How Solaris-specific is the vi that comes on Solaris 10? I believe the one I used on OS X is actually and alias to vim, and I'm guessing a lot of Linux distros use vim also. Vim is quite a bit different that vi in some ways (like the way it treats the arrow keys).
I'll see about linking to one of the docs you found. On 5/6/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > I think I lucked out, and found a couple decent pages fairly quickly. > Some of the ones I looked at weren't clear, too in-depth, or had other > issues that I thinki would make then less than great for a beginner. > > This one, though, seems to be the best, and seems aimed at total > newcomers: > http://www.rru.com/~meo/useful/vi/vi.intro.html > The authors provide mnemonic clues to the commands, which is helpful. > Going here: > http://www.rru.com/~meo/useful/vi/ > you can download text or PosrScript versions of it. > > I also liked this one, which has three sections equating with beginner, > intermediate, and advanced. There is a Tips & Tricks section at the end: > http://www.collaborium.org/onsite/romania/UTILS/vi/index.html > which comes from: > http://staff.washington.edu/rells/R110/ > > This vi link is very good but it's fairly comprehensive; it may be a > little too much so: > http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html > > or the one by Bill Joy: > http://locutus.kingwoodcable.com/jfd/vi.html > > This one's not too bad: > http://locutus.kingwoodcable.com/jfd/vi.html > > or: > http://unix.t-a-y-l-o-r.com/Vi.html > > Rainer > > > > -- blake/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20070506/9dd00840/attachment.html>
