Once you're in a Unix shell, opening a file in vi is as easy as typing the command vi and the name of the file. Let's say I want to open up the file commands.html, which is a list in HTML of vi commands. The file lives in my home directory (which is monkey:/usr/diva/), where I do all my Unix experimenting. After making sure I was in that directory, I'd type the following:
monkey:/usr/diva/> vi commands.html
and the file would be opened.
This is what I would see on the screen:
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>vi is fun!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#0000CC" link="#CC0000" vlink="#000000">
This is a list of the crucial keys in vi.
Remember: the escape key is your friend.
O means to go into insert tect mode one character to the right
r means to replace something
x means to delete something
x means to delete something
E means to revert to the last saved version
I means to insert text. This is what we use to begin typing
these four keys are used in edit mode: h j k l
w means to overwrite the last version
q means to quit without changing anything
</BODY>
</HTML>
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