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Operating Modes

vi has three operating modes:

In the vi command mode, each key initiates an instruction. In the text input mode the keyboard functions like a typewriter. And in the ex command mode you can use the 'old' ex line editor to invoke ex commands.

As elsewhere in UNIX, all commands in vi are case-sensitive.



Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995