I was exposed to vi several years ago.  It made me ever so thankful for the nice people who developed emacs.


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
I was exposed to vi several years ago.  It made me ever so thankful for the nice people who developed pico.

On 8/10/2012 15:38, ChasM Marshall wrote:
  Linux users should try vi in a terminal;

$ vi        (now type in the vi command ":help 42")

<esc>
:
h
e
l
p
 
4
2
<Enter>

         (And you may need to know how to gracefully quit)

<esc>
:
q
<Enter>

$

The escape-colon sequence is a toggle between command line mode and edit mode.
Personally I've always felt that vi came from another galaxy... and I press <insert> once to begin every edit.

  (-:  Chas.M.  :-)



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