My favorite vi reference for ages is Maarten Litmaath's, available here:
https://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/vi.html
Contributors to that include Rich Salz and Diomidis Spinellis.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 8:33 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 12:32 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Do y'all happen to know of where I might find the golden quick ref card
>> for vi from back in the 4.4bsd days or did it even really exist?
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> Matt Day pointed you to the source, but in a small but slightly assuming
> addition. Your comment made me check my archives. Indeed, while the version
> on imgur.com is not golden, it is close.  The copies I have are printed on "sunflower
> yellow" card stock.
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> By the way, there was a firm called "Specialized Systems Consultants" of
> Seattle, Washington, that in the early 80s had a business printing and
> selling pocket reference cards and other SW and Services. They had a pretty
> good vi reference, which is ISBN 0-916151-19-0. It was printed on white
> card stock with black and blue letters for highlights and boxes around some
> of the text.
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> Also, while looking for the vi cards, I turned up two wonderful artifacts
> that I'll try to get scanned and added to TUHS at some point. When you
> purchased V7 from AT&T, you got one copy of the printed docs and a small
> "purple/red" 9"x3.5" flip-binding reference card that Lorinda Cherry
> compiled. Also, when DEC released V7M-11, they printed a small flip-binding
> 8"x4" reference called the "programmers guide" [AA-X7978-1C]—which is
> similar but different.
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