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Author: Patricia Wilson
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Subject: Re: DON'T PANIC
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 <>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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