An easy, quick vi tutorial...

[Bob Stockler]

Mark Luljak wrote (on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:30:02PM -0400):

| Only Kenneth Brody would say something like:
| > Ever try TECO on a noisy phone line?  (Fortunately, neither have I.)
| 
| No, but I've tried emacs, vi, and pico on them.  :(  Things
| get...interesting.
| 
| > IIRC, the original (and many current) vi programs have a "redo", but
| > that's only because hitting "u" a second time undoes the undo.
| 
| Right.  Whereas vim has a bigger list of undo's (I -think- it's
| configurable, don't quote me on that), and the subsequent list of redos,
| both functions bound to different keys.

This got me interested in "vi" stuff . . .

  1 - I found I had VILEARN on my system.

  2 - I also found a later version of it by Googling "VILEARN" on
      the Worldwide Web.

  3 - I found VIM 7.1 to replace the VIM 7.0 on my Windows boxes.
      and VIM has a much more extensive tutor program (for those
      needing just an introduction or much more extensive courses).
      BTW, SCO OpenServer 6 has VIM on it.

  4 - Somethng else, but it's cocktail hour here in Derby City and
      I forget what it was.

Bob

PS - I use "mutt" as my MUA an "vi" to write/edit my messages.

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