There should be links to in-depth coverage of associated tools in each of these HOWTO documents. The vi resources would be a perfect start. Man pages should be linked as well.
A sidebar or side-note each time a specific tool (like vi) is first mentioned would be a nice way to let the reader fork off into deeper material at their whim. I should add that I'm going to have to take a break from documentation until I get the issues with my Syba 4-channel SATA controller worked out - it's a Silicon Image 3114 chipset, but I can't get the included Solaris 10 (11/06) drivers to attach to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Blake On 5/8/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/chapter/ch08.html > > On 5/8/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > Really? Wow, I've never heard of this before. I've never really been a > > vi guru by any stretch, but this is a real surprise. Sorry, everyone, > > and thanks for correcting me, Eric. I never bought the O'Reilly book, as > > I never pushed vi hard enough to need it. Between that, and some of the > > extensions being undocumented otherwise, it would explain my complete > > obliviousness to this. > > > > I'll have to look into this some. > > > > Rainer > > > > Eric Lowe wrote: > > > > >Solaris vi does have some non-standard extensions, such as a tag stack. > Some of them are undocumented. The O'Reilly vi book ( > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/index.html) has a nice comparison and a > description of the Solaris-specific features. > > > > > >- Eric > > > > > >----- Original Message ---- > > >From: Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> > > >To: Blake <blake.irvin at gmail.com> > > >Cc: Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>; > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > >Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2007 10:45:56 PM > > >Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] Re: 'cheat sheets' for common > administrative tasks > > > > > >The vi that comes with Solaris 10 is the standard, generic vi from Bill > > >Joy (the author, I believe). There is nothing Solaris-specific that I > > >know of, and that's comparing it to the vi from FreeBSD as well. > > > > > >You are correct about Linux; the distros/versions I've looked at all > > >linked the vi command to vim. It was actually a source of frustration > to > > >me, as vim does not behave like vi. > > > > > >Rainer > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > docs-discuss mailing list > > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- blake/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20070508/a7625f87/attachment.html>
