vi commands are available in more places than you might realize. Ctrl-G, and / are just two examples.
Even on the command line you can use ctrl-a, and ctrl-e to go to the beginning and end of a line, which are emacs functions by default, but you can set it to use vi options, if you prefer. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Shumaker > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:30 AM > To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG > Subject: Re: I hate "info" (and "man") (and love them too) > > > Scott McClelland wrote: > > >I was refering to the subject - that you hate info and man. I know that > >sometimes you need more than the terse discription of the command, but I > >meant that navigating is easier, if you know some shortcuts. > > > > > > Probably so. But... ...vi commands? I mean, really! It's like coming > to a haystack covering an acre. > > > >I find that when man doesn't have what I need, I look for an example > >somewhere (maybe a HOWTO, or google, or a book), but it > generally works as a > >reminder for something you have used before, but don't remember > it's syntax. > > > > > > That is perhaps the best description of "man" I have heard. It is > excellent for review, or for those who are familiar with how it presents > ideas and such. But it rather lacks on giving newcomers (to a > particular command, or to "man" in general) an adequate leg up in many > cases. > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Shumaker > >>Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:50 PM > >>To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG > >>Subject: Re: I hate "info" (and "man") (and love them too) > >> > >> > >>Scott McClelland wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>You'll probably hate it less, if you start to use vi commands > >>> > >>> > >>for searching. > >> > >> > >>>G -- to go to the end of the document Capital-G > >>>/ -- To find a word use /, n, N (slash followed by search word, > >>> > >>> > >>n for next, > >> > >> > >>>N for previous) > >>> > >>>e.g. > >>>$ man ls > >>>/color<enter> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>"/, n, N" are probably about 50% of the commands in vi that I already > >>know. I use them often in man. I've been introduced to others but have > >>forgotten the ones I don't use often (which is most of them). But I > >>don't think learning vi commands are going to help me much. I'm not > >>sure what you're referring to by "it" when you say "You'll probably hate > >>'it' less..." since I talked about several different things that I hate. > >> > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
