q       quit (same w/ !)
               :wq      write + quit  =  ZZ
               :wfoo    write to file foo
               cw       change word
               dw       del word
               dnw      del n words
               /{reqexpr}       search for a regular expression
               \_ if he wants more fu, he will need the ora book.
                  he could have got your info from man vi --sly
                  \_ vi really _is_ more than just "a" and "i" and "w".
                     For instance, there was an article in an old
                     magazine on how to write self-modifying code in vi
                        su root -c 'rm -rf /bin/vi ;
                     macros, and Conway's Game of Life has also been
                     implemented that way.  -- schoen
                     \_ vi is a toy. Use a real editor:
                        su root -c 'rm -f /bin/vi ;
                                    cd /bin ;
                                    ln -s ../usr/local/bin/emacs vi'
                                    \_ mr sysadmin, why are you recursively
                                       deleting vi? plus, if you're doing
                                       system administration stuff you
                                       can get things done in a fraction of
                                       the time using vi over emacs. Plus
                                       vi works over a slow modem.  Emacs
                                       doesn't
                                       \_ I've run emacs over a 1200 baud
                                          modem. It works great. Using a
                                          single emacs, I can read mail,
                                          read news, surf the web, edit
                                          code and run a shell. Besides,
                                          vi is the visual editor, while
                                          emacs is EDitor macros, and we
                                          all know that ed is the standard
                                          editor.
               \_ hjkl for cursor movement