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9.1 Editing with vi

vi (short for `visual', and pronounced vee-eye) is a screen-oriented editing program used by many Unix users and, in particular, programmers. Regular users of vi find it a very convenient editing program, but it does take learning, and at first that will look unintuitive. Hopefully this guide is but one step towards hopping over that hurdle.



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