vi
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vi is a screen-oriented text editor.
Contents
History
- 1978: visual mode of line editor ex by Bill Joy
- May 1979: included in 2BSD (ex 2.0)
- Jun 1979: ex/vi 2.7
- Aug 1980: ex/vi 3.5
- Oct 1981: ex/vi 3.7
OS/2 Implementations
Clones
OS/2 editors that offer some vi compatibility
- Preditor/2 - vi keyboard mappings, window layout and more
Publications
- August Hansen: vi - The UNIX Screen Editor - Brady 1986, ISBN 0-89303-928-4
- Lamb: Learning the vi Editor (4th edition) - ISBN 0-937175-17-X
- Lamb; Robbins: Learning the vi Editor (6th edition) - O'Reilly 1998