Talk:Learning the vi editor/Basic tasks

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Hi. I think an explanation of how vi views a text file would greatly help users grok how the different modes/commands fit. Briefly:

  • A file contains lines of text
    • A line of text contains words
      • Words contain characters

Commands are executed based on one of the above three modes.

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