Re: vi cheat sheet

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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