0x03. vi

Another text editor

After Emacs its time to play with vi

Resources

Basic vi commands

Learning Objectives

At the end of this project, you are expected to be able to explain to anyone, without the help of Google

General

• What is vi

• Who is Bill Joy

• How to start and exit vi

• What are the command and insert modes, and how to switch from one to the other

• How to edit text

• How to cut and paste lines

• How to search forward and backward

• How to undo

• How to quit vi

Copyright - Plagiarism

• You are tasked to come up with solutions for the tasks below yourself to meet with the above learning objectives.

• You will not be able to meet the objectives of this or any following project by copying and pasting someone else’s work.

• You are not allowed to publish any content of this project.

• Any form of plagiarism is strictly forbidden and will result in removal from the program.

Requirements

• All tasks must be done inside the sandbox Ubuntu 20.04

• The answer of a task must be in a specific file

• Each answer file must contain only the command to execute in Emacs for solving the task. Example: “What is the command to quit without saving changes?”-> the file should contain only :q!

Tasks

0. Create your answer directory

Navigate to /root and create a directory named 0x03_vi

1. Inserting

What is the command to insert text before the cursor?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x03_vi/inserting

You can validate if the format of your answer is correct by displaying the file information

root@hex:~# ls -l /root/0x03_vi/inserting -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Nov 11 04:34 /root/0x03_vi/inserting root@hex:~#

2. Cutting

What is the command to delete and cut the current line?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x03_vi/cutting

Tip:

How to Copy, Cut and Paste

3. Pasting

What is the command to paste the lines in the buffer into the text after the current line?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x03_vi/pasting

4. Undoing

What is the command to undo what you just did?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x03_vi/undoing

5. Exiting

What is the command to quit vi even though latest changes have not been saved for this vi call?

Write the answer into th file /root/0x03_vi/exiting

6. Beginning of the line

What is the command to move the cursor to the start of the current line?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x03_vi/beginning_of_the_line

7. End of line

What is the command to move the cursor to the end of the current line?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x03_vi/end_of_line