Vi - Text Editing

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• Overview
• Starting vi
• Insert mode
• Command mode
  • Moving around
  • Deleting text
  • Saving and quitting
  • Copy, delete, and moving text
  • Search and replace
  • Undo
  • Repeat
• Vi reference
  • Notation for this reference
  • Move commands (See also Display commands)
  • Searching
  • Undoing changes
  • Inserting text
  • Deleting text
  • Changing text
  • Substitute replacement patterns
  • Remembering text (yanking)
  • Commands while in insert or change mode
  • Display commands (See also Move commands)
  • Writing, editing other files, and quitting vi
  • Macros
  • Switch and shell commands
  • Vi startup
  • The most important options
• Miscellaneous tips
  • Line deletions
  • Switching cases
  • Spell checking in vi
  • Additional search and replace
  • Removing blank lines
  • Writing from buffers
• Further reading