Some books on editing with Vi.
Topics include:
Note: The fifth edition is already out of print:
Learning The VI Editor, Fifth Edition; Out of print Lamb, Linda ISBN 0937175676 O'Reilly & Associates; 10/1990; Softcover; 192 pages $19.95 (20% off list) See also: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/ Learning the Vi Editor - full description Learning the Vi Editor - short description Learning the Vi Editor - special offerThe sixth edition was published at the end of 1998:
Learning The VI Editor, Sixth Edition [980813] By Linda Lamb & Arnold Robbins 6th Edition November 1998 1-56592-426-6, Order Number: 4266 348 pages, $24.95 Learning the vi Editor; Lamb, Linda / Robbins, Arnold ISBN 1-56592-426-6 O'Reilly; 07/1998; Softcover; 272 pages (est.) September 1998 (est.) O'Reilly: $24.95 (est.) ComputerLiteracy: $19.95 (20% off list)There is also a translation to German now [990720]:
Textbearbeitung mit dem vi-Editor Linda Lamb & Arnold Robbins Deutsche Übersetzung von Volker Kurz & Imke Schenk 1.Auflage Juni 1999 3-89721-126-2, Bestellnummer: 272-30126 352 Seiten, DM59,-On the SuSE site it was nominated "Book of the Month" for August 1999:
Editing in a UNIX Environment: The Vi/Ex Editor; Lozy, Mohamed El ISBN 013235599X Prentice Hall; 02/1985; Softcover; $24.95
The Ultimate Guide To The VI And Ex Text Editors; ISBN 0-8053-4460-8 Hewlett-Packard Benjamin Cummings Corporation; 01/1990; Softcover; 319 pages $40.95
The VI User's Handbook; Attt ISBN 0139417338 Prentice Hall; 02/1986; Softcover; 66 pages $23.95 (20% off list)
Mastering Regular Expressions, First Edition; Jeffrey E. F. Friedl jfriedl@ora.com ISBN 1-56592-257-3 O'Reilly & Associates; 01/1997; Softcover; 368 pages $23.95 (20% off list) See also: http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/~jfriedl/regex/ Library of Congress entryNote: Recommended as some Vi commands make use of regular expressions a lot (most notably with the global command and the substitution command). Knowledge about regular expressions is useful not only for Vi, but also for awk, perl, and sed.
Vi-Referenzhandbuch Prentice Hall ISBN 3-8272-9533-5 Boor, Hutter, Pribas out of print ask for rerelease..