Appendix E. vi and the Internet

Sure, vi is friendly. It's just particular about who it makes friends with.

Being the "standard" UNIX screen editor since at least 1980 has enshrined vi firmly in UNIX culture.

vi helped build UNIX, and UNIX in turn built the foundation for today's Internet. Thus, it was inevitable that there be at least one Internet web site devoted to vi. This appendix describes some of the vi resources that are available for the vi connoisseur.

Where to start: There is surely no activity with more built-in obsolescence than publishing World Wide Web sites in a printed book. We have tried to publish URLs that we hope will have a reasonable lifetime.

In the meantime, the "Tips" section of the elvis documentation lists interesting vi-related web sites (that's where we started), and the USENET comp.editors newsgroup is also a good place to look.