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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2009-08-26 10:00:38 -0500 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:41:17 +0200 |
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Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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diff --git a/slackbook/html/vi-opening-files.html b/slackbook/html/vi-opening-files.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..db79dd08a --- /dev/null +++ b/slackbook/html/vi-opening-files.html @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>Opening Files</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7" /> +<link rel="HOME" title="Slackware Linux Essentials" href="index.html" /> +<link rel="UP" title="Vi" href="vi.html" /> +<link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Modes" href="vi-modes.html" /> +<link rel="NEXT" title="Saving Files" href="vi-saving-files.html" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="NAVHEADER"> +<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<th colspan="3" align="center">Slackware Linux Essentials</th> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="vi-modes.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 16 Vi</td> +<td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="vi-saving-files.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="VI-OPENING-FILES" name="VI-OPENING-FILES">16.3 Opening +Files</a></h1> + +<p><tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt> allows you to open files from command mode as well as +specifying a file on the command line to open. To open the file <tt +class="FILENAME">/etc/lilo.conf</tt>:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<kbd class="USERINPUT">:e /etc/lilo.conf</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>If you have made changes to the current buffer without saving, <tt +class="COMMAND">vi</tt> will complain. You can still open the file without saving the +current buffer by typing <b class="KEYCAP">:e!</b>, followed by a space and the filename. +In general, <tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt>'s warnings can be suppressed by following the +command with an exclamation mark.</p> + +<p>If you want to reopen the current file, you can do so simply by typing <b +class="KEYCAP">e!</b>. This is particularly useful if you have somehow messed up the file +and want to reopen it.</p> + +<p>Some <tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt> clones (for example, <tt class="COMMAND">vim</tt>) +allow for multiple buffers to be open at the same time. For example, to open up the file +<tt class="FILENAME">09-vi.sgml</tt> in my home directory while another file was open, I +would type:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<kbd class="USERINPUT">:split ~/09-vi.sgml</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>The new file is displayed on the top half of the screen, and the old file is displayed +in the bottom half of the screen. There are a lot of commands that manipulate the split +screen, and many of these commands start to resemble something out of <tt +class="COMMAND">Emacs</tt> The best place to look up these commands would be the man page +for your vi clone. Note that many clones do not support the split-screen idea, so you +might not be able to use it at all.</p> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="vi-modes.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="vi-saving-files.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Modes</td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="vi.html" accesskey="U">Up</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Saving Files</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |