On Sunday 12 May 2002 20:45, Joel Hammer wrote:
- That file name worked for me.
-
- To copy into vi, there are two ways.
-
- If you have your mouse working, just highlight the text with the mouse,
- go to vi, go into the insert mode, and right click or double click the
- stuff in.
-
- If no mouse, then, save your text to a file, go to vi:
- :r file
-
- If you are new to vi, you will find a lot of frustration at first, but,
now, - I prefer vi to anything else for text editing.
-
- There are a numerous short cuts which get around vi's seeming clumsiness.
- For example, to close up all those lines when you have to edit things and
- the lines are all ragged, the command
- :1,$ ! fmt
- is nice. Of course, you can map that to a function key. And it can be
- customized to do just what you want to do.
-
- If you are good at sed, you can use sed to filter your files while in vi:
- :1,$ ! sed s/Find/Replace/
- for example. If you mess up, u undoes any number of edits. [Cntrl]R undoes
- the undos.
-
- If you don't use vi, you are missing 1/2 the benefit of linux!
OK, thanks Joel. I ended up having to use the :r file command to get the two
scripts copied into vi, but hey - I got it done. Many thanks. I tested out
iSpell and it seems to be working fine now as well. That has helped me get a
lot closer to using Mutt as my e-mail client of choice :-)
Cheers,
Brian
