For anyone who is looking for a smaller vi tutorial (vi is the predecessor of vim), or just to dip their toes into the water initially: Here's a short free vi

For anyone who is looking for a smaller vi tutorial (vi is the predecessor of vim), or just to dip their toes into the water initially: Here's a short free vi quickstart tutorial that I wrote a while ago: https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick With this tutorial you can learn some basics of vi (which is the predecessor of vi) and get up and running with it in an hour or two of practice. Learning vi commands (the subset that does not belong to vim as well) is useful because vi is probably more widely available than vim (since it is more lightweight and also comes installed by default with many Unix and Unix-like systems, and even some non-Unix-like systems. So, having vi skills in your toolkit, makes it possible for you to edit text files with ease on a very wide range of operating systems, without needing to learn a new editor for each one or every few ones. I first created it for some colleagues of mine at a company where I worked earlier. They were Windows system administrators who had been given additional charge of a few Unix business server boxes. I wrote it at their request. They used the tutorial, and then told me it helped them to come up to speed with the basics of vi quickly, which helped them manage those Unix boxes. I later published the tutorial in Linux For You magazine (now Open Source For You), an Indian print-format computer magazine. Enjoy, and feel free to give me feedback via Gumroad or the email in my HN profile.