(You might initially see something different than the nearly empty screen described above. This topic will be covered in the next chapter. Do not be concerned about trying to type any text into the screen yet (although you will probably want to). You will notice that a (mostly) blank window opens after you type this command. This creates an empty file that will not have a name until you save its contents to disk (i.e., transfer the text you typed into it to your hard disk, floppy disk, etc. One is by just typing vi at the command line, like this: There are at least two ways to use vi to simultaneously create and open a new file. It can be convenient to add the icon for the terminal window to the launcher panel along the bottom of the screen, if it is not already there.) (In the case of Red Hat Linux, the terminal window can be opened by clicking on the icon of a red hat in the lower left hand corner of the screen, opening the System Tools menu and then selecting Terminal from that menu.

A terminal window is a text-only window, and it can usually be opened by clicking on an icon (small image) of a computer screen. When it is in GUI mode (usually KDE or Gnome), vi runs in a terminal window. Vi can be used both when your system is in text mode (the entire screen is devoted to text and there are no images) and when your system is in GUI mode (the screen contains windows, images and menus).

Cmd keeps opening and closing