With vi, command mode uses the whole keyboard to specify editing commands. Only when you issue an insert command does the keyboard add text to the document. Most new vi users learn only a few basic ...

Control Firefox with Vim-style commands, à la the Unix text editor.

Linux is a versatile operating system that allows you to perform a standard Vi word search using different keys on your computer keyboard. This tutorial will list the different keys and functions that ...

Users relied on commands and keyboard-based navigation to interact with the editor. The limitations and idiosyncrasies of the ADM-3A influenced some of vi’s most distinctive characteristics.

A bug impacting editors Vim and Neovim could allow a trojan code to escape sandbox mitigations. A high-severity bug impacting two popular command-line text editing applications, Vim and Neovim ...

Recently, while helping Linux Journal convert its editorial process to use DocBook/XML for articles, I had occasion to convert some old Vim macros for use with the new process. The original macros ...

Useful commands for Linux beginners can help you get comfortable on the command line.

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems ...