On Thursday 05 February 2004 14:13, Alvaro Zuniga spake: > Hi Everyone: > Last wee someone was asking about help pages for new users, here is a good > one. I needed to refresh my memory about some VIM commands and I though the > page for that was good. I hate VIM, particularly the jumping around between > command and editing mode. Do you ever get used to this?
Da. Vim is the best. For instance, once you learn how to navigate (dd deletes a line, $ jumps to the end of the line... put them together like so: d$ deletes to the end of the line), you'll never go back to a notepad-like editor again. Oh yeah, don't forget color-coding, which recognizes tags and syntax for most of the languages you'll encounter. HTML files have the tags highlighted for you, as does php, perl, bash... you name it. Tres cool. If you need a .vimrc file for color-coding, there's one in my /hacks/linux directory. Check to see if you have one first. You might be able to just turn it on in yours. I got a cheat-sheet I found somewhere that I've tacked to my wall next to my box that I used to refer to all the time. Little by little I learned, but now it's second nature to me. I used pico for years, but 1.5 years ago I decided to learn vi, so I quit pico cold turkey and forced myself to learn. Quite honestly, there are very few vi commands you need to know in order to duplicate pico's functionality. The only downside is when I'm using some other sort of editor (like the one that kmail defaults to, which I'm using now), I sometimes forget I'm not in vim and things get a little weird. I guess it's like using an old HP RPN caculator... it's a major struggle to use an arithmetic calculator, because I'm so used to RPN entry. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
