
<p>For many users, working in the UNIX environment means using vi, a full-screen text editor available on most UNIX systems. Even those who know <i>vi</i> often make use of only a small number of its features.The <i>vi Editor Pocket Reference</i> is a companion volume to O'Reilly's updated sixth edition of <a href="/works/OL16931635W/">Learning the vi Editor</a>, a complete guide to text editing with <i>vi</i>. New topics in <i>Learning the vi Editor</i> include multi-screen editing and coverage of four <i>vi</i> clones: <i>vim</i>,<i>elvis</i>, <i>nvi</i>, and <i>vile</i>.This small book is a handy reference guide to the information in the larger volume, presenting movement and editing commands, the command-line options, and other elements of the <i>vi</i> editor in an easy-to-use tabular format.</p> <h2>Printing History</h2> <dl> <dt>January 1999</dt> <dd>First Edition.</dd> </dl>
**Arnold Robbins** is a professional programmer and technical author who has worked with Unix systems since 1980 and has been using Awk since 1987. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for Awk. Arnold is the maintainer of GNU Awk (gawk) and its documentation. He is the author of the fourth edition of [*Effective awk Programming*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL546344W) and the coauthor of [*Classic Shell Scripting*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL546333W) (both published by O’Reilly).
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