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## 1 A Survey of VIP

In this chapter we describe basics of VIP with emphasis on the features not found in Vi and on how to use VIP under GNU Emacs.

- Basic Concepts: Basic concepts in Emacs.
- Loading VIP: How to load VIP automatically.
- Modes in VIP: VIP has three modes, which are orthogonal to modes in Emacs.
- Differences from Vi: Differences of VIP from Vi is explained.