This hands-on tutorial will take you from Vi beginner or intermediate user to a power user, able to leap tall text buildings with a single bound. Unleash the full power of that blinking cursor, become more efficient at your job, and fame and fortune will surely follow. Most people use about 10% of what Vi is fully capable of. Awaken to your text editor’s full potential.

Who Should Attend This Presentation? Anybody that works on UNIX and Linux systems would benefit from fully learning Vi, an ubiquitous and standard editor.

Topics include:

• History and design principles
• The command language syntax
• All movement commands
• Many text alteration commands
• Working with registers (“clipboards”)
• Working with multiple files
• Undoing and redoing changes
• An introduction to the Vim editor

This is a hands-on workshop. Attendees should bring a laptop to follow along with the in-class exercises. Please download a copy of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” from Project Gutenberg, which we will use to practice Vi motion, editing, and text transformation commands.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11/pg11.txt