Question

vi editor has ____ named buffers.

(a) 2

(b) 4

(c) 26

(d) 5

This question was addressed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

I need to ask this question from Handling Multiple Files and Buffers topic in section Advanced Vi of Unix

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) 26

The best I can explain: vi editor stores the deleted text in an unnamed buffer. But this suffers some limitations. i.e. we can use only one buffer at one time. So vi uses 26 special named buffers which are named after the letters of the alphabet. For example,