CSCI 1302                  Software Development                     Summer 2008

                   Coverage of vi for the Midterm Exam


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


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  


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