On Feb 1, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Bill Warner wrote:
> The vim tutorial is probably the best way I've seen to learn vi.  It is
> a plain text file that you edit in vi and just do what it says.  It'll
> teach you how to do all the basics by actually doing them to the
> directions.
>
> I found a copy here
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/courseware/cse1402/PRACS/WEEK_3/vi- 
> tutorial.txt
>
> Just save it to disk and then vi it.

I totally forgot about those!  That's a fantastic idea and, in fact,  
it's how I learned vi in the first place.

I remember my first experience with vi.  I had just started college and  
went to check my email for the first time (I was assured that email was  
just like the messages on the BBSes I frequented).  The MUA was 'elm',  
which was easy enough to figure out.  But then I went to write my first  
message.  The screen cleared and then was replace with a row of tilde's  
down the left side.  I waited for a bit since *obviously* something  
else was going to happen.  When nothing did, I figured that I had done  
something wrong and wanted to exit.  I hit Esc.  Ctrl-C.  Ctrl-Q.   
Nothing.  I then started typing random keys and somehow it started  
typing text (must have hit 'a' or 'i', I know now)... but then I  
couldn't figure out how to finish.  I had my message, but how do I  
quit?  I was too proud to ask anybody so I did the only thing I could.

I turned OFF the computer (a huge no-no) and quickly scurried out of  
the lab with my tail between my legs! :-)

Ah, those were the days...

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