To edit a file with vi do:
vi file.txt
This is a bit misleading. On many systems, if you do
vi file.txt, you do indeed edit the file with
vi,
and
not with
vim. You discuss
vim, and while
vim has many similarities
with
vi, not everything you discuss will work in
vi. For instance, not on every system will the arrow keys work as expected in
vi. There's no syntax highlighting in
vi, nor does
vi have any perl hooks.
It has 4 MODES.
That's just an opinion. One could also argue that
vi only has command mode. But some commands take
arbitrary long arguments.
;-).
Abigail (using vi since 1984)
