An easy, quick vi tutorial...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:57:44 -0400):

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:05:52PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> There's a difference between TECO commands and line noise?

While they may look the same to the untrained eye, TECO commands will do
something that you want, whereas line noise will probably do something
else.

Fortunately, enough time has elapsed since I last used TECO that the only
thing I remember is "eivideo" (followed by ESC or Enter, I forget which)
to enable full-screen editing mode.  And that's only because we had a
little jingle to go with it -- "Old McTECO had a file. E I VIDEO."  Sorry,
but that's burned into ROM, along with such things as the theme song for
"The Brady Bunch", or Sherman's and Mr. Peabody's voiceprints.

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