[TUHS] Vi Quick Reference card for 4.4 BSD

[Matt Day]

Yep, that's it.

The Vi Quick Reference Card dates back to the vi documentation in 2BSD:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2BSD/doc/vi
specifically the file vi.summary:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2BSD/doc/vi/vi.summary

Here's vi.summary in 4.4BSD:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.4BSD/usr/src/usr.bin/ex/USD.doc/vi/vi.summary
A decent PDF render: https://www.mpaoli.net/~michael/unix/vi/summary.pdf

On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 10:46 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Monday, June 3rd, 2024 at 9:31 PM, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Today after trying to decipher the online help for vim and neovim, I
> decided I'd had enough and I opted for nvi - the bug for bug vi compatible
> that I've used for so long on FreeBSD. It handles cursor keys, these days
> (my biggest gripe back when, now I'm not so sure it's an improvement). It's
> in-app help pages are about 300 lines long, the docs are just four of the
> 4.4 docs: An Introduction to Display Editing with VI, Edit: A tutorial, EX
> Reference Manual, and VI-EX Reference Manual - all very well written and
> understandable. It does everything I really need it to do without the
> million and one extensions and "enhancements" the others offer.
> >
> > In doing the docs research, I found many, many references to a "Vi Quick
> Reference card" in the various manpages and docs. I googled and googled
> some more and of course got thousands of hits (really many thousands), but
> I can't seem to find the actual card referenced. I'm pretty sure what I
> want to find is a scanned image or pdf of the card for 4.4bsd.
> >
> > Do y'all happen to know of where I might find the golden quick ref card
> for vi from back in the 4.4bsd days or did it even really exist?
> >
> > Will
>
> Perhaps this?  https://imgur.com/a/unix-vi-quick-reference-Nw0sfTH
>
> Pardon the quality and host, not in a place to do a more thoughtful scan
> and archival right now.  That was in a stack of documents I received some
> time ago, thrown in with stuff like V6 and KSOS manuals, some BSD docs,
> etc. so I presume it's also "official" fare.  That and no commercial
> indicators (TMs, copyrights, etc.)
>
> Let me know if that link doesn't work and I'll try and find my scanner and
> do it properly (scanner is MIA apparently...)
>
> - Matt G.
>
> P.S. I also have the AT&T branded version of this from 1984, it's a small
> 22 page flipbook with the same cover motif as early SVR2 binders (so the
> grey with some "deathstar" lines not the red with black accent dots).  Once
> I find my scanner I'll get that on the glass.
>
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