z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

vi
arguments for the ab command, it displays the abbreviations that are
already defined. Abbreviated names cannot contain # or any other form of
punctuation.
[.] a[ppend][!]
Enters ex INSERT mode. Text is read and placed after the specified line.
An input line consisting of one period (.) leaves INSERT mode. If you
specify an address of zero, text is inserted before the first line of the file.
The current line indicator points to the last line typed.
If an exclamation mark (!) is specified, the autoindent option is toggled
during input. This command cannot be invoked from vi mode.
ar[gs] Displays the current list of files being edited. The current file is shown
enclosed by square brackets.
cd[!] path
Changes the current directory to path. If you omit path, cd sets the current
working directory to the directory identified by the HOME variable. If path is
a relative pathname, cd searches for it using the directories specified in the
CDPATH variable. If path is –, then cd changes to the previous working
directory. If you modified the buffer since the last write, vi displays a
warning message. You can override this behavior by including the
exclamation mark (!).
[.,.] c[hange][!] [count]
Deletes the line range given and then enters INSERT mode. If an
exclamation mark (!) is specified, autoindent is toggled during input. You
cannot invoke this command from vi mode.
chd[ir][!] [path]
Same as cd.
[.,.] co[py] addr [flags]
Copies the line range given after addr. If addr is zero, the lines are inserted
before the first line of the file. The current line indicator points to the last
line of the inserted copied text.
[.,.] d[elete] [buffer] [count] [flags]
Deletes the specified line range. After the line range is deleted, the current
line indicator points to the line after the deleted range. A buffer can be
specified as a letter a–z. If so, deleted lines are saved in the buffer with that
name. If an uppercase letter is specified for buffer, the lines are appended
to the buffer of the corresponding lowercase name. If no buffer name is
given, deleted lines go to the unnamed buffer.
e[dit] [!] [+line] [file]
Begins a new editing session on a new file; the new file replaces the old file
on the screen. This command is usually invalid if you have modified the
contents of the current file without writing it back to the file. Specifying an
exclamation mark (!) goes on to start a new session even you have not
saved the changes of the current session.
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You can specify line as either a line number or as a string of the form
/regexp or ?regexp where regexp is a regular expression. When line is a
line number, the current line indicator is set to the specified position. When
it has the form /regexp, vi searches forward through the file for the first
occurrence of regexp and sets the current line indicator to that line. ?regexp
is similar to /regexp except that vi searches through the file backwards. If
you omit line and do not specify a file, the value of the current line indicator
does not change. Otherwise, if a file is specified, the current line indicator is