vi

[Thomas Scott]

Learning VIM was one of the best moves I ever made - It's not an
exaggeration to say that I use it for everything, to the point that one of
my first questions when evaluating any editor/software is "does it have vim
keybindings?" and if not, "can I *give it *vim keybindings..."

I still remember watching Phil show it to my intro to linux class for the
first time. I had been a longtime nano user, because, who wanted to (hjkll)
around? But the second that he showed us how it *could *work. I was sold.

- Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.scott at gmail.com


On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:08 PM Shaun Anderson via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> People will probably beat this to death, but take some time and go through
> the tutorials, and really learn it.  The ramp is a bit steep, but it is
> such an efficient editor.  You don't need to learn every esoteric way of
> doing things, but a dozen or more keys will have you zipping around in no
> time.
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 8:58 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> hmmmm,  when I go back to look at the file there is nothing in it
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:52 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks guys.  I should have done a web search. Sorry.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 11:49 AM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2021-09-10 08:36, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>> > how does  one save and exit with vi?
>>>>
>>>> (escape):wq or (escape)ZZ .  If you're going to try to use vim, you
>>>> should start by running vimtutor.  That will show you how to use all
>>>> the
>>>> basic features of the editor.
>>>>
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