On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:48 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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...
----
I remember something like lined on a PDP system and of course there was
the infamous edlin on early DOS. vi reminds me of those editors

I gave my cheat sheet a week or 2 ago...
cursors work
'i' to enter 'insert' mode
make changes
'esc' key to enter 'command' mode
':wq' write changes and quit
':q!' abort changes and quit

seems like that's all anyone needs to know - oh maybe one more thing...

echo "alias vi='emacs\n' >> ~/bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile

;-)

Craig

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