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- Choosing an Editor
- Starting pico and Dabbling with It
- Saving in pico
- Cutting and Pasting Text Blocks in pico
- Checking Spelling in pico
- Getting Help in pico
- Exiting pico
- Starting vi and Dabbling with It
- Saving in vi
- Adding and Deleting Text in vi
- Importing Files into vi
- Searching and Replacing in vi
- Exiting vi
- Starting emacs and Dabbling with It
- Using emacs Menus to Spell-Check
- Saving in emacs
- Exiting emacs
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Importing Files into vi
You can also merge multiple files in vi by reading additional files into the current one, as shown in Figure 4.13. Basically, all this means is that you insert one file into the file you're currently editing.
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Figure 4.13 Reading an additional file into the current one can make your editing tasks much easier.
To import files in vi:
vi hairyspider
At the shell prompt, type vi followed by the filename to start vi with, in this case, the hairyspider file.
:r filenameAt the point in the file where you want to import text, press
, then type :r and the filename you want to read into the file.
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vi also lets you read the output of commands into the file. For example, if you want to read the list of files in a specific directory into the file, use
:r !ls in command mode.