This is the Vilearn interactive tutorial. It is by far the best way I've seen
to learn vi, or to learn more about vi. It has five secions.
Tutorial 1 -- Basic Editing
Tutorial 2 -- Moving Efficiently
Tutorial 3 -- Cutting and Pasting
Tutorial 4 -- Inserting Techniques
Tutorial 5 -- Tricks and Timesavers
You can learn vi from scratch, or if you already know vi, learn some real
useful editting tricks.
Download vilearn now:
Vilearn - Vi Interactive Tutorial
Bring up your "Save Link As" option on the above link to download
this file.
After you've uploaded this to a unix box, I suggest extracting it into
your /usr/local directory, if you have one. If so, everything will work
out of the box.
If you do not have /usr/local then you can extract it elsewhere
and it will create a bin and lib directory. Go into the bin directory,
edit the 'vilearn' script and change the lib path so that it points to
the location of the new lib directory. You'll probably want to add the
bin directory to the path your .profile or .cshrc if you plan on using
vilearn more than once. (I wouldn't suggest trying to take it all in, in one
setting)
The tutorial is meant to used on a 25 line display, so be sure to change to
that before you run it. It basically just brings up vi on one of a set of
files and lets you edit them as per the instructions IN the file. It sounds
simple, and it is, but it's very effective.