On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:48:15PM +0200, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm learning to use vi. I find that the buffer operation is > different in vi than vim. For example, in vim, it is ':bn', ':bp', > and ':bd' to go to next and previous buffer, and to close a buffer. > Vi does not seem to have them implemented. > > Because of the popularity of vim, a lot of documents that I found > on-line are vim specific, like the example. I don't know how to > edit multiple files at once. I use ':e file' name and vi closes > current file before opening the new file.
our vi has multiple windows. :E new_file then ^W to move from file to file. :viusage will give you some help.
