An easy, quick vi tutorial...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:53:44 -0400):

[...]
> Trust me, accidentally hitting capslock while in vi is guaranteed to screw
> things up royally,

Ever try TECO on a noisy phone line?  (Fortunately, neither have I.)

> and heaven help you if you're doing heads-down data
> entry rather than heads-up when this happens.  The vim version is a bit
> more foregiving with undo, but standard vi has more limitations on how much
> you can undo.  At least that's been my experience.  I thought the original
> didn't have a redo, either, where vim does.

IIRC, the original (and many current) vi programs have a "redo", but
that's only because hitting "u" a second time undoes the undo.

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