Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook

In this chapter, you learned how to use your first two full-fledged command-line applications in Linux, vi and emacs. Among other things, you learned

• How to start vi and emacs and create a new file

• How to navigate in vi and use the insert mode

• How to use a number of common emacs keystrokes

• How to use job control keystrokes, including Ctrl+Z to suspend a running process

• How to use the bg, fg, and jobs commands, which resume a job in the background, resume a job in the foreground, and list all currently existing jobs

In the next chapter, you put your new knowledge of command-line editors to work as you begin to create professional-quality documents at the command line!