THIS IS A HISTORICAL FILE DATED ABOUT MARCH 1993
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				vi EDITOR

			    NETSIVI BEN-AMOTS

vi editor is VERY UNfriendly.  Also needs special KERMIT install for

PC-terminals (not for tektronix).  To write press the key i.  Now write your

text, WITHOUT USING THE ARROWS, yet you may use the BS BACKSPACE key.  When

completed, or for corrections, press CTRL-3 (press CTRL key, and BEFORE

removing your finger from the CTRL key, press with a finger of the other hand

the 3 key.) In PC-terminals, use ESC instead CTRL-3 (after special KERMIT

installation; ask me - Netsivi).  In rainbows press F11 instead ESC or CTRL-3.

You should hear a beep.  If not, press CTRL-3 (or ESC, or F11) again.  Now you

heard the beep.  If you want to correct, locate the right place with the

arrows.  Remember to use the arrows only after you heard the beep.


To enter text, press the i key once, and then write the text.  Then - CTRL-3

(or ESC, or F11) until you hear the beep.  To delete a character, locate it,

then press the x key once.  To add a line below the current line, press the

key o once.  To delete the current line, locate it, then press the key d

TWICE.


Long text: CTRL-f means roll page Forward; CTRL-u means roll page backward.


When your text is completed, press CTRL-3 and hear the beep, then press :

that is press SHIFT, and BEFORE removing your finger, press with a finger of

the other hand the :  key.  You are now at the bottom of the screen.  Now

write wq, and press the RETURN key.


You may want to send or edit a letter that you have written previously with

your favorite editor (ASCII, please), or it can be your new computer program

written for FORTRAN or C compilers, or your paper in an ASCII file.  NOT THE

BINARIES, PLEASE!!!  To do it:


Repeat the above procedure, but when you enter vi, DO NOT PRESS THE i KEY.

Press : (SHIFT with : together.)  You are at the bottom of the screen. Now

write:

r /u/yourloginname/yourfilename      and press the RETURN key.

Remember, small r.

Remember to replace to your real login name and file name.

Remember to give the full path to your file. VERY EASY TO FORGET! DON'T FORGET!

Done correctly, you see the first page on the screen.  Otherwise, it says it

cannot find the file.

Now, CTRL-3 (or ESC, or F11) (beep), SHIFT :, wq RETURN, just like above.