vi

visual display editor (UNIX)

Description:

The vi utility is a link to elvis, a vi-compatible editor. See elvis for details. A matching equivalent to the virec utility called elvrec is also available. See elvrec for details.

See also:

• elvis utility (visual display editor clone)
• elvrec utility (recover the modified version of a file after a crash)
• ctags utility (Generate tags files)
• qed utility (QNX2-style fullscreen Editor)
• sed utility (Stream editor)
• vedit utility (Fullscreen editor)
• Linda Lamb, Learning the vi Editor, O'Reilly and Associates, 1990