Michael Holt wrote: >> > OK, that makes sense. I'm new to vi but really enjoy the ability to move > around by keystroke and not have to mess with the mouse. I was wondering > if there was a sort of common way the *nix people have done that I haven't > seen yet; there are so many tools in the *nix world (TeX, LaTeX - I don't > really know what those things are - yet) Word processors are great, but I > tend to get a little lost in all the options they offer nowadays and there > just seems to be something nice about sitting in front of a translucent, > shaded Eterm window doing my work rather than an ugly gray desktop with > click-able 'buttons' everywhere that I never can remember which one is > which and with that I shall </rant> > > Thanks! Mike :-)
Yes, Mike so true. Many, many tools. And the best way to learn them is one at a time. That is why, in my *very* original post, I did not enumerate all the different ways to use the stdout process for different programs i.e. TeX, LaTeX, etc. As you have seen from some very good examples, provided by the list members here, there is always great flexibility in doing what you want to get done in UNIX/Linux. I would only caution you to learn vi as well as you can. Learn the keystrokes, insert mode, search patterns, bringing text in and out, etc. Once you feel good about these vi functions, you can take your data from vi to almost anywhere you want to go. Hey there is a jingo here: "where do you wanna go, today"? Truly, the choices are with us who work in UNIX/Linux. The web page I posted on vi is a very simple means for learning some basic vi stuff. Dr John, The night trippin UNIX guy (at least, I try to be)
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