On Monday 09 April 2007 17:07, David Brodbeck wrote:
> With all seriousness, sometimes when you're setting up a new system, or
> recovering from some sort of disaster, vi is all you've got. So it's
> worthwhile to at least learn the basics.
Yes ...
... and the main thing (seriously) to remember is that there really are
only
a very few *basics* to vi. Yes, whole text books have been written about the
tool... but there really are only about six mode keystrokes (i a o d y p)
that need to be memorized, and there are really only about two commands (x q)
that must be memorized, and then there are the cursor movement keys
( h,j,k,l ) the search key (/) and the mode switch key (ESC) and that's all
there is to it... sortof...
Oh yeah, if you're a real man you'll also know how to do search and
replace
incorporating regular expressions 'n such... but that's another story... and
not to scare anybody away.
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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