How to Find Out More

One good way to start finding out more about the topics in this chapter is to read the Internet newsgroup comp.editors; it provides hundreds of messages of interest. You should also consult one of the many vi editor FAQs, available on the web at these-and other-sites:

• http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/

• http://www.roxanne.org/vi.html

• http://unlser1.unl.csi.cuny.edu/faqs/vi-faq/

There are several good printed references for the vi editor. Among the best (but most difficult to obtain) short reference manuals for the vi editor is:

• Bolsky, M.I. The VI User’s Handbook. Piscataway, NJ: AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1985.

A more accessible treatment can be found in these two books:

• Lamb, L., and A. Robbins. Learning the VI Editor. 6th ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1998.

• Robbins, A. VI Editor Pocket Reference. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1998.

You have several ways to find out more about emacs. The Internet newsgroup comp. emacs provides hundreds of articles focused on emacs. This newsgroup regularly has an updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list covering questions and answers having to do with GNU emacs. If you have a recent emacs distribution, the FAQs are distributed as etc/FAQ. The emacs FAQs are also available on the web at:

• http://www.faqs.org/faqs/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/

The GNU Emacs Manual, 15th ed., published in 1998 (for Emacs version 21) is available on the web at many sites, including:

• http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_1html

This manual is available as a book that can be purchased from the FSF (see the file etc/ORDERS for details) or purchased from the usual sources of computer books as this title:

• Stallman, R.M. GNU Emacs Manual for Version 21. 15th ed. Free Software Foundation, 2002.

• You may also want to consult these other worthwhile references for emacs:

• Cameron, D., E. Raymond, and B. Rosenblatt. Learning GNU Emacs. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1996.

• Schoonover, M.A., J.S. Bowie, and W.R. Arnold. GNU Emacs: UNIX Text Editing and Programming. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

There are quite a few ways to find out more about vim. The Internet newsgroup comp.editors contains a number of messages and useful information. In addition, many books on vi are beginning to contain chapters covering vim.

• There is currently only one good book in publication on vim, but more are being planned.

• Oualline, Steve. Vi iMproved-VIM. 1st ed. Indianapolis, IN: SAMS Publishing, 2001.

• Some useful web sites to consider for vim are:

• http://www.vim.org/ You can download the most recent version from this site

• http://υimdoc.sourceforge.net/contains FAQs, How-to’s, and online documentation

• http://u.webring.com/hub?ring=vim is the vim webring, which you can join

• There are also a few ways to find out more about pico.

• Sarwar, K., R. Koretsky, and S. Sarwar. UNIX: the Textbook. MA: Addison Wesley, 2004.

• This textbook includes a section on the pico editor as well as other editors. Some of the more useful web sites devoted to pico include:

• http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/whatis.html#2.2, which provides a short definition

• http://www.indiana.edu/~ucspubs/bl03/, which provides detailed information on pico

• http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/pico/index.html, which provides a pico tutorial

• http://www.sfu.ca/acs/howtos/e/e-2.htm, which is a helpful how-to-use page for pico

• http://www.itd.umich.edu/itdoc/r/r1168/, which describes how to use pico for UNIX as well as Windows systems.