Learning 'vi'

[Randy Rathbun]

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Awesome! Thank you, Ed!  

I am a relative LINUX newbie and have never been able to figure out
how in the heck vi works... even when I was at UMKC using the VAX I
ended up in vi sometimes and never could get it to do anything, so I
ended up using joe (and I still do... guess those WordStar commands
just stuck with me).

This leads me to my question: 

Besides Corel WordPerfect for Linux, and the previously mentioned joe,
what does anyone recommend as a good editor under text mode or X? I
have tried emacs and find it to be a pain to use as well (sorry, but
as a self described geek I do not go for the 'computers have to be
hard to use' thing. Ya want hard, go use ENIAC or sit and flip
switches) ... To me this is the major downfall of LINUX as a viable OS
- - not that it is not getting to the point of being a system that "I
could install for my mom and she could use it," but one must admit,
there is a way yet to go. I am talking about world domination here....
not the nerd OS that it is now. 

Thoughts? Suggestions? Flames?

Randy

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On 9/15/99 at 12:25 PM Ed Allen wrote:

>http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/misc/vilearn.html
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>http://physics.ucsc.edu/tutor/vi.html
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