You guys work too hard.

Just type "vimtutor" on a command line to bring up the tutorial.
Takes 30-60 minutes (allegedly).

To access the the user manual once inside vim, type :help.

I admit that vi's a PITA when you don't know (or remember) it, but once 
you use it for a while, it's quite nice (for a text based app, IMHO).


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.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:23 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:03 pm, Jonathan Hohle wrote:
>>
>>>does anyone have a vi cheat sheet they find useful?  i've been trying
>>>to get into vi for a while, but have never taken the time to learn all
>>>the commands.  and when i do have to use a commandline editor always
>>>fall back on nano or pico (why does everyone have such a problem with
>>>those editors??)
>>>
>>>anyway, figured it wouldn't hurt to learn vi (especially when i come
>>>across a unix system that has nothing but).  so can anyone lend me a
>>>cheat sheet, or point me to something that will get me into vi?
>>
>>There are quite a few good ones.  One problem with specifying a specific one, 
>>though, is that each one has a different idea of what is essential.
>>
>>I suggest doing a google search for 'vi cheat sheet pdf'.  Adding the pdf 
>>helps since, more than likely, you will get a nicely formatted cheat sheet 
>>that you can just print off.
>>
>>Try as many of them as you like until you come across the one that looks to be 
>>at about your level.
>>
>>Kurt
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