By Walter Alan Zintz .

[ Editor's Note: . This tutorial series is a ``work in progress'' and will evolve over time. We'll announce each new addition and expand this table of contents.]

Part 1: Vi Editor Fundamentals

• Why Vi?
  • A Heartwarming Edit
  • The Plan Of This Ongoing Tutorial
• The Editor's Basic Concepts
• Search Patterns
  • Searching From Where You Are Now
  • The Find-Them-All Search
  • Simple Search Patterns
  • Metacharacters
  • Table Of Search Pattern Metacharacters
  • Character Classes .

Part 2: Line-Mode Addresses

• Line-Mode Addressing
• Addressing a Section of Text
• Now You Try It

Part 3: The Global Command

• The Details of Global Operations
• A Few More Uses for Global Commands
• Now You Give It A Try

Part 4: The Substitute Command

• Making Changes Within Lines
• A Few More Metacharacters
• Replacement-Pattern Metacharacters
• Other Uses for Substitution
• A Start on Script Writing
• Don't Lose Your Files

Part 5: Take Control of Your Editing Environment

• The set Command
• set Command Variables that Control How to Paint the Screen
• Playing ``tag''
• Making Your Environment Setup Automatic

Part 6: Addresses and Columns

• Screen-Mode Addresses
  • A Few Address Principles
  • Useful Addresses
• Editing in Columns
  • Single-Character Columns
  • Multi-Character Columns

Part 7: The Replacement Commands

• There's more to ``R'' than to ``r''
• Quoting in Characters
• Readers Ask
  • Tommy Spratlin
  • Thai-Nghia Dinh

Part 8: Indent, Like a Typewriter

• Automatic Indentation
• Backing off Indentation
• Juggling some :set options
• An Exercise for You
• Hard Tabs
• Enable and Disable autoindent
• Next Time

Part 9: Take Charge with Macros

• Text-Insertion Macros
• What These Tools Do
• Working Principles
• Command-Submode Macros
• :map Macros
• Buffer Macros
• :source Macros
• Write and Read Macros
• In The Next Installment of this Tutorial
• SIDEBAR: The timeout Function