If you are in visual mode, typing the command:
line-numberG
will get you to that exact line. For example, if I wanted to edit line 456 in a file, I would type:
456G
to get to that line.
Vi (pronounced vee-eye), the standard screen-oriented editor provided with Unix operating systems, is the ``visual'' mode of the Ex line editor. Both Vi and Ex commands can be issued from within Vi. Source-The Internet.
the text is inputed in vi editor by pressing the i key, that mean get the insert permission into vi editor
If you go to the end of the current line and type J it will join the next line to the current.
There are two modes of 'vi' - the visual mode and the 'ex' (line mode) environment. By using the colon you are telling vi to switch to the line mode command environment used by 'ex' or 'ed'.
The 'vi' editor is a text editor; it can edit anything that is displayable ASCII text. You can edit a password in the password file using 'vi' (not recommended).
You don't. The 'tar' command has nothing to do with the 'vi' editor; it creates an archive files and the vi editor modifies the content of a file.
vi file name
FromCommand Mode :set nu Display line numbers
Your question is uncleear; every time you start the 'vi' editor you get another process.
'vi' is the standard text editor for Unix. You use it to edit content of a text file.
Unclear question - 'vi' is a utility
vi text editor is a standard text editor found in almost every flavor of Linux, it is the most preferred text editor by most Linux professionals, other text editors include nano and pico are also decent substitutes for the vi editor