Love it or hate it, vi is the text editor many grow to love. Vi is powerful, configurable and widely available - not just for Unix, clones exist for many platforms.
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  • Vim
    Official site of the popular vi clone. Includes project news, documentation, versions information, and downloads.
  • The Berkeley Vi (Nvi) Editor Home Page
    Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD).
  • The vi Lover's Page
    Overview covering history, versions of vi, manuals, FAQs and other sites of interest.
  • The ViPowered!
    Logo to use on web sites that are written and maintained with Vi.
  • An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi
    An excellent paper written by the author of vi, Bill Joy
  • Vi Tutorial
    A good vi tutorial and user guide aimed at engineering students.
  • Mastering the VI Editor
    A getting started guide for vi users.
  • Parth's VIM Page
    Vim syntax files for Itanium (IA-64) processor assemblers.
  • Vim macro page - homepage of Jos Van Riswick
    Lots of vim macros
  • The Elvis Text Editor Homepage
    The homepage of a popular vi clone available for many operating systems.
  • WinVi
    Free Notepad replacement highly compatible with the Vi editor issued under the GPL license.
  • BVI - Binary Visual editor
    The bvi editor is a display-oriented editor for binary files, based on the vi text editor.
  • Vim Cookbook
    It contains short recipes for doing many simple and not so simple things in Vim. You should already know the basics of Vim, although each command is explained in detail.
  • Vim and LaTeX
    Environment providing a comprehensive set of tools to view, edit and compile LaTeX documents using Vim.
  • The Vim commands cheat sheet
    A list of the most often used keys and commands in Vim. The cheat sheet covers tasks such as inserting and deleting text, searching and replacing, and editing blocks of text.
  • Naveen Chandra's Vim Page
    Vim scripts, tips and links to useful web pages.
  • TVO: The Vim Outliner
    TVO turns Vim into a full-featured text outliner. It has a menu, key mappings and a toolbar that mimic Microsoft Word's outline support. Included are scripts that produce HTML, Perl POD, and RTF.
  • The vi/ex Editor Tutorial
    Advanced tutorial for the vi/ex editor written by Walter A. Zintz first published in Unix World magazine.
  • Vi Reference
    An expanded version of Maarten Litmaath's vi Reference. More ex commands and more examples.
  • Vim as XML Editor
    If Vim is your main text editor, and if you do a lot of XML editing, then this mini howto might help you to make that even more fun.
  • Cream
    Cream is an easy-to-use configuration of the powerful, free, and famous Vim text editor for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.
  • Vim 5.6 Reference Guide
    Guide for Vim available in PDF format.
  • The Traditional Vi
    BSD ex/vi 3.7 ported to modern unix systems. The original vi source code, with a few necessary modernizations.
  • Vi Editor FAQ
    Information, tips, and tricks for learning and using vi.
  • Intellisense for Vim
    This site provides intellisense (Code Insight, Autocompletion) features for Vim.
  • Vi Survival Guide
    Tutorial for new Vi users.
  • Vimdoc
    Manuals, FAQs and links to tutorials for Vim users.
  • Graphical vi-vim Cheat Sheet
    Tutorial based on the graphical cheat sheet created for people learning vi or vim.
  • Dr Chip's Vim Page
    Contains C and Vim code which helps editing with the vim editor, including hints generation, text alignment, color schemes, network read/write, and spell checking.
  • Vi Editor Tutorial
    Complete vi editor tutorial with setting up features like auto complete, editing multiple files, regex etc.
  • Vim Quick Reference
    Nicely formatted for printing single page quick reference sheet in eight languages.
  • Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing
    Guidelines and hints for editing plain text more quickly and with fewer mistakes by Bram Moolenaar.
  • Dominique Vim Resources
    Syntax files and vim tools for Windows platforms.
  • Emacs for Vi users
    Basic equivalent emacs editor commands and operations for users of the vi editor.
  • Best of VIM Tips
    Essential gVim's commands and tips by David Rayner (zzapper).
  • Efficient Editing with Vim
    Article by Jonathan McPherson providing introduction to basic editing with Vim.
  • Vim Tips Wiki
    A place where users of the Vim editor can add their favorite commands, macros and other assorted tips to a common database.

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  • Mastering the VI editor
    URL : www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html
    ... guide for vi users. ... Mastering the VI editor (PDF format) Index. Introduction. Conventions ... The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers, but ...[2008/12/01]
  • vi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
    vi was derived from a sequence of UNIX command line editors, starting with ed. ... Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ...[2008/11/28]
  • Mastering the VI editor
    URL : www.emerson.emory.edu/services/editors/vi/vi.html
    The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers, but many beginning users ... The VI editor uses the full screen, so it needs to know what kind of ...[2008/01/11]
  • VI and VIM editor: Tutorial and advanced features
    URL : www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAdvanced_vi.html
    VI Linux editor tutorial of advanced features and tricks. ... The vim editor is an enhanced version of vi. ... Guide to VI and EX Text Editors" Hewlet Packard ...[2008/11/08]
  • Introduction to the Vi Text Editor
    URL : heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors
    ... popular editors on Unix systems is vi. ... I have used vi as the introductory editor here because it is so ... The vi editor differs from many others in ...[1998/09/21]
  • Vi Lovers Home Page
    URL : thomer.com/vi/vi.html
    Vi (pronounce: "vee eye", not "six", not "vye") is an editor. ... Discussion around Vi, VIM and other editors. A lot of questions, answers and nonsense. ...[2008/10/28]
  • The Berkeley Vi Editor Home Page
    URL : www.bostic.com/vi
    Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD)[2008/11/20]
  • UNIX 101: vi Editor
    URL : www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/unixgeneral/vi101.html
    UNIX 101: vi Editor. Question #1: Should you learn vi? ... vi is the standard Unix editor; you'll probably have to learn how to use it eventually. ...[2008/11/17]
  • Unix is a Four Letter Word: Vi editor
    URL : unix.t-a-y-l-o-r.com/Vi.html
    The Vi Editor. Overview ... Vi is the default editor for Unix. ... is possible to use other editors, but if you learn vi you can be confident that ...[2008/01/03]
  • An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor
    URL : heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html
    5 Other Editors, Including Other Versions of Vi ... I have tried all of the major Unix text editors, but have always come back to vi. ...[2006/10/26]
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