Two hopefully quick question to the vi gurus out there:<BR><BR>1. How to recall previous VI commands and edit them<BR><BR>2. How to replace a string with a string with a newline in it like this ...

I am writing a small crash course for vi/vim for our staff here, and I realized two things: 1. How little vi they knew in general 2. How little vi I knew changed since the 1990s I am having a great ...

Most people who are getting started with Linux or UNIX today already know how to use graphical WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors, with heavy use of the mouse, icons and pull-down menus.

If you prefer to use vi or vim for command-line editing, you can configure shells to use vi key bindings instead of emacs-style key bindings. Here's how. By default, most shells use emacs-style key ...