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What is the difference between the insert and command modes of the vi editor?

Indrajit Bhagat — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:05:05 GMT

What is the difference between the insert and command modes of the vi editor?

Re: What is the difference between the insert and command modes of the vi editor?

Mridul Shrivastava — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:11:18 GMT

When you are in insert mode (after pressing i).. you can enter any text in the file..however if you press Escap (ESC) twice then you could execute commands (like dd, x etc) with in the file and moreover can be used for searching any text within file so on...

You can refer the following doc for more details:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90164/ch04.html

Re: What is the difference between the insert and command modes of the vi editor?

Sunny Jaisinghani — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:13:33 GMT

hi,

in the insert mode u actually edit your file contents by typing in the text

in the command mode you can do some operations on the contents of the file such as searching a string, copying, pasting etc. u can also set various functions.

Re: What is the difference between the insert and command modes of the vi editor?

Peter Godron — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:20:35 GMT

Hi,
please see:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.answers/msg/807f548026f00ae2?
"2.2 - What is the difference between Command mode & Insert mode?"