CSCI 1302                  Software Development                     Summer 2008

                Coverage of vi for the final examination 


You should know how to:

  start editing a file with vi

  save a file you are editing with the changes you've made
  
  exit an editing session without saving the changes you've made

  enter input mode and get back to command mode

  read in one file while editing another file

  search for the next occurrence of a string in the file you are editing

  search for the previous occurrence of a string in the file you are editing

  save text into a named buffer and later insert it before or after the cursor

  recover the file you were working on if vi died in the middle of editing it


You should know how the following operate in command mode:

  a, b, dd, e, G, h, i, j, k, l, o, O, p, r, u, w, x, yy,  

  A, D, d^, d$, dw, m, ^L, ^G, I, P, U, X, Y, y^, y$, yw


All of this is covered in the vi tutorial which is linked from the "resources"
page, but these topics are scattered a bit in that tutorial.