Introduction

• A text editor
  • Nothing more, nothing less
• Fast
• Small
  • Can put on a rescue disk
• Originally written by Bill Joy
  • A co-founder of Sun
  • Had to use a 300 Baud terminal
• Lots of vi clones - e.g.
  • vim - Vi IMproved
  • Elvis
  • vile - Vi Like Emacs
• Lots now have X/Gnome front ends

Start simply with a few commands; learn new ones over time

Copyright Dr. David Alan Gilbert 2001. vitalk @ treblig.org - Hacked together with dsh