Copying/cutting/pasting?? Don't you mean yanking/deleting/putting? =) fwiw, I *just* learned that from the aforementioned "chapter" on vi.
On 2/2/07, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu> wrote: > > If you're ever stuck in single user mode on a busted Solaris/AIX/HPUX > system, then vi is good to know. :) > > I use vi (really vim) cause it's powerful. Stuff like > copying/cutting/pasting by letters, words, or lines. change word instead > of having to backspace over it first. Regular expression search and > replace. Visual block editing when you have column formatted text. > > For GUI though, i'll sometimes use kate in KDE. It's probably the fastest > GUI editor, albeit still a bit quirky. > > Surprised no one mentioned gvim :) > > ray > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote: > > > Thank you, Michael. All the uber*-geeks are so condescending unless > > you live in vi, or to a lesser extent, emacs. I'm reading O'Reilly's > > _Fedora_Linux_ right now, and it has an entire chapter (okay, maybe > > just a big section of one) devoted to vi. I'm thinking, /who wants to > > learn vi?/ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
